Gianluigi Buffon on Juventus v Real Madrid
Gianluigi Buffon spoke to UEFA.com for a Facebook Live event on Friday and afterwards sat down to speak about this week’s assembly with Real Madrid. Here’s what he had to say.
UEFA.com: You have faced Real Madrid so many times over a final few years. What are your memories of those contests?
Gianluigi Buffon: Clearly, confronting them again doesn’t fill us with fun since apparently we know that Real Madrid along with Barcelona and maybe [Manchester] City and Bayern, are a teams we never wish to come adult against. But it’s also loyal that reaching a quarter-finals of a UEFA Champions League means you’re automatically going to face a best, that’s normal. And again this time we’ll go for it, and we wish that past experiences, either certain or disastrous can assistance us.
UEFA.com: Before games like this, do we consider about prior meetings?
Buffon: No. In 23 years of personification football, I’ve realised that unequivocally mostly we simulate on a attainment though usurpation that a outcome was down to a propitious rebound or someone slipping up. We concentration too many on things on a representation when indeed it was usually predestine that dynamic a outcome.
UEFA.com: Among those encounters was that 2002/03 semi-final, that we won after we saved a penalty – what are your memories of that one?
Buffon: That was one of a biggest evenings I’ve ever had in black-and-white, since we had messed adult and mislaid a initial leg [2-1], and in a second leg opposite a Real Madrid side that had Ronaldo, Zidane and so many others, we had to try to overturn a situation. We played a diversion perfectly, we won absolutely [3-1], since over and above a outcome and a chastisement save we done from [LuÃs] Figo. During those 90 minutes, Juventus showed themselves to be higher to Real Madrid.
UEFA.com: … and afterwards there was a 2004/05 spin of 16 one with Marcelo Zalayeta’s idea in extra-time …
Buffon: That one was a some-more offset game, in a clarity that we won, though we won interjection to one sold moment, one impulse that rewarded us some-more than it did them.
UEFA.com: More recently there was a 2014/15 semi-final with Ãlvaro Morata’s essential idea in a second leg in Madrid …
Buffon: Yes, and that was positively an arise when we began as critical underdogs. we have to contend that it was a outrageous surprise, roughly a sporting spectacle given that a patrol like ours that was unequivocally clever away though didn’t nonetheless have a recognition to make a many of this was confronting a Real Madrid side that was personification in a fourth or fifth uninterrupted semi-final during a time. They had a knowledge of handling certain pressures and personification on certain stages that clearly done them favourites. However, it was us who achieved a considerable feat.
UEFA.com: How do we feel after losing a final to Real Madrid final year?
Buffon: It was diversion that we deserved to lose, and that they deserved to win. On nights like that we need to be lucky. We mislaid 4-1, we mislaid unequivocally badly, though we conceded dual goals since of implausible deflections, and to concur dual goals like that in a Champions League final, that certain as ruin doesn’t occur often. But, those dual goals aside, Real outclassed us.
HUEFA.com: How have Juve altered from final season?
Buffon: We’re unequivocally similar, even if some things have changed… Perhaps that in terms of a whole squad, we have got softened and some-more competitive. We have improved, though accurately how many we will have to see on a pitch.
UEFA.com: Does knowledge in this form of tie count for much?
Buffon: Real Madrid are entrance into this tie carrying won dual uninterrupted Champions League trophies, something that had never happened before. They have played in 7 semi-finals in a final 7 years. That is significant. The knowledge we benefit from these games gives we unshakeable certainty during whatever impulse in a game, in whatever situation. In [Serie A], we know that during any impulse we can spin a diversion in a favour. [Real Madrid] can do that in Europe.
UEFA.com: What contingency Juventus do to kick Real Madrid?
Buffon: Juventus have to play as we know we can. We don’t need to do anything else. That also means that we need a bit of fitness during certain moments. People forget about these things when a diversion is over and they see a result. we remember 3 years ago, when we played Real Madrid in Turin, one of a many critical and game-changing moments for us was when Real Madrid strike a bar from a bounce in a box. If it had left in, they would have left 2-1 up, and instead it finished 2-1 to us.
People forget these things. we know unequivocally good how it feels to get by to a subsequent spin or skip out since of some tiny detail. we wish Juventus will do a small things good and also get a small bit lucky.
UEFA.com: This is your 14th UEFA Champions League season. How do we feel about this competition?
Buffon: Great, in a clarity that we have managed to make 3 finals in 14 years. Getting to a final is a good result. Clearly, it’s not adequate for me because, for as prolonged as we continue playing, my aim will always be to win as many as possible. So, when there is a opportunity, a possibility and a wish of removing going in a competition, my aim is to win. And there is still time for that.
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