Thiago Motta has one more reason to smile

Thiago Motta extols the spirit of sacrifice of two elements in particular

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Archived Juventus’ rounded victory against Cagliari, a 4-0 victory useful to qualify the Bianconeri for the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia, Thiago Motta commented positively on his team’s performance, extolling in particular the spirit of sacrifice of Manuel Locatelli and Weston McKennie, deployed respectively as central defender and left-back. The availability of the two players is one more reason for the Bianconeri coach to smile.

"I ask availabilityà from my guys and they give it to me,” Motta commented in the press conference.

If one of my players is not convinced, I certainly don’t put him in trouble.

I asked Manu and Weston if they were willing to play in the roles in which you saw them tonight and they gave me maximum availability. The result è was definitely positive".

The HCL coach also had good words for Teun Koopmeiners and Dusan Vlahovic: "Koopmeiners is good everywhere, today he played in the midfield but he can also adapt at the back. His attitude è very good. Dusan, in turn, had another excellent game: he is always working hard, both in his role and participating in the defensive phase".

The Juventus coach was also satisfied with the goal scored by Nico Gonzalez, who returned to the field for a few minutes against Venezia and starred tonight with a goal and an assist in 25' of employment: "We needed his energy and qualities; now we also wait for the others who must return from injuries".