{"id":321053,"date":"2021-02-28T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=321053"},"modified":"2021-02-28T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T12:46:29","slug":"serie-a-pirlo-blames-his-players-after-1-1-draw-with-verona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=321053","title":{"rendered":"Serie A: Pirlo blames his players after 1-1 draw with Verona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Andrea Pirlo has blamed his inexperienced players for their 1-1 draw against Hallas Verona in their Serie A game on Saturday.<br \/>\nJuventus missed the opportunity to close the gap and mount pressure on Inter and AC Milan who take each other later today.<br \/>\nPirlo said after the game that his side lacked the experience required to close out the game with Verona.<br \/>\nAddressing the press after the disappointing draw, Pirlo said that Juve are in an \u201cemergency situation\u201d when asked if they are too reliant on Cristiano Ronaldo for goals.<br \/>\nRonaldo netted his 19th goal of the Serie A season to fire Juve ahead, but the Old Lady were pegged back by an Antonin Barak header in a 1-1 draw on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe draw leaves Juve seven points adrift of leaders Inter, and Pirlo pointed to a lack of experience in his side.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing, as we knew it would be a difficult and hard-fought game,\u201d Pirlo told DAZN.<br \/>\n\u201cWe managed to take the lead, which was the most difficult part, then didn\u2019t keep hold of it.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are these small details that unfortunately young players don\u2019t understand can make the difference and lead to points.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you are in front, you must try to bring these games home. We were missing a lot of experienced players, so the younger elements didn\u2019t understand the way the match was going.<br \/>\n\u201cI asked Cristiano and Alex Sandro to speak to them and make their voices heard, but it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Pirlo has blamed his inexperienced players for their 1-1 draw against Hallas Verona in their Serie A game on Saturday. Juventus missed the opportunity to close the gap and mount pressure on Inter and AC Milan who take each other later today. Pirlo said after the game that his side lacked the experience required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4680,15475,4665],"class_list":["post-321053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-juventus","tag-pirlo","tag-ronaldo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}