McKennie Juventus' Travel Value In The Champions League Is Easier Than In Serie A

Weston McKennie said traveling in the Champions League was easier than in Serie A this season (Instagram/@juventus).

JAKARTA - Juventus are indeed the only unbeaten team in Serie A 2024/2025 after undergoing 16.

However, these notes were unable to keep them in the top four of the Champions League standings or zones given their small number of wins.

La Vecchia hanya mengemaskan enam kemenangan, sisanya alias 10 laga berakhir seri.

No wonder, now Thiago Motta's team is in sixth place in the standings with 28 points, nine points clear of Atalanta at the top of the standings.

Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie thinks traveling in Serie A is more difficult than playing in the Champions League this season.

The theory is similar to what AC Milan manager Paulo Fonseca said some time ago.

You see, the bottom-board Serie A teams are difficult to beat. Because of that, Juventus often failed to win against the lower club of the league.

McKennie gave an example of how opponents in the Champions League, which on average big clubs, stick to their systems and style of play.

As a result, Juventus easily fought a team like that because they could study the system and look for weaknesses.

Things are different from in Serie A. The bottom teams of the Italian League have an unpredictable approach. They often change tactics when facing big teams like Juventus.

This situation is supported by the difficulty of La Vecchia Totaling a new tactical idea because the match schedule is getting denser, including Serie A, Champions League, Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana, and even the Club World Cup.

So, Juventus is difficult to win against the bottom-board Serie A team who are already looking for strategy bidders. While the Old Lady has to stick with the system as usual, without being able to find a suitable approach for changing the opponent's system due to a busy schedule.

"It's much easier to play the way we want every time we play against high-level teams in Champions League games."

"The thing is, those teams have quality and they want to go out and play the way they want."

"Compared by playing against smaller teams (in Serie A) where they might change the way they play with ideas that can hurt us, a way that is not like their game (usually)."

"Often times, if a team survives, it makes it more difficult for any team to try to break through, counterattack, or one on the one hand on the side of the pitch."

"We will definitely do it every time we have time. With this schedule and season, it's rare for us to find time to be able to do something with 100 percent."

"The thing is, the most important thing is recovery and play, recovery and play," McKennie said during a CBS Sports interview.

Juventus have never even won in the last four matches in a series of Serie A, all ended in a draw.

The last time the Old Lady won in the league came when Derby Turin fought Torino on November 10, 2024.

Meanwhile, Juventus' pace in the Champions League is fairly good. They won three matches, two draws, and one loss.

One of the victories they won was when they beat England's strong team, Manchester City, with a score of 2-0 in the latest match of the Champions League, December 12, 2024.