Luciano Spalletti was left frustrated with his Juventus side’s performance during their 1-0 win over Lecce and has urged his team to “finish games off”.
Dusan Vlahovic’s goal after just 12 seconds was enough to secure all three points for Juve, who strengthened their Champions League hopes.
Vlahovic scored the fastest goal by a Juventus player in the three points per win era (from 1994-95) in Serie A – overtaking Arturo Vidal’s strike against Inter in November 2012 (18 seconds).
Juve have now taken the most points in Serie A over the last 10 matchdays (22 – W6 L4), while they have kept a clean sheet in four consecutive away games in Serie A for the first time since the period between October 2022 and January 2023.
The Bianconeri, however, scored just once despite producing 2.16 xG from 15 shots, 14 of which were from inside the box.
Spalletti believes his players make their job harder than it needs to be after making the same mistakes over the course of the season.
“We’ve been saying for a while that we keep doing this, we score early and then don’t finish the games off, it’s like a cut and paste of previous mistakes,” Spalletti told Sky Sport Italia.
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“We dominate whole areas of games, it seems like we are in total control, and then there are moments of superficiality where we lose our way, misplace passes that are just incredible for the level of football we are playing at.
“We cannot seem to maintain that concentration, determination and grit for the whole game. Once we make those mistakes, the tension and fear sets in, the match goes back into the balance.
“Then we get annoyed with ourselves, go and grab the game by the scruff of the neck and put it back on track.
“A game like this one cannot end 1-0, we barely allowed them to get into our half, there were so many situations where we had two attacking options and always went for the third worst one. That’s just what we are like.”
