Juventus captain Gigi Buffon defended his teammates after their defeat to Barcelona.

Juve lost 3-0 in their opening Champions League group game.

“Today we've only watched the images with the boss from the salient parts of the match," Buffon told Sky Italia.

“We analysed the technical and tactical profile of the match, as we always do, and I was surprised by scale of the result.

“It's a result which leaves no room for other kinds of interpretation, I think it was too much for the game we played and above all how we held the pitch in the first half.

“It's imperative to maintain a certain compactness between the lines, you need to maintain a certain density and a certain ferocity.

“In the second half the pockets of space between our shirts got wider, because clearly we wanted to recover the result and we left our flank exposed. Against teams like them you can't do that."