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Juventus coach Allegri: We're not going to win every game 3-0

Juventus coach Max Allegri says Gonzalo Higuain will face Champions League opponents Dinamo Zagreb.

Juve drew their first Champions League match of the season with Sevilla.

“Higuain will play tomorrow," Allegri revealed in his pre-match Press conference. “It's normal that Higuain has different characteristics to [Mario] Mandzukic and we must learn how to know him, the lads who go onto the pitch must learn how to know him.

“Right now we have 15 points in the League after six games, we've played some games well and others less well.

“But the thing I want to say is that everyone has this illusion that Juventus must win every game 3-0. I think though that Juventus must get our feet back on the ground and be practical and solid.

“The fact is that to win games you have to work, sweat, toil and play well. But good play goes independent of whether you win or lose a game, even if you win by five you have to improve if you played badly.

“That's the thing that bothers me most, because this illusion bring superficiality, and superficiality leads to errors. The proof is on Saturday in Palermo… The team definitely didn't have a good game, but I know that, we all know that, the lads first and foremost.

“But last year in Palermo we won the match 3-0 where we scored two late goals in the 90th and 94th minute. The year before - and my memory doesn't go back any further than that - we won 1-0 with [Alvaro] Morata scoring with 15 minutes to go.

“At the moment Juventus have won the matches Juventus had to win, and we have to return to being practical as we should be and not deluded.'

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