Juventus hero Alessio Tacchinardi has hit out at coach Andrea Pirlo's critics.

Tacchinardi has urged fans to get behind Pirlo.

He told Ilbianconero: “I think they have to get it over with! It's too easy to criticize all the time, you have to compliment a guy who has just started training and rightly tries to bring home the result.

“Here, however, nobody is ever happy with anything. You have to stop making judgments. on Pirlo, he is a smart and good coach, he will go on.

“To those who criticize him for the five defenders put in in the last minutes, I say I would have put ten! Pirlo has already won one more Super Cup than many other super-renowned coaches who they have nothing on their bulletin board. “