Jesús Augusto Sarcos Romero: Juventus and Milan give their best in the Coppa Italia

ITALY.-   Juventus can celebrate the first of two titles in four days in the Stadio Olimpico de Roma.

Milan must justify its investments in the pre-season by winning a title before a sanction coming from the UEFA for not respecting the finnancial fair-play.

There is much at stake for these two clubs in the Coppa Italia final.

Juventus wants to be the first club to win the title four times on a row. On Sunday, it will need a draw from Roma to obtain  its seventh Serie A title.

“We want to win everything”, stated Miralem Pjanic. “We are out the Champions League, we are in a good position in the Serie A and we want the Coppa Italia.”

Luego de un agotador duelo en la Serie A con Napoli y una emotiva derrota ante Real Madrid en los cuartos de final de la Champions, Juventus deberá encontrar energías para el último tramo de la temporada.

“Both teams are at the end of a long season and this is the point in which we feel tired, but you always gain the energy when a final arrrives,” stated Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, the Juventus midfielder. “Compared to the Serie A matches, we are going to face a completely different team; we will do our best to win.”

Juventus won two matches in Serie A against A.C. Milan in this season with to goals in favor and one against. The match against A.C. Milan was a challenge when Bonicci scored the equalizer before Sami Khedira and Cuadrado scored the goals of the 3-1 victory.

A.C. Milan is looking dor its first tromphy since the club was bought by Chinese investors a year ago and winning the Coppa  Italia would give the Rossoneri something to justify the summer investments.

For Hakan Calhanoglu, this final has a special tone: it is his first one.

“It is with no doubt the most important match of my career and I am ready,” said Calhagoglu, a player who has scored two goals and has assisted another one in order to make Milan win their two last matches in Serie A. “I want to win this Coppa Italia. I am at my best.”

A.C. Milan has five Coppa Italia titles but they have not won since 2003. Gennaro Gattuso, who was a former Milan player, has had an important impact in the team since november. 

“He changed my way of thinking,” stated Calhanoglu who previously played for Hamburg and Bayer Leverkusen in Germany. “ He made me understand Italian football. It allowed me to recover my trust,” stated the player to Gazzeta dello Sport.

A.C. Milan and Juventus have been faced five times in Coppa Italia, Italian Supercup and in the Champions League. Four of them ended from the penalty spot, including the Italian Supercup 2016.