Tudor: ‘Ranieri achieved a miracle, made history in football’ | OneFootball

Juventus coach Igor Tudor explains his choices for the trip to Roma and hails the achievements of Claudio Ranieri. ‘He performed a miracle and made history in the football world.’

It kicks off at the Stadio Olimpico at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT).

You can follow all the build-up and action as it happens from today’s Serie A games on the Liveblog.

It was an ideal start to his tenure for Tudor, who beat Genoa 1-0 on his debut after replacing sacked Thiago Motta, but lost Federico Gatti to a fracture and is forced to reshuffle the three-man defence.

“Roma are in a good period of form with a run of victories, they have strong players, are well-drilled, playing on home turf. However, we worked well this week and have to prove ourselves here this evening,” Tudor told DAZN.

Tudor admires Ranieri record at Roma

Igor Tudor Juventus press conference (Picture: www.juventus.com/it)

There are only three points between Roma in seventh place and Juventus in fifth going into this clash, because the race for European places is extraordinarily tight.

It had not been the case a few months ago, but Ranieri has taken his team to an incredible run of seven consecutive Serie A victories.

“Ranieri performed a miracle in England with Leicester, but that is not all he achieved in his career. I know how well everyone speaks of him, he made history in the football world.”

Nico Gonzalez seems to be in a role closer to centre-forward Dusan Vlahovic today, with the Serbian again chosen ahead of Randal Kolo Muani.

“I’ve been here for basically a week now, I chose these players today, but everyone is important and often those who come off the bench are decisive. We want to do things right in both phases of the game,” noted Tudor.

Does picking Vlahovic for the second match in a row mean that the new coach has set his hierarchy for the Juventus forwards?

“You set a hierarchy one game at a time, make choices based on form and characteristics, what you see in training and during the match. I always said I liked Vlahovic, but Randal too, these are two great strikers.”