Former Barcelona star Dani Alves ready to stand up for Juventus
Milan — Dani Alves is known for standing up for his beliefs and Juventus will expect nothing less from their "champion" right-back when they host his former club Barcelona in a must-win Champions League quarterfinal. A month after spectacularly overturning a 4-0 first-leg defeat to Paris Saint-Germain to prevail 6-5 on aggregate, Barcelona’s Euro dream remains very much alive ahead of Tuesday’s first leg in Turin. Even if, as Juve fans noted on Saturday with a fair amount of glee, the La Liga giants will lack their usual swagger following a shock 2-0 league reverse at Malaga in which Neymar suffered a rare sending-off. For Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri, who saw Alves get his hands on the 2015 trophy following a 3-1 defeat to Barcelona in the 2015 final, Saturday’s defeat was a blip "not worth taking into consideration". "It is still the same Barcelona. When you have players such as [Lionel] Messi, [Andres] Iniesta, [Luis] Suarez and Neymar, you don’t mess up games very often," he ...
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