Talking in an interview with DAZN (h/t Diario AS), Juventus striker Alvaro Morata has sensationally claimed that the Bianconeri would have overwhelmed Barcelona within the UEFA Champions League last in 2015 if VAR existed on the time.
The 2014/15 marketing campaign was a memorable one for Barça as they accomplished a shocking treble below the tutelage of supervisor Luis Enrique.
Having wrapped up the La Liga title and the Copa del Rey, Barcelona confronted Juventus within the finals of the Champions League in June, in Berlin.
The sport was off to a vivid begin for the Catalans as Ivan Rakitic scored simply 4 minutes into the sport. Alvaro Morata equalised for Juve ten minutes into the second interval however targets from Luis Suarez and Neymar ensured that the trophy got here to Catalonia.
In the course of the sport, there had been one or two contentious refereeing calls and Morata has now claimed that if VAR had existed on the time, issues would have gone in Juventus’ favour on that fateful night time in Germany.
“I at all times suppose that, with the VAR, they’d have given us a penalty and we’d have had yet another Champions League at Juventus. Life is like that…,” he mentioned in his interview.
Morata had strongly been linked with a move to Barcelona throughout the January switch window. Nonetheless, a transfer didn’t materialise because the Blaugrana ended up signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as a substitute.
On mortgage at Juventus from Atletico Madrid, the Spanish striker’s future stays in limbo. Addressing the state of affairs, he mentioned: “At Juve, each footballer performs for the longer term in each sport. There’s a lengthy queue of people that want to be right here.
“It’s regular for them to guage you, I give all the things to win and I’m very properly right here, my youngsters wish to pay attention Juve’s anthem once we move in entrance of the stadium. The remainder you don’t should ask me…”
Shifting again to the 2014/15 season, it was Barcelona’s first below Luis Enrique and was largely dominated by the success of the fearsome trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar, who plundered 122 targets between them.
