Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri isn’t bothered about his team’s five-point gap behind Serie A leaders Napoli after his team lost 2-1 to Lazio.
Two goals from Ciro Immobile cancelled out Douglas Costa’s first-half opener before Juve substitute Paulo Dybala saw his last-gasp penalty saved at the Allianz Stadium.
It was a first home league loss for the six-in-a-row Scudetto winners in over two years — Udinese clinched a 1-0 victory here in August 2015.
Regarding Dybala, Allegri said: “Paulo has to remain calm. He will continue to take penalties, as long as he returns to taking them with venom. We have now, however, lost five points because of penalties.
“These are moments that happen in a player’s career, but they just need to get over them and start doing things right again.
“He did not start because he came back late [from international duty with Argentina] and only trained yesterday.”
On his team’s position in the table, Allegri was unconcerned and pointed out that the Serie A season is long and that two years ago they were 12 points off the top spot early on before coming back to win the league.
He said: “This has not been a decisive match. We have to worry about ourselves and work to fix our mistakes.”
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