Gianluigi Buffon has said he has not even given a moment’s thought to Wednesday night’s Champions League fixture with Tottenham potentially being his last in the competition, as he prepares for more top European nights this season.
“If something happens which is not quite perfect or is only half a mistake, then in my next game, I am always determined to provide the answer I feel is due,” he said at a news conference at Wembley. “I feel I am still a goalkeeper who can perform at this level and I can still make a difference.
“I’ve got to be honest in that I’ve never thought about it [being my last Champions League game], maybe because I’m naturally optimistic. I hope that, at least for this year, it won’t be the last for me and it won’t be the last for Juve. I hope there will be many more important ones to come.”
Defeating Spurs will nevertheless take one of Juve’s best performances this season with Buffon paying tribute to the Premier League club’s strengths, but saying they also have weaknesses.
“I think that Tottenham are a side with characteristics and a way of playing which have bedded in and they will play the game they are capable of playing, which is an open, attacking, physically and technically strong football which will certainly cause us problems,” he said.
“But they play a kind of football which also, now and again, allows their opponents favourable chances to score, so I think it will be a very attractive, very even game, in which the side who prove to be more cynical will win it and go through.”
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