Juventus crashed out of the Champions League at the hands of FC Porto on Tuesday night.
The Portuguese opposition scored a crucial away goal late into extra time to progress into the quarter-finals.
Juve won a scrappily at home 3-2 to get the aggregate score to 4-4. They had the advantage when Porto’s Mehdi Taremi was shown a red card near the hour mark. Pirlo’s men could not capitalise and went into extra time only to be dealt a surprise blow.
“When you make four big errors over two legs in the Champions League Round of 16, you can get eliminated,” Pirlo told Sky Italia.
“We didn’t get it wrong when Porto were down to 10, as all we could do was try to spread them out by moving the ball side to side and packing the penalty area with bodies. That is how the goals arrived.
“It will take a few days to cancel this game from our minds, but then we must face every game with the right attitude, realise we’re still only in March and have time to climb the Serie A table.”
He continued, “We had started well and there was a chance with Alvaro Morata to take the lead immediately. It didn’t go in, there was an error for the penalty, we could’ve conceded a second, but then played the game we should’ve done in the second half, helped also by the extra man.
“I don’t think our starts are a problem. We knew Porto would play like this, the game could change if we scored in the opening minutes. When you concede, then it becomes a completely different match.”
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