Andrea Pirlo had his first MLS start for New York City FC, but wished Juventus good luck against Lazio in the Italian Super Cup.

Next Saturday his former teammates play in Shanghai for their first trophy of the season, but Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli and Sami Khedira are out injured.

Our US correspondent Marco Messina was at the Press conference at Yankee Stadium.

Andrea Pirlo had his first MLS start for New York City FC, but wished Juventus good luck against Lazio in the Italian Super Cup.

Next Saturday his former teammates play in Shanghai for their first trophy of the season, but Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli and Sami Khedira are out injured.

Our US correspondent Marco Messina was at the Press conference at Yankee Stadium.

“I hope I can see some of the match. It’s an important match, they’ll be playing in China so it’s going to be really hot over there. I hope that Juventus can win it!"

The Italy midfielder was on from the beginning as his team lost 3-2 to Montreal Impact this evening.

“It wasn’t a great game, but like I said last time, it takes time to build a team, so these things can happen. Unfortunately we conceded in the beginning but we did our best and we’ll keep improving.

“I’m someone that likes touching the ball, we are looking to get to the best play, we’ve only been together for a short amount of time so it’ll take time to find ourselves as a team all together.

“We need to work on our defence because it’s very important to not concede. We conceded six goals in the past couple of games so it’s definitely something we need to work on.

“MLS is what I expected, a tough league especially when you play in this kind of heat. I hope I’ll be able to continue to improve physically, I feel fine even though it was hot, we’ve been training for 10 days so it’s not really a matter of how many minutes I’ve played, the thing is about playing well.

“I’m here to help teach some of my experience professionally and tactically. The important thing is we all work together to make soccer successful in America.”

Follow Marco Messina on Twitter @marcocalcio22

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