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Last night the Juventus side saw off the Barcelona side in the last eight of the competition and the Catalan defender thinks that the Italian side can win the tournament.
The Barcelona center back Gerard Pique admitted that Juventus played better than them (Barcelona) and deserve their spot in the top four of the competition.
Last night in the Camp Nou the Barcelona side drawn their match against the Juventus side by 0-0, and because of that on a 3-0 aggregate the Juventus side reached to the Semi Finals.
Last night match ended their 15 match home winning streak in the competition they are feel just one match short to equaling with the Bayern Munich side.
In an interview Pique said: "They are a great team and over two legs they were better than us – they deserved to reach the semi-finals,"
"I wish them the best going forward because I think they can win the tournament this season.
"We created several chances but we had such a difficult task. As time wore on, it became increasingly unlikely we would achieve our objective of overturning the result.
"They are Italians, they know how to defend well and they are specialists in that area. They came to play their style of football and did it very well."
Last night in the last stage of the game the Catalan crowed were singing and showing there flags to the player to show their support and Pique were delighted to see that.
He added: "I think this is a hard defeat to take but the fans were fantastic and they kept singing,"
"They deserve to be recognised as it is one of the few times that I have seen the Camp Nou so proud in defeat.