Fiorentina boss Vincenzo Montella has admitted that Juventus are by far the best side in Italy after watching the Old Lady knock his team out of the Coppa Italia.

La Viola were dumped out of the competition at the semi-final stage 4-2 on aggregate after losing the second leg 3-0 at home.

"Evidently, the gap between Juventus and the rest of Italy is large," Montella told Rai Sport. "This is proven by the gap in Serie A.

"There is bitterness in this defeat but we have no regrets. Congratulations to Juventus, we did our best but it wasn't good enough.

"Cup games don't have favourites, maybe the game would have been different, though. Juventus deserved to reach the final in the end, even if they got lucky at times."

Goals from Alessandro Matri, Roberto Pereyra and Leonardo Bonucci helped Juventus to the second-leg triumph, setting up a cup final against either either Napoli or Lazio.

Written by
Mark Langshaw