2014

Post #241 » by **magik9113** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:40 pm

Zaza is a stud. Great to know him and Berardi are likely to be at Juve someday

Post #242 » by **magik9113** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:40 pm

Juve's first dropped points of the season. Allegri's first mistakes of the season...... he obviously does not like Asamoah who is much better than Evra at attacking

Post #243 » by **magik9113** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:17 pm

how times change :lol:

Post #244 » by **magik9113** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:38 pm

an awesome second half for Inter-Napoli. 2-2 final

DD12 · Post #245 » by **DD12** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:08 pm

What a **** game again lol

strangespot · Post #246 » by **strangespot** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:09 am

Mazzarri always looks like a nerve wreck out there but yesterday he actually was near to a breakdown ! Next game is a must win for him or he's gone

Doormatt · Post #247 » by **Doormatt** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:10 pm

Just when Italian teams looked like they were making some noise on the continent, both absolutely **** the bed. It's funny tho roma had by far the worst result yet are in a better position to advance than juve lol.

What's obvious is this makeshift defense won't work against high quality European teams. We really need castan back and Strootman for these big games over Ninja. Would like to see us buy a quality fullback in the winter window as well

strangespot · Post #248 » by **strangespot** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:26 pm

it's true, both Roma and Juve failed miserably, even though Olympiakos goalie had the night of his life. But that can not be an excuse. You can not just start playing only in the last 30mins... thats just not enough in CL level.

In my opinion Pirlo shouldnt be starting in CL, the pace just got too fast for him. Its like Juve goes in 2nd gear with him and when he got subbed out for Marchisio, it was suddenly 6th gear.

for Roma on the other hand, all the compliments they got for their style of play didn't do any good. They probably thought they could just go and play Bayern the same way the play against Seria A opponents, that was suicide.

Post #249 » by **magik9113** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:34 pm

Juve should be ashamed. Sure they deserved a draw at least but what an embarrassing first half. Marchisio over Pirlo is definitely the way to go in CL

Doormatt · Post #250 » by **Doormatt** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:12 am

yes roma were a little bit too confident in the way they setup but the bigger problem was that literally nobody showed up outside of gervinho. our midfiled looked awful, pjanic was invisible, radja was giving the ball away and being useless, and de rossi needed a clone to cover up the mistakes of everyone else. iturbe couldnt dribble past anyone and totti couldnt even get a touch. our backline was completely exposed too, just straight up not good enough. manolas is talented but not consistent, just compare this performance with what he did against man city, night and day.

thankfully we still have strootman and castan to come back which will be a huge boost, but we still desperately need a competent fullback outside of maicon.

No_20 · Post #251 » by **No_20** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:10 am

Juventus' CL struggles are probably a little bit overrated.

I thought they did very well in 2012-13. Outplayed Chelsea in Turin, won 0-3 against Celtic in Glasgow(tough place to win), lost to one of the best teams of the last 30 years in Heynckes' Bayern Munich, no shame in that.

Galatasaray away last year was a massive chokejob, BUT they played the later champions Real Madrid very well. Lost 2-1 in Madrid playing with 10 men for a big part of the game and R Madrid got a soft penalty iirc. They outplayed them in Turin and Casillas one of his best games for a long time, Juve dominated them.

Relax.

Doormatt · Post #252 » by **Doormatt** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:58 pm

Moratti officially leaves inter, big news, thohir better do something soon or the fans will turn on him.

Also Pogba signed a new deal, nice bit of business for him and juve. If anyone wants him now they will have to overpay ridiculously.

strangespot · Post #253 » by **strangespot** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:21 am

No_20 wrote:Juventus' CL struggles are probably a little bit overrated.

I thought they did very well in 2012-13. Outplayed Chelsea in Turin, won 0-3 against Celtic in Glasgow(tough place to win), lost to one of the best teams of the last 30 years in Heynckes' Bayern Munich, no shame in that.

Galatasaray away last year was a massive chokejob, BUT they played the later champions Real Madrid very well. Lost 2-1 in Madrid playing with 10 men for a big part of the game and R Madrid got a soft penalty iirc. They outplayed them in Turin and Casillas one of his best games for a long time, Juve dominated them.

Relax.

Well yes, they tend to show up against bigger teams (except maybe Bayern two years ago, but Juve still looked better than Barcelona did in the semis

). I also thought they played great tactically against Atletico. BUT, the must wins which translate in only 1 or 0 points are the big problem. with all due respect but I think Juve has got much better players/talent than Copenhagen, Norjeland(or so...) Olympiakos and Galatasaray. With those teams the away games have always the same pattern. Juve starts slow, like they are afraid, the opponents score and then takes awihle until Juve re-adjusts to be more aggressive and actually try to create chances. Wednesdays game was a deja-vu. When they started playing there was no contest, Juve could have easily scored 4-5 goals but by then they are probably so desperate and act so hastily that they fail to score even on the easiest chances.

strangespot · Post #254 » by **strangespot** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:29 am

Doormatt wrote:yes roma were a little bit too confident in the way they setup but the bigger problem was that literally nobody showed up outside of gervinho. our midfiled looked awful, pjanic was invisible, radja was giving the ball away and being useless, and de rossi needed a clone to cover up the mistakes of everyone else. iturbe couldnt dribble past anyone and totti couldnt even get a touch. our backline was completely exposed too, just straight up not good enough. manolas is talented but not consistent, just compare this performance with what he did against man city, night and day.

thankfully we still have strootman and castan to come back which will be a huge boost, but we still desperately need a competent fullback outside of maicon.

Roma played much better than ManCity and should have taken home the 3 points imo. I actually also think that ManCity isn't really that good (a 2-2 against CSKA when they were winning 2-0 normally doesnt happen to a big team). Roma should win at home against them and pass the group stage.

Post #255 » by **magik9113** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:39 pm

**** **** Juve just gave up a goal in the 93rd min to Genoa. Now tied again with Roma for first place

:banghead:

Doormatt · Post #256 » by **Doormatt** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:22 pm

Perin was monumental, sign him up hes a real romanista.

Post #257 » by **Baphomet** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:58 am

magik9113 wrote:**** **** Juve just gave up a goal in the 93rd min to Genoa. Now tied again with Roma for first place

Not just tied but... like, super tied. Everything identical. Hoping for an exciting title race this season.

Post #258 » by **magik9113** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:55 pm

Baphomet wrote:
magik9113 wrote:**** **** Juve just gave up a goal in the 93rd min to Genoa. Now tied again with Roma for first place

Not just tied but... like, super tied. Everything identical. Hoping for an exciting title race this season.

I didn't even notice that. wow

strangespot · Post #259 » by **strangespot** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:32 pm

Only one victory in the last 4 games for Juve. Wouldn't call that a crisis yet, also because they have been missing goal opportunities in industrial qty (vs Sassuolo, Olympiacos, Genoa) and I remember last year Juve started their road to 3rd consecutive scudetto after losing to Fiorentina in an incredible way. But if they fail to win against Empoli tomorrow then I wouldn't be surprised to see first headlines about Allegri and how long he will last as Juve coach !

Post #260 » by **magik9113** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:31 pm

strangespot wrote:Only one victory in the last 4 games for Juve. Wouldn't call that a crisis yet, also because they have been missing goal opportunities in industrial qty (vs Sassuolo, Olympiacos, Genoa) and I remember last year Juve started their road to 3rd consecutive scudetto after losing to Fiorentina in an incredible way. But if they fail to win against Empoli tomorrow then I wouldn't be surprised to see first headlines about Allegri and how long he will last as Juve coach !

Nothing to panic about yet, but yea the next two games (Empoli + Olympiakos) will be huge for Allegri's future. IMO there is really no excuse for the recent poor results. These goal scoring droughts were a bit more forgivable when our strikers were Vucinic/Giovinco/Matri.