Excuse Me While I Go Puke In The Corner

By: roberto | September 27th, 2009

Oh good, he knows how to point.

How the f*ck can you drop two points in stoppage time? You continue to rely on half-retarded pylons (excluding Giorgio) to man your back line. What the hell is Legrottaglie still doing in the Serie A? I have no damn clue. In fact, what’s funny about it is, he doesn’t either I’m sure. I’m still f*cking fuming. Enter at your own risk, enough with the censoring already.

Jesus that was fucking brutal. It’s like someone just riped out my heart and replaced it with some shit wrapped in burning hair in the last dying seconds of this one. We were so damn close then again after a quickly taken kick, our opponents do some damage. Simply put, at times our defense is the biggest piece of shit in the league. They don’t know how to play soccer, i’m convinced. In addition there’s no fucking emotion from any of them (Chiellini plug your ears). It’s like they’ve all contracted a virus from Tiago rotting tampon from last season. No one shouldn’t be worried that only ”at times” our guys suck hard. There shouldn’t be any fucking “times” at all.

For me I see no above average ability whatsoever back there, and that’s stretching it. Absolutely no brains, just slow to react fouling bitches. I kind of saw myself saying I’d miss Cannavaro if injured throughout this season but not this much. Molinaro, Grygera, Legro, they all stink like piss soaked car seats that haven’t been aired out for over three months sitting in a New Delhi airport.

Why am I so pissed? Because we still haven’t learned our lesson after two+ years. We’re still giving teams like Bologna two-three-four beautiful scoring chances a game. I’m talking about one on ones with Buffon, I’m talking about Chiellini heading balls off of the goal line, I’m talking about absofuckinglutely wide open far post man to man coverage scoring chances. Molinaro and Nicola are both fucking asleep at the wheel. Oh yeah, bring on Bayern!

“I think that Bologna deserved the draw because they created a number of difficulties for us but even we had the opportunity of scoring a second”. Coach Ferrara said after the game. ”It is not a good result and we weren’t clever because we should have managed to bring the three points home”.

“We should have tried to make the opponents run , hitting back. This we did not manage to do and we gave them the chance to attack. We conceded a bit too much on inactive balls and this should never happen”.

The draw was not well received: “We took the draw badly. It bothers us because it was our intention to win even though it does not change much in the table. However, I think that in the team we have players who are capable of dealing with victories and even such false steps”.

“This is important since on Wednesday we have a very difficult match. Bayern lost this weekend and so did Chelsea and this might mean that the Champions League does have a certain effect”.

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sofia

wow this was an intense post! but i totally agree!
i definitely miss cannavaro, at least he put his all into every game. Legro looked terrible back there. wow. just wow.
Patrik

Seriously - this blog is way too childish. Your posts way too often look like this, and they never contain any interesting points of view, never any deep analyzes, never any smart texts of games.

Have you guys ever played football yourselves? Have you watched more than 10 games? You seem to totally lack all kinds of analyzing skills, you don't seem to be able to read the game and you certainly can't write about football in an interesting way. All you do in this blog is write that "you're pissed off" and similar childish stuff. You come with nothing of your own at all. This blog goes under the category of 'stating the obvious'. It's not very impressing.

It's a miracle it's got so many readers.
Weston (@wpazzurri)

well, whoever picked out ur name mustve based it on ur personality.
The Troll

wow so much for freedom of speech, I guess the right to be an asshole has more priority than that one, eh alessio?
Weston (@wpazzurri)

alessio, maybe molinaro stole ur car...
Jorid

Mickey=Monster case of schizophrenia.
Sam

"At least the Saints won!"

The Saints in what sport?

The team is as follows:
1 Buffon
2 Caceres
3 Chiellini
4 Felipe Melo
6 Grosso
7 Salihamidzic
8 Marchisio
9 Iaquinta
10 Del Piero
11 Amauri
12 Chimenti
13 Manninger
15 Zebina
16 Camoranesi
17 Trezeguet
18 Poulsen
19 Molinaro
20 Giovinco
21 Grygera
28 Diego
29 De Ceglie
30 Tiago
33 Legrottaglie

No Cannavaro yet :( and still no Sissoko.
Juulesy

Dodgy defenders? Wonder what's taking so long for those at the helm to recognise this! Still, my focus of the argument would rather be at the ambitions and intentions of the regime, coaching staff and players. Look at the reactions after the Bordeaux draw. The focus was more on the goal conceded. The defenders are more under the microscope and not so much about the wastefulness in front of goals, lack of determined runs from the midfield: God I so miss Pavel Nedved!!! Until the mindset of how the club's performances are judged shifts to how efficiently we can wrap up games, even the best defenders are going to feel the sometimes unwarranted pressures. I can only pray we get the best out of Del Piero or Diego at crucial chunks of the season. Forza Juve
Robee

Dudes, Molinaro is a disaster, really. As is Legrottaglie, never have been a fan of the player Legro. Aside of that, also his bullshit about God every time starts to bore me.

Really I said it before; throw in Caceres and make him used to the Italian way of defending, cause we'll need him there. Even Ariaudo I would prefer above Legro, that boy has a golden future.
And for fuck's sake if Grosso is out, put in De Ceglie...

Daniel, I only agree partly on that one. Look at the goal, and look where Giovinco is positioned. Wouldn't have been avoided if Diego was on the pitch.

What will make our team stronger in defense, well in my opinion, is the return of Sissoko. His return also gives us room to play a different formation and he will make sure Marchisio gets his well deserved rest now and then. With him in the squad we have 2 buffers in front of defence and we can play 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 etc, etc...

Looks pretty certain that Melo won't lose his spot, so I'm not sure how Ferrara will or should use Sissoko. Why don't you make a little post on that, Alessio or Roberto. Like the Giovinco discussion we had a while ago? At least, I'd like to see some of your ideas on this one.
Daniel

The comentator of ESPN Brasil said something I deeply agree. Once Giovinco got into the field, our defence was worse. Reason: Diego comes back to help and holds the ball at the midfield, until his mates go further so he passes the ball. Gio gets the ball and runs to the end of the pitch.
Marchisio HAD to play, there was no one offensive enough to replace him. Please do not say PDC. Not on Marchisio's spot, for that matter.

Roma buying Molinaro would be a dream come true. Only better if Inter made the move ^^.

ps: sorry about the car alessio.
agiamba

That's posted on Juventus.com as well, al.
http://juventus.com/site/eng/N...

Nedved visited the group to say hi and good luck against Bayern, Tuttosport says also to discuss a coaching role. The directors offered him one and said he'd always have it available, he declined in May and June, but maybe he misses calcio already.
agiamba

Goal.com posted an article about what was wrong with each team. Now we all know Goal.com is rubbish, but they are right on this one. With Inter it is their midfield, which is probably right especially post-injury Cambiasso right now, and for us they said a lack of depth, which I agree with. Especially in midfield.

Thanks for the thoughts guys, unfortunately no luck on the car. At least the Saints won!
dillon

The draw had me fuming as well. But short turnaround before the big CL match and can't dwell on it. I expect...or hope, to see a response from our players in Munich.
al

nedved is back?

http://goal.com/en/news/10/ita...
Jack

is The Troll, Mickey?
al

alessio, so sorry about the car. how is it going now? any news?
Brian

Man, that post made me feel like I was right at home on the Roma offside. I thought you guys mocked us for our bombastic recriminations about our defense. My heart goes out to you guys but still, it was only a draw, and hey, Samp deserves their day in the sun.
papai

and sorry about your car mate. Lets hope they catch the mofo who did it and go old school on him.
papai

Fuck I am still so pissed off about this result!
Get molinaro and poulsen out of my sight.
Now I understand why no one bought them during the mercato! Who the fuck signed them in the first place?

I dont get the hate for leggro.. the guy is decent as a backup CB.

Ferrara made some tactical blunders in the game, the biggest of which was selecting Molinaro :x Marchisio should have been rested. Amauri should have been subbed at the break...

Only good thing is that Trez is scoring... Three goals already...
The Troll

I am a closeted Juventino.
The Troll

Mickey loves Juve.
Vinod

Wow, that's rough, alessio (the car). Hope the cops find it.
Jack

This will hopefully be the wakeup call we need, the draw with Genoa was acceptable cause Genoa are a solid side, but the slim wins vs likes of Livorno were not quite acceptable.

The players knew they had to lift their game but winning slimly doesn't give the same effect as dropping points.
georg

oh forget to add

cannavaro: many of you hate him with all your guts, but do we need more proof our defence is not even half as solid then when he plays?
georg

really I cried myself a river yesterday. so painful.

legrotaglie: i must agree with alessio on this one. I also think he's decent, not world class, but decent.and thats what a back up needs to be(same like grygera), what do people expect? juve doen'st have the luxury,nor the money to have worldclass on the bench
first half we barely gave anything away and played extremely well at times, second half however , the whole team 'forgot' to play somehow. logic the defence will collapse to if everybody sucks!

molinaro: I've had it with this guy, juve played some impressive possession at times, building up patiently, allow to ball to do the work, fast passing from foot to foot(like it should) but once the ball went to molinaro, its a goddamn 100% guaranty all the build up was just for nothing. ive seen him taken 6 or 7 attempts to cross and all resulted in possession for bologna. Roma must be out of their f*cking minds to spend money on him. let them have him, even for 1€.

zebina: don't understand the complains about him as he did a very very good job.the goal was a result of an excellent action by him

marchisio: I agree he should have been rested , he showed only a shadow of his performances of past weeks

melo: his awfull pass led to the goal, sometimes he also dribbles a bit to much, hoever , i think he's worth every cent, because he's overall play is absoutely excellent.

caomranesi: excellent, if on form he belongs to the very best midfielders in the world

diego: he needs some rhythm, but also his adaptation is not perfect yet, his posission play was not always the best, this will come in time.

amauri: completely out form and he plays with lots and lots of frustration,..; not good, he must get his shit back together, better today then tomorrow

Trez: although he wasted 2 good opportunities, his form and sharpness are clearly INCREASING. he played much better then in previous games,as his position play was excellent. I think he is 2-3 games away for returning to the clinical bad-ass mothafucking world class striker he used to be, scoring and finishing like a machine. especially if del piero returns to his old form, I'm pretty sure good times will start for juve. and the classic 'old couple' will shine once more.it will be bench time for amauri and iaquinta

ferara: I agree he better changed urlier, but I don't blame him. for him this is also something new and his abilities as a coach will increase. thus far i'm incredibly pleased with his work as juve plays much much much better and nicer football then under ranieri. i'm sure the quality of play and number of victories will only increase.
Sam Dj

so much hate for legro...
and yet many of you guys also opposed canna during the summer..
it's true that he was never a world class defender but he did a pretty good job over the last two seasons and u can't blame his performance today after being sidelined by canna the first several games
Jorid

Damn Alessio, sorry to hear about your car. That truly sucks. Hope they catch the fucker. About Legro again, personally I don't want anyone flashy. Not a fan of "flashy" at all actually. It just seems to me that Legro just doesn't really have a stand-out characteristic about him and he is somewhat mediocre. Tudor was solid back in like the first 3 seasons he had with Juve. The guy was pretty versatile and could play multiple positions, was great at headers and a real threat on offensive set pieces. He was also pretty strong physically which I think helped him perform well. I honestly can't remember much about how he did tactically as I was too young to know much about tactics. All I knew then was that Juve played a 4-4-2. You're maybe right and I might be complaining too much about him and Grygera, but they just don't stand out for anything for me.

P.S: Couldn't have said it better myself. Add Poulsen and Zebina to that list and I'm happy.
roberto

Sorry about your car, that sucks. Do you have insurance?
roberto

alessio Legrottaglie has certainly hurt the team just as many times, or more, then has he saved us. As per the awards he has received in the last two seasons, I'd much rather believe he's benefiting from playing in a unique time in Italian calcio where our nation isn't producing any world-class centre-backs, Chiellini aside.
Jack

Heads up boys, we have to drop some points in the season and better to do it now than later.
agiamba

And my car got stolen tonight. What a shitty day!!
agiamba

There have been several games where he has saved our ass, you must be forgetting that he was named one of the best center-backs in Italy for the last two seasons. And unlike Molinaro, he doesn't rely on his fitness. His quality is reading the game. There have been very few games where Legrottaglie has blown it...Chiellini has had just as many.

Grygera is defensively adequate, I'll be the first to agree he is shit up front, but at least unlike Jonathan "the douchebag" Zebina, he doesn't leave big gaping holes in the back.
roberto

Listen you can't just be physically fit enough to play at this level. You need to something more, much more. There are a million and a half Legrottaglie's out there.

Get him, Molinaro, and Grygera out of my fucking sight and we'll have a chance at the Scudetto... nevermind the CL.
Anthony

Well its a really crappy result. I don't know why Legro is getting so much hate though. Last season he was one of Serie A's best defenders. This season he started off slower. I'm hoping he gets his old form back soon because if anything, he's a good backup.
agiamba

Jorid I think Legrottaglie is as good as any backup we've had in the past, certainly as capable as Kovac or Tudor, and a lot less injury prone. He's just not as flashy as you'd like, he doesn't execute a lot of sliding challenges and he doesn't outmuscle other players. But he plays tactically intelligently, and anticipates play well.

Johnny I hope you are not a Juve fan because calling Trez overrated and a world-class ass is blasphemy.
Vincent

Leggro was decent for you guys today. I don't get the hate for him. But Molinaro is a different story altogether
Sam

No way in hell is Trez a world class ass, you gotta get your facts right.

Im not sure why Legro is getting all this blame, i mean he good, but after seeing cannavaro, I can see where you are comign from.

The positive frm that match was Zebina, hes impressed me pre-season, and this match he was pretty darn good.

Otherwise im totally devastated with this result, reminds me off the 3-3 with Chievo. :(
Johnny

Trezeguet (imo the best striker in Serie A) is back on form. Thirdly, we’re a point ahead of Inter.

What a joke, he has two extremely fortunate goals with no real style or finish and he is the best striker in Serie A? He's not even the 4th best on Juve. He is over-rated. And he's a world class ass.
The Troll

My name is Mickey and I need a time out. Forza Juve!!
o_man

and Amauri should go learn from Immobile on how to move because he so fucking static.No wonder he doesn't get many chances,he doesn't where to move unlike Trez who had many chances