It Begins

Great news Trez is back in time for inter!

i started watching serie a 3 years ago. now, i am an absolutely die hard juventus fan (my family are all juventude and have been since they were born and raised in turin).

if juventus want to win this game, they need a midfield that can keep up with inters fast pace, and they CANNOT make any stupid mistakes (i.e. Melo's performance against udinese) on midfield or defense. Chiellini cannavaro grosso and most likely caceres must keep a tight formation and stay as far back as they can without sacrificing offensive playmaking opportunities. These are things that Juventus must do so they wont LOSE the match. Winning is an entierly different story.

to win this match, ciro ferrara must first stop playing eeny meeny miny mo with his formations and starting 11. a 4 3 1 2 (as previously mentioned this blog) is a pretty safe idea.his defense should more or less be the one i suggested, his midfield should be diego, sissoko (who played well on his return) and either giovinco or marchisio. melo needs to go kick a ball around and learn how to pass again.

as for offense, well thast entirely up for opinion. everyone can score, if the ball is given to them. del piero in the box...thats a goal. amauri at the top middle of the 18...thats a goal. trez in the box or at a good angle outside of it. thats a goal. giovinco can get INTO the box but im not too sure how well his finishing capabilities are.

im new to this site so i will try to be as accurate and sharp as i can regarding this subject

Goal.com Italia is legit...

Resorting to goal.com. Alessio, I thought you were better than that.

Here is the whole quote from Marco's interview:

Battete la Juve e ammazzate il campionato?
«Per noi la Juve è come il Livorno, una partita come tutte le altre. La Juve è forte, ed è ferita: venderà cara la pelle per accorciare il distacco. Non saremo da meno: il nostro obiettivo è vincere sempre».

So there, you see it is not nearly so dismissive.

I miss Moggi. His comments are still sharp and accurate as ever!

You said it right Ale. Coming from a guy who a) has the world cup trophy tattooed on his upper thigh b) will be remembered by all as "the guy who got hit by Zidane" c) someone who won't set foot on the field on Saturday, I say who gives a damn?

Materazzi- For us, Juve is like Livorno
https://www.goal.com/it/news/2...

Yes, I imagine sitting on the bench is pretty equal no matter who you're playing.

^^^This, ladies and gentlemen is what happens when you run out of Stelazine and Risperdal for a few days.

pes 2010 is the best football video game I have ever played!! The really sad thing is that, I was able to get juve to win more games in the champions league than ferrara has in real life. Im a god at that game, not to brag but I did win the serie A on maximum difficulty with catania. Hard thing to do, the best part was thrashing milan 5-0 at home, my best victory has to have been when I was playing as chievo and thrashed milan 6-1, its actually easy to do, cuz milan are weak in the air, just send in deep, high balls into their penalty box and you get goals galore!!!!! Yeah I know none of you care about what I have to say but I dont care that you dont care!!!

Was Gearing up for it. But just found out I have to work. Blows! I'll try and escape and catch the second half but what a bummer.

why wouldn't Interestas see Deko on the pitch? He's been a better player than last season. Cannot wait for this clash!

Forza Inter!

as you said Alessio, A-B-A. it would be a confidence boost for Immobile to get the nod ahead of Amauri (his negativity really gets to me).

anyways, the boys never fail to impress in big games. im excited, nervous, worried, eager all at the same time..

FORZA JUVE

As an Inter fan, I would hate to see Diego, Giovinco, and ADP on at the same time. Would much prefer Amauri.

I want bloodshed against Inter.

Armando, very nice post

for now i can understand inter having the time and lesiure to make these commercials, but our juventus do not...well excited for the match this weekend! it's always big, and i just remember ranieri was great at this kind of showdown, but awful against other teams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Mughini with another outrageous appearance after a Juve loss. He'll probably write his 19th book about the club now!

Bit off topic but yeh football manager is the best game , perfect fro a football nut, better than FIFA and Pro Evo in my opinion. Im a bit of an addict gotta admit that :P love takeing control of teams in the lower leagues and top league strugllers eg. Livorno. And of course Juventus, who are damn good in FM 10!

I love Football Manager myself, though I have to admit I tend to be more of a Claudio Ranieri or Mario Beretta than a Marcello Lippi...good at bringing mediocre teams to the top, (in my last game I brought 4 teams up from Serie B) but I'm not much of a Scudetto winner. :/

Haha ye Armando you love your formations and your tactics, u sound like a keen "Football Manager" player.

Great post, Armando.

I had an idea today, that I wanted to ask all of you. Could you write up a paragraph or two about the first memorable derby d'Italia for you as a Juventino? Email it to me at agiamba [at] gmail (dot) com, and do it soon if you can, nothing huge, just a recollection. I'm planning on putting it up in anticipation of the derby.

im getting chills just thinking bout it.....i just ask for one thing, to bring it to Inter, ofcourse i do not want to lose, but more importantly i want the Juve that played against Roma, i want the Juve that played against Sampdoria....and yes, i would love to see Del Piero start instead of Amauri

And btw, Armando, idk if you play Football Manager, but it seems like it would be fun to play a season of Serie A against you. And I don't waste my time playing FM against just anybody, so that should give you an idea of what I thought about your comment. If I had Ciro's direct line I would have given it to you :)

How frocio does zanetti look in the first video hahaha

Man, a shitty team or not, I am fucking stoked about this game!! To be honest, the scudetto is kind of a reach and CL is going to be unimaginably tough. So I say give all the league winning bonuses to the players if they win this match. It would provide me with soooooo muuuuuch joy!!!! If I had the money I would pay them. I just want them to be motivated, and to play their game. Inter is actually a good looking squad, now that they have an actual striking duo instead of a gypsy alone up there. Dejan Stankovic is a great player, have had the pleasure of watching him play many times. Amauri - he may not be in form but he can be deadly if given the right cross. Plus, we only score from set pieces anyways so he better be out there. I dont want to wait till Saturday....

I think if Juve want to win this match, first of all they need to show the desire and the ability to win like they did against Sampdoria, Roma, etc. And secondly i think they need to use the right starting squad and use the right subs. Personally i think this would be the best starting XI, using a 4-2-3-1 formation:

Buffon
Caceres Cannavaro Chiellini Grosso
Marchisio Sissoko
Camoranesi Diego Giovinco
Del Piero

I think we need to attack from the beginning and use our creativity and through balls more than anything, rather than use long balls and crosses like we usually do when we have Amauri on the field because i dont think that would work. If it didnt work against Cagliari, it sure as hell is not gonna work against Inter who quite possibly have the best defense in the world. I think we need to try to get a quick goal early on in the game, but then keep attacking and try to get another but change formation a bit. But no matter what happens, i've come up with a gameplan no matter the scenario:

Depending on if we're winning or losing by the beginning/middle of the second half (around the hour mark), the best subs would be:

If we're losing: Take out either Sissoko or Marchisio, whichever is performing worse, probably Marchisio is the better choice because he just got back from injury and we dont want to re-aggrivate his injury, and put in Amauri, switching it to a 4-1-3-2 with Sissoko holding the defensive midfield by himself and Camo, Gio, Diego, ADP, and Amauri all moving forward. Camo and Gio can also track back if we get counterattacked, and Grosso and Caceres would have to be more reserved with their attacking if we were to switch to the 4-1-3-2. Maybe take out Sissoko for Melo then also, as Melo is a bit more complete. Sissoko is a defensive powerhouse, but Melo is also, plus has a bit better passing ability to help get the ball to the attackers in the first place.

If we're winning: Take out Giovinco and put in Amauri, and switch to a slightly more reserved 4-3-1-2 with Amauri and ADP up front. Then put Melo in the midfield with Marchisio and Sissoko to hold that lead, but still have enough attacking power with Diego, ADP, and Amauri to increase the lead if wanted or needed.

If we're winning by 2 or more goals: Completely switch to a defensive formation, by either taking out Diego and putting in Melo in central midfield with Camo and Gio on the flanks and ADP up front in a 4-5-1, or go totally defensive, take out Gio and Camo for Poulsen and Melo and switch to a purely defensive 4-4-1-1 with a midfield quartet of Poulsen-Sissoko-Marchisio-Melo and Diego and ADP in front of them.

I think Ciro should read this carefully.

hahha already getting ready to make excuses for the loss :P

who knows maybe you guys who have been playing like crap we'll be like us before the match against milan when we totally destroyed them, we werent playing well but the team who wins is the team who plays better on the day, and that team was us, so in football you never know, naaaaaahhhh, just messing with you guys, you wish you could beat us 4-0, oh well its football, so it wouldnt surprise me to much if you guys won or we won or whatever, juve were playing like crap before that real madrid match last season and then they turned it around, you're going to need a stronger manager than ranieiri to win the title though, theres no question that juve can win one match, but can you win enough to topple us while having a coach who is worse than the guy who couldnt get you to win for a month and a half?

yeah I dont trust this team enough to write them off yet, you bastards always find some way of playing well against us, but who knows, my hope is that we go to work and finish the job well before the game is over, sneijder better be there, oh and for the record if we lose we had no maicon and no quaresma

Amauri vs Stankovic? that's deprressing. It should have been Gigi vs Ceasar or Diego vs Sniejder or even Giovinco vs Balotelli.

There is always hope alessio.
It isnt over until the fat lady sings.

An unrelated note, Juve is only 3 points behind Marcello Lippi's Scudetto winning 1994-1995 side at this same point in the round. There is hope!!

I dont see why we cannot drop Amauri to the bench, play del piero forward, giovinco on the left and Diego in the middle. I mean we if we do, we wont be going in that same root, over the top, or a cross into the box, if amauri plays. The forward line wont be soo bloody static as well. And ceartivty, well wow that just wont be a problem will it, i mena deel perio, diego, giovicno and camoranesi! FUCK!

See, I think Amauri sucks eggs so I would be more than happy to see him out there (plus, I love that sad little pouty face he makes when the opposing defense shuts him down).

Deki has been pretty great this season. Well, maybe not fabulous, but I wouldn't kick him to the bench just yet. I just prefer him not to play trequartista.

Just like the Gabibbo, it's something they "borrowed" from American sports tv.

NBA came up with that one and ran it during last years playoffs, "There Can Only be One" as they called it- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

And Stankovic v. Amauri......do either fans want to see their respective player on the pitch?

The Javier Del Piero is sort of creepy though.

Well said Ale. The commercials really do whet the appetite. Saturday will be awesome!

Awesome commercials, horrible matchup between Amauri and Stankovic lol.