Comments on: Previews: Juventus-Fiorentina, CALCIO IS BACK!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:42:02 +0000

I was on the actual Juve site, reading up on the match and what not. I think my favourite quote, with regards to the match, other than Ranieri calling Juve “dummies” was Buffon in saying

*”…The goal we conceded? Lately I’ve been letting in some beautiful goals.”*

I suppose that’s better than letting in ugly goals.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:09:15 +0000

Nedved repeatedly gave the ball away and is becoming they type of player that will do 2-3 good things a game. The goal he scored was not on his part but rather on Grygera’s part, Grygera did all the hard work Nedved just had to tap it in. He should not start anymore, could be a great sub though.

Ranieri should of made more changes, after seeing Fiorentina set up camp in our penalty box for a good 10-15 min something had to be done. Fiorentina had attack after attack and one of them was bound to go in and it did. Poulsen played CB at Seville at times, if hes not bringing in a defender he could of atleast moved Poulsen back. Fiorentina took control of the game and Ranieri’s changes should of been earlier.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:52:08 +0000

I thought Nedved was good most of the match, and ADP was wasteful. I don’t blame Ranieri. Optimally in that kind of position, around the 80th minute you send in some defensive-minded players, particularly DMs. It’s a horrible idea to do it around 65′ or so to consolidate a lead. But for obvious reasons he couldn’t send in Zanetti or Sissoko. Everyone was playing well defensively yesterday, it wasn’t a problem of tactics, Mellberg just got beat. Can’t plan around one player’s failures, except to haul him off. Legro marked Gila out beautifully for 88 minutes.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:48:09 +0000

Marco, I am, unfortunately. Un po’ sfortunato, eh?

I saw Cobolli’s interview on Sky, now that I’m back home we have RAI and Sky. Pretty funny stuff, I couldn’t believe it either. I don’t know if it was sheer malice or more to annoy him or what the hell is going on…

By: adam

adam — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:46:47 +0000

We should have won the game easily yesterday. Nedved was bad. Del Piero and Amauri wasted too many chances, had too many touches on the ball and were selfish at times.

Iaquinta should of came on earlier in the second half for Del Piero and Giovinco should of started the second half instead of Nedved.

What lost us the game was Ranieri’s coaching abilities, how can any coach leave players that played like Nedved, Del Piero, or Amauri on the whole match when you have the likes of Iaquinta and Giovinco on the bench. Hell even Tiago was there.

By: Marco Pantanella

Marco Pantanella — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:26:15 +0000

alessio said:
Prediction: (…) I’m calling a 1-1 draw (…).

Alessio, are you familiar with the Italian term “gufare”… ?

Daniel said:
haha apparantly Tiago locked Cobolli Gigli inside a washroom for over an hour!!

At first, I thought this was some more horsecrap invented by goal.com, but apparently several other more “trustworthy” sites are also reporting this:
http://it.eurosport.yahoo.com/31082008/44/cobolli-gigli-tiago-mi-chiuso-in-bagno.html

We’ve really hit rock-bottom with this guy…

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:56:03 +0000

2 Juventini made Goal.com Serie A team of the week, and I agree:

Zdenek Grygera- 7.5, Juventus 1-1 Fiorentina
The Czech defender has discovered that he can be an assist man as well as brilliant stopper. He always seemed to find space behind Fiorentina’s back line undetected. Indeed, he muscled his way into the box to set up Pavel Nedved’s opener.

Nicola Legrottaglie- 7.0, Juventus 1-1 Fiorentina
The former Siena man has taken full responsibility at the back in Giorgio Chiellini’s absence. Was a commanding presence and kept Alberto Gilardino quiet for most of the game. Broke up the play and kept things organised.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:48:57 +0000

Yeah, Johonna. I’m still in Washington DC, I’ve been here for about 8-9 hours now, but I’m on a flight at 10pm, should get home around midnight already. Thanks to the mandatory evac for the entire city, instead of wednesday at the earliest I can’t go back until next sunday. It sucks, but so it goes.

When we got off the plane in DC, the flight attendant was saying goodbye and she said “Thank you” to me. I responded,” Thank YOU for getting me the hell out of there!”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:11:15 +0000

haha apparantly Tiago locked Cobolli Gigli inside a washroom for over an hour!!

Thats hilarious!! He’s so getting transfered!

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=843423

By: Johonna

Johonna — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:52:44 +0000

Hey Alessio, did you finally make it somewhere safe?