Comments on: VotD: La Vecchia Signora

By: KJ

KJ — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:45:26 +0000

adam, thats pretty damn accurate..And on the Giovinco thing, why doesnt he get more time? He played a full load in Serie A for Empoli so he has the Serie A experience…Hes not a freakin baby like Aquilani let the kid develop

By: adam

adam — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:44:30 +0000

This season our left side has been our biggest weakness and this is with no one being injured. Molinaro offers nothing except running 90min straight. Nedved has been playing one season too many, you can see it when he gets frustrated at not being able to catch up too the ball and his numerous bad crosses, passes, and shots. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, playing Molinaro and Nedved on the left will get us nowhere. It’s about time Giovinco became a starter.

By: roberto

roberto — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:03:55 +0000

Marco, our left-side was vulnerable at the very least. On a yellow, Molinaro becomes almost completely useless. His lack of speed was horribly exposed by Maggio in the first-half on one occasion, and his physical play as a defenseman became severely limited as you know, once he went in the ref’s books. It wouldn’t be impossible to see Nedved picking up some slack on the defensive end, but it looked to me as though our midfield was getting thinner and thinner as the second half wore on (with the exception of Marchisio).

With respect to taking ADP off, I think Ranieri made that call after his mind was made with De Ceglie. Playing with a 4-5-1 formation calls for a striker with good ball control and good shielding ability. Between ADP and Amauri, it’s a no brainer to me who’s has more to offer in that regard. Come tomorrow though, Ranieri will definitely not leave Alex in Vinovo lol. These sensitive times call for leadership to guide us through, and ADP has it in spades.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:51:08 +0000

John, I’m sort of looking forward to the match. I’ll be wearing my ADP jersey as well. (no Buffon, no Camoranesi, no Trez…and Balzaretti is no longer with the club) Yeah, the idea of a stunning win has crossed my mind but on the other hand I’ve been waiting for that kind of reaction for the last two weeks to no use.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:48:21 +0000

Nah, KJ, I just know everything because I’m a Juventino.

Yeah, injuries are a significant part of the game but this is unprecedented injuries. Ranieri has been coaching like shit and injuries are not the entire problem, he and the players are a significant part too. If we had our real XI out there, we’d be winning most of these games.

and realize Juve has not only underperformed to this point, but been a major disappointment.

Yeah, we’re all fucking well aware.

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:39:39 +0000

So…. Who’s looking forward to the match? Anyone think we can pull of a big upset? I know in recent seasons we have absoloutley dicked over Real when we’ve met ‘em in the European Cup, but with our horrific injury list I’m not as confident as I was in 03 or 05. Still, should be a very entertaining game and quite the spectical. Will have my lucky Del Piero top on Tomorrow just for that added bit of luck! We can do it, we are Juventus.

By: KJ

KJ — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:37:29 +0000

Alessio, I know you think you know everything being a snot-nosed college kid as it may be (ive been there as well, you still have ways to go) but you’re starting to sound too much like a romanista…injuries are part of the game.

You aren’t going to get sympathy out of anyone for having a high number of injuries. Just like i wouldn’t get sympathy for my Palermo having millions less to spend on players compared to Juve or Inter…You have freakin Giovinco on the bench..Time to look past the injury excuse and realize Juve has not only underperformed to this point, but been a major disappointment.

By: Marco Pantanella

Marco Pantanella — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:14:03 +0000

roberto wrote: Ranieri did say he was playing for the draw (which i agree is never a good thing… to admit at least) but he was correct in his approach to help our left-side bringing on a fifth midfielder in the form of our attacking defender De Ceglie.

roberto, from where I was standing our left-side was fine the way it was. If it was such a cause for concern, Ranieri could have asked Nedved to drop a little or Molinaro to stop pushing down the wing so much. Taking off Del Piero would have been justified only if Juve had been winning. And no, he wasn't playing like sh** like some people suggested - I'm an ADP fan, but am not totally blind: I will criticize him if he plays badly, but this wasn't the case Saturday (besides he was the only decent set pieces taker we had) Making that substitution with the match still tied and very much in the balance (it's not like Napoli were dominating ball possession or putting our box under siege) is just plain stupid. It's like saying: "ok, a home draw is good enough for us". Really?? Is this what we've come to? Boy I can't even imagine Ranieri's expectations for Real Madrid's game then. He should start with a 4-5-1 formation right from the get go, save Del Piero some time and leave him at Vinovo.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:48:53 +0000

I’m not that pessimistic (usually), but we can’t lose so many points if we want to play CL next season.

I’m not saying we have no chances to win our 30th scudetto this year (I’m Peruvian, if there is a naive fottball fan in the world, it has to be Peruvian… we really thought we had a chance to classify to Southafrica 2010, and now we are the worst/last team in south America), but if we don’t bounce back kind of soon… Let’s say that this year lots of teams are stronger than last year, and we are not one of them (not with half of our players spending more time with Agricola than in the field).

Well, we will always have January for reinforcements/injury healing/Trezeguet/god helping us…

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:14:45 +0000

we can use injury as excuse….depth is great and all, but if your reserves are injured too, can’t do much about it. if palermo was going through what we are now they’d be fielding a primavera XI