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Hardly. Neither manager managed to do anything to really take charge of the game or create any number of chances. Juve only won the game because the Napoli players fucked up the defending of the corner. You could hardly say that Mazzarri had 'tactically owned' Conte if Cavani's shot off the...

Thought Juve played in much the same way as they did in the 3-0 home win last season. Played deeper than normal, denied Napoli space, didn't commit men ahead of the ball and waited patiently for the chance to present itself to get the goal. In both cases the first goal came from shoddy...

Ye of little faith. :D - - - Updated - - - Don't think I could come up with a man of the match for Juve, as it was just a really solid team performance without anyone being particularly outstanding. Thought Inler was probably the best player on the park.

Good solid performance from Juve last night. Nothing spectacular, but the tactics were appropriate and the players did a good job of denying Napoli counter-attacking chances by ensuring Juve very rarely got caught with any number of players wrong side of the ball. That just reduced the...

With Vucinic there doesn't seem to be any prospect of him being fit to start the game. Will be more of a question of whether he is fit enough to be on the bench and play for 15-20 minutes if he is needed. - - - Updated - - - Nah...

We will also evaluate whether to call Vucinic, as he is debilitated by a bout of flu... - Carrera

Napoli don't tend to be fast starters either. They just want to ease themselves into the game and see how things develop, in general, rather than really trying to force a high tempo early on to try and catch a team cold. - - - Updated - - -...

I smell a 0-0 draw, with both teams avoiding taking risks, as both teams will be reasonably satisfied with a draw.

You think Juve were comfortable against Genoa and Fiorentina?

Nonsense. There's a reason that I'll be at Dundee Utd v Aberdeen. :P Juve game not being shown live suits me fine, since I would've missed it anyway. This way I'll get a re-run on ESPN at some point.

Napoli do have great attackers, but it has been shown time and again how much more comfortable they are playing against teams who give them the opportunity to counter-attack. While I think they are better playing packed defences now that they have Pandev playing instead of Lavezzi, I still...

I'd be pretty surprised if that wasn't the Juve team.

One would expect concentration levels to be much higher for a game like this one than they have been in general this season. And Juve's defence has mostly looked poor this season when playing high up the pitch and being exposed in big spaces. Playing deeper and having less of the ball should...

How do people want Juve to approach this game? Should Juve just play their normal game and try to dominate the way they did in the Super Coppa game? Personally, I'd be taking a pretty cautious approach to the game, because I thought that Juve took a lot of risks in the Super Coppa and left...