Category: <b>General</b><br><br>The mood among Juve fans is not too good right now. Next Wednesday's second leg of the Champions League match with Arsenal will take place in Turin, but no one's looking forward to it with much other than trepidation. Juventus will be without their two red-carded players, Camo and Zebina, plus Vieira who was booked and also faces a suspension, but their absense aside, the 2-0 lead Arsenal take into the game, not to mention the manner in which they clocked it up, has Juve running scared.
Pavel <b>Nedved</b> certainly reflects that attitude. Suspended for the first leg, he spoke to Czech television about Juve's Champions League prospects. "It will be very difficult to make something of it, maybe it's already over," he said morosely. Juve's performance last night doesn't inspire confidense in him either, "We showed nothing, we were harmless in almost every attack... We did absolutely nothing. To be honest, I am not looking forward to the second leg... now it will be really hard."
Juve manager Fabio <b>Capello</b> is more diplomatic about it all, "We weren't able to make the last pass. For the second leg we will have to be confident. We need to play with guts and determination, even if I must say this Arsenal, who arrived from ten days' rest, showed freshness this evening," said Capello, but he admitted, "It's a heavy result."
The Arsenal manager and players, for their part, aren't ready to send out the reserves just yet. Robért <b>Píres</b> spoke of Juve's famous resilience and luck, "For the qualification, we will remain cautious and focused. Juventus is always a team which has luck and success, they always qualify in the end, as they proved against Werder."
Former Juve player Thierry <b>Henry</b> fell back on cliches, "It's only 'half-time'. We've done what we had to at home - not concede a goal - and now we have a difficult game ahead over there," as did Cesc <b>Fabregas</b>, "Now is just 'half-time' in the game and we'll see what happens there. If you look at the way we played, we dominated the game. We scored two, it's a good result, but it's not finished yet. But we have to respect the game and respect Juventus for who they are. If you go there and think you are in the Semi-Finals then you are wrong. Pavel Nedved is going to come back and I don’t know who else. These teams have big players on the bench and in the squad. They will be ready to play the game again.
You get the feeling that maybe <b>Wenger</b>'s postmatch talk was a restrained one. Certainly, he's giving nothing away to the press, with his charactoristically dry commentary on Arsenal's chances, "We want first to go through against Juventus, there is still the difficult part to do. I feel we have done half of the job and of course we want to finish the job next week. Juventus at home will of course try and come at us but we will try again to go out there and try to score goals. I rate our chances 50/50 to go through... believe we will finish the job at Juventus but there is still a lot to come, you know."
50/50, or already over? It's hard to tell in the Champions League, especially with the mercurial Arsenal away from home at fortress Turin. Perhaps it's best to wrap up with one more quote from Fabregas, “Now we will see what happens in Turin.”<br><br>Source: arsenal-mania.com, arsenal.com, football365.com, skysports.com
Pavel <b>Nedved</b> certainly reflects that attitude. Suspended for the first leg, he spoke to Czech television about Juve's Champions League prospects. "It will be very difficult to make something of it, maybe it's already over," he said morosely. Juve's performance last night doesn't inspire confidense in him either, "We showed nothing, we were harmless in almost every attack... We did absolutely nothing. To be honest, I am not looking forward to the second leg... now it will be really hard."
Juve manager Fabio <b>Capello</b> is more diplomatic about it all, "We weren't able to make the last pass. For the second leg we will have to be confident. We need to play with guts and determination, even if I must say this Arsenal, who arrived from ten days' rest, showed freshness this evening," said Capello, but he admitted, "It's a heavy result."
The Arsenal manager and players, for their part, aren't ready to send out the reserves just yet. Robért <b>Píres</b> spoke of Juve's famous resilience and luck, "For the qualification, we will remain cautious and focused. Juventus is always a team which has luck and success, they always qualify in the end, as they proved against Werder."
Former Juve player Thierry <b>Henry</b> fell back on cliches, "It's only 'half-time'. We've done what we had to at home - not concede a goal - and now we have a difficult game ahead over there," as did Cesc <b>Fabregas</b>, "Now is just 'half-time' in the game and we'll see what happens there. If you look at the way we played, we dominated the game. We scored two, it's a good result, but it's not finished yet. But we have to respect the game and respect Juventus for who they are. If you go there and think you are in the Semi-Finals then you are wrong. Pavel Nedved is going to come back and I don’t know who else. These teams have big players on the bench and in the squad. They will be ready to play the game again.
You get the feeling that maybe <b>Wenger</b>'s postmatch talk was a restrained one. Certainly, he's giving nothing away to the press, with his charactoristically dry commentary on Arsenal's chances, "We want first to go through against Juventus, there is still the difficult part to do. I feel we have done half of the job and of course we want to finish the job next week. Juventus at home will of course try and come at us but we will try again to go out there and try to score goals. I rate our chances 50/50 to go through... believe we will finish the job at Juventus but there is still a lot to come, you know."
50/50, or already over? It's hard to tell in the Champions League, especially with the mercurial Arsenal away from home at fortress Turin. Perhaps it's best to wrap up with one more quote from Fabregas, “Now we will see what happens in Turin.”<br><br>Source: arsenal-mania.com, arsenal.com, football365.com, skysports.com
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