First off: Massive kudos to Bayern. They play a hefty game of football. Every pass is spot on, their pressing play is out of the world, the fantasy in their front line is mind boggling.
Time to get dirty:
The only Juve players who should not bow their heads in shame are: Giovinco, Vucinic & Vidal.
Pirlo and Buffon, the two players we have with most European caps experience played absolute howlers. Buffon couldn't do anything about the first goal, but he was absolutely dreadful throughout the game. Boxing when he should catch, not commanding his space on corners and gifting them a goal which pretty much sealed the deal. Absolute howler from him, and Pirlo was almost just as bad. He gave the ball away on so many occasions that I lost count after 60 minutes - the very worst game he's played in a Juventus shirt.
Quags & Matri did what I expected them to do: fuck all. They are both good strikers for the average Serie A opposition, playing them together against the lesser teams in Serie A works because they both have decent enough physique. When you're pressed by arguably the best team in Europe they are at the very bottom of the list of strikers you want on your team. Even the balls that Pirlo got through the Bayern pressuring they squandered away, often resulting in dangerous counter attacks. To all the people day dreaming out there it should be painstakingly obvious that we simply can't play against quality sides without Vucinic in attack. The single chance we created was from him and I think that we would've had a few more had he started - but I guess he was sick so there's nothing to do there.
All in all, 5-0 would've been a more fair result than 2-1. That's how outplayed we were.
The hopefull part:
We need to shift to a 4-3-3 next game, with Vucinic on the LW and Seba on the RW. Keep them high up the pitch and pray to god that our defenders don't sleep throughout the game again. Matri or Quags as the single striker, it makes little difference - we need to attack them from the flanks as their fullbacks are on our side of the pitch throughout the game.
Pirlo needs to get his head out of his fucking ass in the next game. He played like a drugged donkey today, despicable.
Time to get dirty:
The only Juve players who should not bow their heads in shame are: Giovinco, Vucinic & Vidal.
Pirlo and Buffon, the two players we have with most European caps experience played absolute howlers. Buffon couldn't do anything about the first goal, but he was absolutely dreadful throughout the game. Boxing when he should catch, not commanding his space on corners and gifting them a goal which pretty much sealed the deal. Absolute howler from him, and Pirlo was almost just as bad. He gave the ball away on so many occasions that I lost count after 60 minutes - the very worst game he's played in a Juventus shirt.
Quags & Matri did what I expected them to do: fuck all. They are both good strikers for the average Serie A opposition, playing them together against the lesser teams in Serie A works because they both have decent enough physique. When you're pressed by arguably the best team in Europe they are at the very bottom of the list of strikers you want on your team. Even the balls that Pirlo got through the Bayern pressuring they squandered away, often resulting in dangerous counter attacks. To all the people day dreaming out there it should be painstakingly obvious that we simply can't play against quality sides without Vucinic in attack. The single chance we created was from him and I think that we would've had a few more had he started - but I guess he was sick so there's nothing to do there.
All in all, 5-0 would've been a more fair result than 2-1. That's how outplayed we were.
The hopefull part:
We need to shift to a 4-3-3 next game, with Vucinic on the LW and Seba on the RW. Keep them high up the pitch and pray to god that our defenders don't sleep throughout the game again. Matri or Quags as the single striker, it makes little difference - we need to attack them from the flanks as their fullbacks are on our side of the pitch throughout the game.
Pirlo needs to get his head out of his fucking ass in the next game. He played like a drugged donkey today, despicable.
