Well, not entirely sure what to make of that.
Bayern played okay and pressed reasonably well, but I thought Juve were pretty terrible.
It was apparent from early on that Bayern intended to step up the pitch to make it hard for Juve to play out from that back. However, they weren't pressing particularly ferociously or committing all that many players to the pressing. I thought Juve, with a little bit of guile, really ought to have been able to find a way to play out from the back.
However, once it was clear Juve were struggling to play out from the back, I didn't understand them not going longer: either playing short first, and inviting the Bayern press before going long long; or just going long straight away. Now, I wouldn't have expected Matri or Quagliarella to do a particularly fantastic job of holding the ball up, but if they put in a decent challenge, they could at least make it a situation where the ball was just dropping loose in midfield and Juve would have had the chance to pick up a reasonable number of those loose balls. Or Juve could have gone longer than that and looked for Matri to run in behind Bayern. That would have allowed Juve some sort of territory at times and would have given them the opportunity to try and press Bayern in their own half a little more often.That plan would at least have stopped giving the ball away in dangerous areas the way they did so often through the game - particularly in the fist half.
At half time, with things not going well, I didn't understand Conte not making a change. Juve, the way they were playing, might as well have only had nine men on the field because Matri and Quagliarella were not able to contribute anything. If Juve weren't going to play longer, I thought they should have gone to the 3-5-1-1 that had been spoken about a lot before the game, so that they at least had an extra body in midfield and only one player standing on the halfway line not contributing.
The only positives to be taken from the game are that Juve didn't capitulate after conceding early and that they did look capable of withstanding what Bayern had to throw at them on the occasions when Bayern were attacking in more normal circumstances and not when Juve had gifted them possession within thirty yards of goal.
Vucinic not being fit was clearly a huge blow given how reliant Juve are on him for ball retention, so it wasn't a surprise to see Juve struggling as they did. To take the weakest area of Juve's team and make it even weaker did mean that Bayern looked the clearly superior team on paper going into the game, where I don't think there is a big gap between the sides when both are at full strength. Llorente joining Juve in the summer should make Juve much harder for teams to press them, because they should be able to go long to him and play from there if playing out from the back is proving difficult.