[Champions League] Chelsea 1-0 JUVENTUS (02/25/09) (18 Viewers)
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I cannot say that i am satisfied, but this defeat was kind of... well, expected...
Chelsea is a far better team and chances where that they are going to outclass us. Everything is possible in football though...
Unfortunately the change of coach did not affected their teamwork enough, to deny the effects of their superior quality/skills.
We were outplayed in all the lines, Chelsea was controlling the game from the beginning, it was only a matter of time our weak defense would break and concede one...
And it happened with the usual way, a vertical pass that broke our off side trap. The dense defense with the overcrowded center has been been broken many times this way. It seems that someone studied our play and our weaknesses.
After Chelsea got what they wanted they fall ball confident that the job is done and betting that we are unable to score, hence even threaten them with an orthodox attack.
Unfortunately for us, it was proved out, they were right.
Chiellini's return wasnt enough too make us bulletproof in the back, as it is against lesser competition, our weak defense has been exposed and the whole europe has seen the Chelsea players abusing our...defenders...
Hopefully Secco did too!!
CR chose the best possible formation, he took absolutely no risks there!
He kept the balanced 1 DM+1 CM formula and luckily for us, old-Neddy wasnt tired enough, surprisingly, he didnt collapsed, but he did outrunned each and everyone of our field players and marked more kms than any body else!
Even the usual disaster, Marchionni wasnt half bad today.
But the extra smth, the sparkle wasnt there, the only man capable of offering this is Camo, maybe with a bit help of Tiago, but they were...disappointing.
I expected more from them, but the service to our forward line was totally absent.
IMO Chiellini and Camo were the players that could help us to close the gap and make that leap of quality, that we lacked the previous days, they were our best chance, but it wasnt their day...
Chelsea put the pressure on us and our average quality team, just couldnt handle it.
We lost it completely out there, we were unfocused, we couldnt cope with their tactical pace, we didnt know what to with the ball.
We couldnt even stick to the simple things, safe passes and clean interceptions.
Let alone tactical plans...
That level is way beyond our league, but its ok we werent supposed to be here at the first place.
We have to stick to our five decade plan and enjoy the CL experience, as a nearly promoted team. We have gained some valuable exp!
This result means we are already disqualified, Chelsea will easily score at least one goal in 90' and there is noway that we will score 3 back.
If it was a loss with a 2-1, we could still hope for a miracle, now we can only hope that we will not get an English team so early in the semis next year...
Even with more players like Poulsen, we cannot face them with this formation!
We would rather face more attacking minded teams, Chelsea and Pool can beat us any time, the reasons have been made clear since the Capello days...
Chelsea is a far better team and chances where that they are going to outclass us. Everything is possible in football though...
Unfortunately the change of coach did not affected their teamwork enough, to deny the effects of their superior quality/skills.
We were outplayed in all the lines, Chelsea was controlling the game from the beginning, it was only a matter of time our weak defense would break and concede one...
And it happened with the usual way, a vertical pass that broke our off side trap. The dense defense with the overcrowded center has been been broken many times this way. It seems that someone studied our play and our weaknesses.
After Chelsea got what they wanted they fall ball confident that the job is done and betting that we are unable to score, hence even threaten them with an orthodox attack.
Unfortunately for us, it was proved out, they were right.
Chiellini's return wasnt enough too make us bulletproof in the back, as it is against lesser competition, our weak defense has been exposed and the whole europe has seen the Chelsea players abusing our...defenders...
Hopefully Secco did too!!
CR chose the best possible formation, he took absolutely no risks there!
He kept the balanced 1 DM+1 CM formula and luckily for us, old-Neddy wasnt tired enough, surprisingly, he didnt collapsed, but he did outrunned each and everyone of our field players and marked more kms than any body else!
Even the usual disaster, Marchionni wasnt half bad today.
But the extra smth, the sparkle wasnt there, the only man capable of offering this is Camo, maybe with a bit help of Tiago, but they were...disappointing.
I expected more from them, but the service to our forward line was totally absent.
IMO Chiellini and Camo were the players that could help us to close the gap and make that leap of quality, that we lacked the previous days, they were our best chance, but it wasnt their day...
Chelsea put the pressure on us and our average quality team, just couldnt handle it.
We lost it completely out there, we were unfocused, we couldnt cope with their tactical pace, we didnt know what to with the ball.
We couldnt even stick to the simple things, safe passes and clean interceptions.
Let alone tactical plans...
That level is way beyond our league, but its ok we werent supposed to be here at the first place.
We have to stick to our five decade plan and enjoy the CL experience, as a nearly promoted team. We have gained some valuable exp!
This result means we are already disqualified, Chelsea will easily score at least one goal in 90' and there is noway that we will score 3 back.
If it was a loss with a 2-1, we could still hope for a miracle, now we can only hope that we will not get an English team so early in the semis next year...
Even with more players like Poulsen, we cannot face them with this formation!
We would rather face more attacking minded teams, Chelsea and Pool can beat us any time, the reasons have been made clear since the Capello days...
Should I have this too
Well I told you before the match, so yes
Trez instead of Amauri and Marchisio instead of Tiago, remember?But he should have been brought much earlier, you can't deny that!
I second that! We have to play more defensive (that 4-3-3), we should score a goal and sit back, just like the last Barcelona match. Hiddink didn't play defensive for nothing, he could have played more offensive and score the second, but he could risk conceding a goal that way, and it wasn't going to be this good for him now if he did that. He got a great result, and I am sure he will play to score a goal at least in Torino..
Both teams completely canceled eachother after Drogba's goal.
I'm talking about the first half because i just finished watching it. Chelsea weren't faster and they certainly didn't control the match.
Now i'll watch the second half, but apart from the first 10-15 minutes, the first half was absolutely equal.
I don't think Chelsea defended the result from minute 10. It's not true. No serious team does that so early. They didn't sit back and wait for counters.
The truth is, we woke up and we made it harder for them.
I'm talking about the first half because i just finished watching it. Chelsea weren't faster and they certainly didn't control the match.
Now i'll watch the second half, but apart from the first 10-15 minutes, the first half was absolutely equal.
I don't think Chelsea defended the result from minute 10. It's not true. No serious team does that so early. They didn't sit back and wait for counters.
The truth is, we woke up and we made it harder for them.
Call me crazy but a formation that i would love to try against chelsea would be a 5-3-2 that flips to a 3-5-2 alternately. however we just dont have the sort of players for ranieri to switch formations around i think we will continue with a 4-4-2 in the second leg and optionally increasing the numbers up front towards the end... quite symmetrical to what happened today.
shut up you muppet, i think it's a disgrace our squad is so poor, but at least i'm intelligent enough to realise that the team is crap. Your so blind that you don't realise that were not good and then bitch because we dont beat chelsea at stamford bridge. 5 years down the line we need to be winning serie a and competing for the CL, RIGHT NOW we're not good enough to do that, so its just plain stupid to think we are
You might not agree on starting with Trez, and I understand that very good (because of Amauri's better physically and defensively maybe too), but at least we agree that he should have come in much earlier. I would even bring him at the start of second half, because 1-0 away is very very hard result for return match, if it was 2-1 it was much better.
If we concede a goal in Torino, we will be Dooooooomed like my man Cronios says
If we concede a goal in Torino, we will be Dooooooomed like my man Cronios says