We were atrocious, nevertheless, definetely the greatest thing ever. I watched the match and here some very honest, personal player ratings:
Buffon: 7,5 Despite all their chances, he never looked like being beaten. Made a great save in the second half to keep us alive and looked professional throughout. I think goal.com said it best 'Juve are so lucky to have him'.
Molinaro: 4,5 Just nothing. Pure nothingness. He has great pace, but nothing to do with it. The era of De Ceglie has begun.
Legrotaglie: 7 Deserves some credit for keeping them out. He isn't perfect and I thought he was caught out a few times positionally. His effort and his tackles were important thought and also won everything in the air.
Chiellini: 8 I thought the Zenit forwards were pulling him out of position at times, hee is so strong though, he wins every challenge. He is the new symbol of Juve, his heart and determination and pure ability is the way we play. Just a beast on the night.
Grygera: 8,5 Superb. Honestly brilliant on the night. Won so many challenges and did so much running. I feared for him tonight, but he really produced and for all the criticism we give him when he does wrong, he deserves a lot of praise tonight. He added so much to how solid we were.
Nedved: 6 Just did not give us the performance we expected. You could see how nervous he was. Hopefully now we have won and debuted again he will calm down, but when Camo went off I expected him to step up and it didn't happen. He is a legend of this team, no question, and I hope to see him blast back to form.
Poulsen: 6 Good defensive positions, but just didn't offer anything else tonight. Momo was making the tackles, so Poulsen should have played some good passes or carried the ball forward. He's been good of late, but he seemed content sitting in the defensive midfiled position when we need someone to carry it forward. In fairness, maybe we needed to make sure we did not concede but we just don't have enough creativity in the centre of the park.
Momo: 7 Just a pain for them all night. He must be such a bitch to play against. Could not offer anytihng going forward but his tackles and committment were terrific. He had no positional sense, just ran man-to-man chasing the ball. It was contageous, he has really tightened us up in the middle of the park and, at least defensively, was great tonight.
Camo: 6 Just did not make enough of an impression as Zenit were defending tough. Without him though, and especially no giovinco, we have nothing to offer creatively. Massively missed when he came off.
Brazzo: 5 Long aimless balls and crazy tackles. Runs like nobody else though and to some extent effort must be appreciated.
Trezeguet: 5 Can only be effective in a team that is creating chances. Not his fault at all tonight. One decent ball in the middle may have sufficed. We just didn; produce it.
Del Piero: 8,5 Had moments of brilliance and then nothing. Also played some poor crosses if we are honest. His talent made him shine brighter than anything else on the pitch though. Some lovely trickery and the Zenit forwards could not deal with him. Then that moment, that glorious moment, just utterly superb. An amazing free-kick by a special man who deserved that moment.
De Ceglie: 6,5 Could not get forward as much as we could have hoped, but filled in well defensively and made himself known. He is better defensively than we think. He did enough tonight to win the starting position.
Amauri: n/a CR messed up by not putting him on earlier. If we are only playing long-balls, then he is our only striker who can control them and hold it up. Was lively when he came on and nearly created another goal. For even just a few minutes, did a great job for us.
Ok, that my ratings love em or hate em. Now i have to share something with my fellow Juve fans and I feel even a topic should be opened on this. Those idiotic sky (english) pundits. Hoddle, Gullit, Souness and Richard Keys. Talking about the Juve game they said:
- Juve would not challenge an English team and did not impress enough ( Despite the fact we had just beat a team that PUMPED manure).
- Del Piero, and get this, must have COPIED ronaldo's technique at hitting freekicks and the keeper was at fault. (OUTRAGEOUS, del was hittin those freekicks when ronaldo was playing kick-ups in madeira) If rooney had hit that free-kick, they would have sucked him off and called him the greatest.
-An all-english final definetely. Maybe true, maybe not. But on the evidence of that night when we beat one of the best teams in europe and inter thrash panathanaikos, contrasting with manure unable to win at home and arsenal are LUCKY to draw with Kiev the claim was a little premature and dare i say, a teeny weeny bit OUTRAGEOUDLY BIASED.
I hope that there are others, good juve fans here, who are sick of these narrow-minded opinions from guys who are getting paid thousands to tell me about football?!?! I would split their wages amongst all you guys, becuase this is where I learn about football.
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