[Champions League] Real Madrid vs JUVENTUS (11/05/08) (21 Viewers)
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No, but I think going for the win is a given. It's not something we plan for as opposed to something else, obviously when a team plays, it plays to win.
i think we should play a little more conservatively than most people's liking. They are going to attack us from the very beggining and we can't afford to give away any open spaces.
If we play defensively sound and reasonable tactics, we can hit them hard on the counterattacks with Amauri and Giovinco. We are going for the win, but a draw would be more than acceptable. We have to be realistic in such games.
i think we should play a little more conservatively than most people's liking. They are going to attack us from the very beggining and we can't afford to give away any open spaces.
If we play defensively sound and reasonable tactics, we can hit them hard on the counterattacks with Amauri and Giovinco. We are going for the win, but a draw would be more than acceptable. We have to be realistic in such games.
Let's not lie to oursleves here, Juve are no Arsenal or Barcelona. We aren't exactly a naturally attacking side, far from it. Like Rab said, I think we need not to let our guard down, we need to be very careful.
That's the difference between playing a team like Empoli and playing a team like Real Madrid. You don't approach the two games with the same blind attacking mindsets, you need to be a lot more reasonable. we can afford to do so against Empoli, but surely not against Madrid.
Say we did go into the game with an offensive formation, who do you think will win the offensive battle? Let's not even start comparing the two squads, especially defensively.
That's the difference between playing a team like Empoli and playing a team like Real Madrid. You don't approach the two games with the same blind attacking mindsets, you need to be a lot more reasonable. we can afford to do so against Empoli, but surely not against Madrid.
Say we did go into the game with an offensive formation, who do you think will win the offensive battle? Let's not even start comparing the two squads, especially defensively.
Juve are a balanced team and always will be...Juve's attacking play and Barca/Arsenal's attacking play are very different things...basically, I don't want us to play like we did vs. Napoli and start camping in our own half...as for a change in formation, we have done it once this season, and I don't see it happening again anytime soon
@ Tinkerman, I'm sure he is suffering more than us 'cos he doesn't have enough fit players to tinker with
I don't care if we'll play catenaccio for 90 minutes and win with 40m fk by Ale 
we're going to play in madrid, against better team (right now), and many of our players are not fit. we must play carefully.
by the way, after the first match, one of the spanish newspapers' headline was 'catenaccio and del piero'. i wish for a repeat.
we're going to play in madrid, against better team (right now), and many of our players are not fit. we must play carefully.
by the way, after the first match, one of the spanish newspapers' headline was 'catenaccio and del piero'. i wish for a repeat.
We should play just like we played away to other favorites last year. Milan, Inter, Roma etc.
We were the underdogs but we didn't give up back then and we didn't play catenaccio.
Imo, Madrid aren't better than last year's Inter and Roma and they don't have more talent than last year's AC Milan.
A defeat won't be a catastrophe and that's exactly why we shouldn't feel any pressure. But a win is almost a must for Real because they'll risk losing the top spot in the group if they don't beat us. Losing the top spot means facing Manchester, Chelsea, Bayern and the likes.
We were the underdogs but we didn't give up back then and we didn't play catenaccio.
Imo, Madrid aren't better than last year's Inter and Roma and they don't have more talent than last year's AC Milan.
A defeat won't be a catastrophe and that's exactly why we shouldn't feel any pressure. But a win is almost a must for Real because they'll risk losing the top spot in the group if they don't beat us. Losing the top spot means facing Manchester, Chelsea, Bayern and the likes.
