[CL] Atletico Madrid 1-0 JUVENTUS (October 1st 2014) (11 Viewers)

Man of the match

  • Buffon

  • Chiellini

  • Bonucci

  • Caceres

  • Evra

  • Marchisio

  • Vidal

  • Pogba

  • Licht

  • Tevez

  • Llorente

  • Pereyra


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Hydde

Minimiliano Tristelli
Mar 6, 2003
38,990
this, i know you meant us being intimidated, but i want to talk about the opposite, you had the same problem in serie A until conte came here. teams would lose to juventus before game evens starts, we need to get some of that back in CL.
This true also. Teams have lost oo much respect for us in the recent years. I hated how Shaktar and Galata specially bothered us.

If the midfield does its job properly there need not be huge pressure on the defenders for any sort of extended period of time.
Listen guys, heres the thing. Both styles of play will have their pros and cons..... the thing is tht we are bad at soking up damage AND trying to score from counters. Well it was the case last year when we were able to get hold of the ball but could do shid with it....and whenwe were trailing this issue ended in disaster, with us unable to score.

If we take the game to them...they will pretty much sit and wait to counter, but contrary to serie A, in CL teams know how to counter and have the players for it.

If you ask me, i would abuse the fact that they need to get a result against us in front of their people. I would use speedy players on counters like Coman, morata and Gio. Llorente would be useless for us in this case. But im pretty sure we will go out with the tried and tested tevez-Lorente. Im just hoping that Allegri will have all kinf of plans depending on how the game develops. The good thing, is that contrary to last season when we had zero counter attacking players (we had gio but conte used him as an SS).... now we have 3 players, maybe 4 including Tevez. SO it all depends on whats goig on.

Please allegri get it right



He could mean trouble indeed.
 

MikeM

Footballing Hipster celebrating 4th place with Tuz
Sep 21, 2008
12,850
I fucking knew Simeone would change formation for us. He even practiced it last game against Sevilla. Our 3-5-2 has an advantage against their usual 4-4-2. The strikers can be man-marked with our sweeper free in behind them. And they can't sufficiently press our CBs. We could keep possession with ease.

Of course my fears are confirmed and he's going to deploy wingers. Now I'm scared. :scared:
 

Mister

Senior Member
Apr 4, 2014
5,742
Allegri: Atleti reflect Simeone

We must put in a great performance and try to come home with a positive result. It’s going to be a difficult game, as Atletico Madrid make sporting aggression and set plays their biggest strengths.

I expect it to be a very technical match. This team reflects Simeone’s character with incredible mental strength, unity and pressing for 95 minutes.

Let’s not forget Simeone led this team to victory in La Liga, losing the Champions League Final by just one minute.

Curiously, Allegri was supposed to face Atletico Madrid in February, but Milan fired him before the games could be played and so Clarence Seedorf was on the bench.

The draw has given me the opportunity to take on Atletico Madrid after all, smiled the Coach.

Andrea Pirlo, Andrea Barzagli and Romulo are out of action, but Allegri is keeping fans guessing on who will partner Carlos Tevez.

I will decide between Llorente and Morata in attack. Morata did well coming off the bench on Saturday against Atalanta, scored his first goal and I was very happy with that.

Caceres could come back into the line-up. This will be a particularly good test for our defenders against very physical strikers like Mandzukic.

Allegri was asked what his target was in this Champions League season, but would not be drawn into making statements.

We should not set ourselves objectives, but simply do our best. The absolute minimum is to get through to the next round, then we’ll see how far we can go.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,259
In light of Pep's brilliance today, I suggest we try the following:

Buffon

Caceres - Bonucci - Chiellini

Vidal - Marchisio - Evra

Pererya - Pogba - Asamoah

Tevez
 

AOD4

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2004
3,861
Regardless of ATM winning La Liga last season, everyone here considers them the third best in La Liga and already they have lost a number of players over the summer.
So Serie A record breakers vs La Liga 3rd place chumps. Let see how it goes.
 

Suns

Release clause?
May 22, 2009
22,090
In light of Pep's brilliance today, I suggest we try the following:

Buffon

Caceres - Bonucci - Chiellini

Vidal - Marchisio - Evra

Pererya - Pogba - Asamoah

Tevez
That is way too defensive compared to what Pep used today. It's more like:



Buffon

Caceres - Bonucci - Chiellini

Vidal - Marchisio - Pogba

Pereyra - Tevez - Giovinco

Llorente​
 

piotrr

Мodеrator
Sep 13, 2011
34,009
In light of Pep's brilliance today, I suggest we try the following:

Buffon

Caceres - Bonucci - Chiellini

Vidal - Marchisio - Evra

Pererya - Pogba - Asamoah

Tevez
How about some other Pep's brilliance?

Buffon

Licht - Chiellini - Vidal - Evra

Asamoah - Marchisio - Pogba
Pererya - Coman

Giovinco​
 
Aug 26, 2014
2,495
he needs to start instead of Evra but we'll see what Allegri thinks. And if we play like Roma with no fear we could win this easily but it's like we have some blockade when we play in the CL
 

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