Maybe I praised the change of mentality to early..............
but first of all, the players who feels they should take tke penalties, should do it, so thats probably way Zala and Montero was amoung them five. But I most admit I was suprised to see that Zala took one.
and yes I said to myself he going to miss it or to be honest i shouted he is going to miss it.
But we didn´t lose the beacuase of that, penalties is all down to to luck and nerves.
We lost beacuse we switched back to the old italian mentality, the fear of losing. In the beginning of the when Milan was really controlling the game I thought it might be a tactical decision from Lippi, that we should let them controll the game for the first 10-15 minutes. Maybe because he thought they would attack with many players coming forward and then we would counter attack. But as the first half progressed Milan kept up the pressure, even if we were not outplayed. We didn´t have a passing game at all.
The only time we managed to controll game was the first 10 minutes of the second half. Then my hopes of actually winning the game was rapidly getting higher. but from the 55-58 min until the penalities almost nothing happened from both sides.
They all said this was going to be spectcular game, but the critics of italian football most definetly won this round!
This might sound crazy, but I thought that it was positive when Real madrid scored that second one.
So with all the facts in hand, I really wished that Sheva goal hadn´t
been cancelled.
Lippis mistakes?
Well I think he wanted to have the best players on the pitch and since Tudor is an overall better player than Birindelli. So thats why he opt to play Montero on the left side, nothing wrong with that. He decided to take Camo out of the game, and even if I really dont think Camo was worse than the rest, I have no problem with this, the sad thing is that we didnt have any better player than Conte to throw in. He didnt play bad at all. But Milan had players like Rivaldo and Ambrosini as midfield subs and even a player like Redondo whom I feel isn´t as good as he used to be, would surely contribute in such a big game. Se my point
Davids got injured so we had to replace him, and this was our last subsitution and having in mind that we had no midfield subs left, putting on a forward was probably the right thing do. Some say it should of been Di vaio, but Di viao has been awful lately, and Zala has managed to score in the last two games. So the decision was probably not that hard. And some say Zala played bad, but he played at the same level as he always does. The guy isn´t better than this, so we shouldn´t complain, at least he played to his ability, something that cant be said about all of our players.
But with the facts in hand, playing Pessotto to the left in midfeild might have been a wiser choice. Because we were tactically a mess last night when we played 3 upfront. Dp didnt link with the midfeilders at all. So playing with four men in midfield with Pessotto to the left would surely not improve our offence. But we were not attacking anyway just making those discusting long balls, so at least it would made it easier for Juve to closed them down. And I admit that I would of been of them who would heavily critisis LIppi for putting on Pessotto instead of a attacker
. but as I said we were not attacking anyway so....................................................................................................
But the big mistake Lippi made was when Rogue Junior got injured. Why didn´t he swap Zambro and Contes positions? I´m pretty sure it was because he wanted Zambro to help Thuram contain Serginho, even if its understandable, the fear of losing was shown again
. But why not play Del Piero in his old favourite position to the left then? or at least concentrait our attacts to the left instead of those long balls? We had the change to take controll of the game, but we didn´t dare to. And this is why we didnt win the game!
Many complained about Trez in the match thread. I dont understand why? We all know that Trez needs help from his teammates to score goals. So if he isn´t getting the passes what is he supposed to do? I can only recall one good cross from 120 minutes of football, Trez cant dribble, he cant pass etc etc, but we all knew this, so what new about that? And he scores goals when he is given the opportunity to do so. Dont forget he scored two important goals agianst Real madrid, with the help of his teammates of course, but he didnt let us down when he got the oppotunity to score. Dp didn´t play bad but he didn´t play good either. He cant do it all by himself, but i was ecpecting a lot more from him, especially when Nedved was suspended. Nedved played even better than he had done before, when Dp was injured, proving how big of player he really is. Sad to say the "no big game", player tag remains on Dp.
Something that surely cant be said about Buffon, the bigger the game gets, the better Buffon gets. Thank yuo Buffon, respect!
Got ot give praise to Ferrara as well.
But the sad thing is that none of the teams seemed to have that Cl finals inspiration, ecxept for Buffon and Gattuso, you got the love the Gattuso figthing spirit.
I guees the fear of losing to took the upper hand.
Btw had we won, we hadn´t done it with style and even if winning is the most important and the joy would of been the same, i would of still had that bitter taste in my mouth. Winning as we did against Real madrid gives more satisfaction, you have to admit that. Its a shame that the REal madrid game wont mean anything know. Could of been a classic Juve game.
Congrats MIlan the most positive side won, or maybe I should say the less negative team won
Hopefully we will be back again next year.
Forza Juve
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