Match review:
Juve enter a match with a must win situation.Capello decides on the starting 11. Surprises are found. WHY THE HELL ZEBINA? That was my first impression. During this season Zebina has featured in 4 matches in the serie A. All of them not 90 minutes, and couple only 20 min. He was injured. We risk such a player in such a tight match where you need 1000000% fit players. Why? I usually do not like to question great coaches because I know that there are things that let them act the way they do. Things that affects their decisions. But tonight I will question his decisions. Because his decisions was going to get us kicked out of the CL race (his so called primary objective). Last match against Samp, Balzaretti and Zambrotta played. They were ok. Why not field them tonight as well. Put Luca on the right and Balzaretti on the left. He also kept our most inform striker on the bench. Fieling Zlatan and Trezeguet, who are both coming out of injuries and missed last Saturday's match. So now we have 3 not fully fit players.
The match started and from the first minute you can tell that there is something wrong in the centre of the field. Maoro and Pavel were drifting too much to the inside to pick up the balls where "someone" should be doing this job for them. Obviously, Bremen controlled the midfield. They also controlled the flanks thanks to unfit Zebina and drifts of Maoro to fill in the gap in the midfield.
After 15 min it was clear. It's Vieira that is screwing things up in the midfield. Thuram looked really uncertain of his position. Where Fabio was not that impressive. Due to the fact the the midfield is not working. We started doing our classical boring and useless long balls. Zlatan tried. But he is not well in form PLUS he is not fully fit. As the minuites went by trezeguet faded away inside the Bremen deffense due to lack of support. Zambrotta was trying so hard but the players also did not help. He was running up and down the left flank like crazy.
Then from their first attack on our target. Vieira fails to return back to deffense. Zebina is lost and Thuram is not concetrated a 1 on 1 with buffon --> goal.
You think, ok we will show them now. You are wrong. We did not. We continued playing our pethetic long balls till the ref called half. 45 min of useless crap.
You'd expect that in HT Capello will take out Vieira and rbing in any other player to fill in the gap he is doing. Again you're wrong again. Same 11 continue to play. We start again with long balls which are useless. Then we shift slowly to more proper passing.
After 15 min of 2nd half. Capello thinks its time to do something. Now I have to give it him. He could've entered player, instead he replaced two players. Del Piero and Mutu are on the line waiting to come in. You come to think, Capello will replace Vieira and one of the strikers. Nooooo. He takes out Camoranesi and the clearly unfit for the match, yet had tried alot (we thank him for his hardwork), Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The team starts to play better. On the ground passes. Better creativity and chances. We waisted alot of chances. Trezeguet got 3 easy headers which he wasted. Emerson wasted an easy shot so did nedved.
We score a goal after a nice play. A ball comes to Alex and single touch to Trezeguet, a single touch to Nedved who is 1 on 1 with the keeper --> leaves it to David to shoot and score.
Capello decides to go for his third sub. Takes out Zambrotta and brings in Balzaretti. Immediatel Balzaretti showed his worth. He showed that he is a great player.
We continue on wasting chances till 2 min from the end when mutu crosses the ball the keeper fails to catch it properly and Emerson kicks it in to the goal.
End score.. 2-1.
Ratings
Buffon: Not tested very much except for one which needed a buffon to knock it out. Thank you. Thuram screwed up infront of the goal and buffon saved our asses. He takes no blame on the goal. For that I give him 7.
Zebina: Started off terribly. Then improved a bit in the last 30 min of the match. 5.5
Thuram: Lost. 5.0
Cannavaro: Partially lost 5.5
Zambrotta: MOM in the first half 7
Camoranesi: Tried, but midfield, especially Vieira was out of the question. With Also Zebina on his side you can't really blame him alot. 6
Vieira: Trashy performance 1 (1 because we won, otherwise it wouldve been 0)
Emerson: Started off sloppy, gained his performance as game went through. Wasted a stupid chance. Scored a very important lucky ball. 7
Nedved: Ran alot, an ok performance. Wasted some easy chances. 6.5
Zlatan: Tried also, but clearly unfit for the match 6
Trezeguet: Wasted alot of headers. Did not participate in the play during the fist hour. Played a good end 30 min when Del Piero and Mutu came in. You come to think that the problem was midfield supply. Scored an important goal. 6.5
Del Piero: Not a very brilliance performance from Alex. Did not have alot of time. The midfield was terrible. Managed to make the team player proper passes. Caused trouble to Bremen deffense. Trezeguet came alive, 6.5
Mutu: Ok performance.. 6.5
balzaretti: Although played around 15 min. But played them from his heart. Not a single mistake and pushed forward. Great man. 6.5
Capello: We won. But he will have to go thank Bremen's keeper. Bad starting line up. Not bad changes. 5.5
In summary: Rremen is a terrible team. They are not brilliant at all. Their deffense is weak and their goalkeeper is just luck that we are shooting in his face. We could've ended the away match with atleast 5 goals in our favour but we didn't. We could've ruled this match if fielded proper formation but we didn't. If we continue like this we will not win the CL. Fielding unfit players while infrom healthy players are on the bench. To tell you the trith, I respect you Capello but this is not looking good.
One more thing, Vieira is a flop.
Juve enter a match with a must win situation.Capello decides on the starting 11. Surprises are found. WHY THE HELL ZEBINA? That was my first impression. During this season Zebina has featured in 4 matches in the serie A. All of them not 90 minutes, and couple only 20 min. He was injured. We risk such a player in such a tight match where you need 1000000% fit players. Why? I usually do not like to question great coaches because I know that there are things that let them act the way they do. Things that affects their decisions. But tonight I will question his decisions. Because his decisions was going to get us kicked out of the CL race (his so called primary objective). Last match against Samp, Balzaretti and Zambrotta played. They were ok. Why not field them tonight as well. Put Luca on the right and Balzaretti on the left. He also kept our most inform striker on the bench. Fieling Zlatan and Trezeguet, who are both coming out of injuries and missed last Saturday's match. So now we have 3 not fully fit players.
The match started and from the first minute you can tell that there is something wrong in the centre of the field. Maoro and Pavel were drifting too much to the inside to pick up the balls where "someone" should be doing this job for them. Obviously, Bremen controlled the midfield. They also controlled the flanks thanks to unfit Zebina and drifts of Maoro to fill in the gap in the midfield.
After 15 min it was clear. It's Vieira that is screwing things up in the midfield. Thuram looked really uncertain of his position. Where Fabio was not that impressive. Due to the fact the the midfield is not working. We started doing our classical boring and useless long balls. Zlatan tried. But he is not well in form PLUS he is not fully fit. As the minuites went by trezeguet faded away inside the Bremen deffense due to lack of support. Zambrotta was trying so hard but the players also did not help. He was running up and down the left flank like crazy.
Then from their first attack on our target. Vieira fails to return back to deffense. Zebina is lost and Thuram is not concetrated a 1 on 1 with buffon --> goal.
You think, ok we will show them now. You are wrong. We did not. We continued playing our pethetic long balls till the ref called half. 45 min of useless crap.
You'd expect that in HT Capello will take out Vieira and rbing in any other player to fill in the gap he is doing. Again you're wrong again. Same 11 continue to play. We start again with long balls which are useless. Then we shift slowly to more proper passing.
After 15 min of 2nd half. Capello thinks its time to do something. Now I have to give it him. He could've entered player, instead he replaced two players. Del Piero and Mutu are on the line waiting to come in. You come to think, Capello will replace Vieira and one of the strikers. Nooooo. He takes out Camoranesi and the clearly unfit for the match, yet had tried alot (we thank him for his hardwork), Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The team starts to play better. On the ground passes. Better creativity and chances. We waisted alot of chances. Trezeguet got 3 easy headers which he wasted. Emerson wasted an easy shot so did nedved.
We score a goal after a nice play. A ball comes to Alex and single touch to Trezeguet, a single touch to Nedved who is 1 on 1 with the keeper --> leaves it to David to shoot and score.
Capello decides to go for his third sub. Takes out Zambrotta and brings in Balzaretti. Immediatel Balzaretti showed his worth. He showed that he is a great player.
We continue on wasting chances till 2 min from the end when mutu crosses the ball the keeper fails to catch it properly and Emerson kicks it in to the goal.
End score.. 2-1.
Ratings
Buffon: Not tested very much except for one which needed a buffon to knock it out. Thank you. Thuram screwed up infront of the goal and buffon saved our asses. He takes no blame on the goal. For that I give him 7.
Zebina: Started off terribly. Then improved a bit in the last 30 min of the match. 5.5
Thuram: Lost. 5.0
Cannavaro: Partially lost 5.5
Zambrotta: MOM in the first half 7
Camoranesi: Tried, but midfield, especially Vieira was out of the question. With Also Zebina on his side you can't really blame him alot. 6
Vieira: Trashy performance 1 (1 because we won, otherwise it wouldve been 0)
Emerson: Started off sloppy, gained his performance as game went through. Wasted a stupid chance. Scored a very important lucky ball. 7
Nedved: Ran alot, an ok performance. Wasted some easy chances. 6.5
Zlatan: Tried also, but clearly unfit for the match 6
Trezeguet: Wasted alot of headers. Did not participate in the play during the fist hour. Played a good end 30 min when Del Piero and Mutu came in. You come to think that the problem was midfield supply. Scored an important goal. 6.5
Del Piero: Not a very brilliance performance from Alex. Did not have alot of time. The midfield was terrible. Managed to make the team player proper passes. Caused trouble to Bremen deffense. Trezeguet came alive, 6.5
Mutu: Ok performance.. 6.5
balzaretti: Although played around 15 min. But played them from his heart. Not a single mistake and pushed forward. Great man. 6.5
Capello: We won. But he will have to go thank Bremen's keeper. Bad starting line up. Not bad changes. 5.5
In summary: Rremen is a terrible team. They are not brilliant at all. Their deffense is weak and their goalkeeper is just luck that we are shooting in his face. We could've ended the away match with atleast 5 goals in our favour but we didn't. We could've ruled this match if fielded proper formation but we didn't. If we continue like this we will not win the CL. Fielding unfit players while infrom healthy players are on the bench. To tell you the trith, I respect you Capello but this is not looking good.
One more thing, Vieira is a flop.
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( capello and his tactics:faq2: ) We have to change the way we go into Champions League matches, as in this competition you are punished at the first error. Nonetheless, we created a dozen chances and the goalkeeper performed miracles, so it’s not as if this win was undeserved.”
