[EUROPA League] JUVENTUS 0 - 0 Ajax (Feb. 25th 2010) (14 Viewers)

[Alen]

Exactly.

I won't bother either. I just hope that people won't complain when we end up in pot 3, or even pot 4, in CL, because we didn't gain enough points.

This season we were in pot 2. If we had 1 point less, we'd have been in pot 3. That's how much 1 point might mean. And I understand that the most important thing was to qualify and save energy. But we already had that in the 80th minute and it's not like we were gonna risk anything if we went for the winning goal. We were never interested in scoring that goal, though.

 

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I think he was useless in this match.

 

[Bjerknes]

Which one is better you think? To have an English side in your stadium in the first leg or in the second? I personally prefer to play them away in the first leg.

Whatever works out so that we don't have incentive to sit back in both legs, trying to get by the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool through lethargic play.

Generally I like the second leg at home though.

 

[Nicholas]

I won't bother either. I just hope that people won't complain when we end up in pot 3, or even pot 4, in CL, because we didn't gain enough points.

This season we were in pot 2. If we had 1 point less, we'd have been in pot 3. That's how much 1 point might mean. And I understand that the most important thing was to qualify and save energy. But we already had that in the 80th minute and it's not like we were gonna risk anything if we went for the winning goal. We were never interested in scoring that goal, though.

A pot 3 team won our group. If your good enough you should go through. Regardless of your pot seedings.

 

[Red]

Which one is better you think? To have an English side in your stadium in the first leg or in the second? I personally prefer to play them away in the first leg.

Fulham can't be considered a normal English side.

They have a rubbish support and Hodgson has them playing in a rather un-English fashion.

However, I always think it is better to play away first.

I, for one, would really like to win this competition. Not sure why some folks wouldn't.

Me too.

Some folk were very dismissive of it, though, as if Juve are too important to bother with such a competition.

 

[Wings]

He was aggressive, running aimlessly with mistimed tackles. It just made it look like he was everywhere but doing nothing.

 

[Bjerknes]

I won't bother either. I just hope that people won't complain when we end up in pot 3, or even pot 4, in CL, because we didn't gain enough points.

This season we were in pot 2. If we had 1 point less, we'd have been in pot 3. That's how much 1 point might mean. And I understand that the most important thing was to qualify and save energy. But we already had that in the 80th minute and it's not like we were gonna risk anything if we went for the winning goal. We were never interested in scoring that goal, though.

This could certainly be a problem.

IMO, this whole "do the least for maximum results" thesis is a plague and has hurt us for a long time, especially in Europe.

 

[Salvatore]

Initially I shunned the Europa League because I was so pissed at us losing the CL place, but it's grown on me quite a lot. Really healthy competition and doesn't feature the same teams every single year in the quarter finals. Prize money/uefa ranking obviously are important as well.

 

[Alen]

A pot 3 team won our group. If your good enough you should go through. Regardless of your pot seedings.

If you are a good team, you will. But we're not a good team and I doubt we'll improve so much to comfortably make it through a CL group with 2 quality teams from pot 1 and pot 2.
We'll need all the help we can get in the draw.

Well, that's assuming will be 4th in Italy and make through the CL qualifiers.

 

[Red]

I won't bother either. I just hope that people won't complain when we end up in pot 3, or even pot 4, in CL, because we didn't gain enough points.

This season we were in pot 2. If we had 1 point less, we'd have been in pot 3. That's how much 1 point might mean. And I understand that the most important thing was to qualify and save energy. But we already had that in the 80th minute and it's not like we were gonna risk anything if we went for the winning goal. We were never interested in scoring that goal, though.

That is certainly an issue, but just getting into the CL is the main focus at the moment and I think using the minimum amount of energy tonight was probably the best thing in the circumstances.

 

[Klin]

The positives:
- Camo looked sharp.
- Trez has exhausted his offside quota for the rest of the season.
- Melo is suspended.
- Manninger has shed the nerves.
- Sissoko played a one two.

Oh come on man...

 

[Nicholas]

Anyways to lighten up. Ranieri

 

[Azzurri7]

I, for one, would really like to win this competition. Not sure why some folks wouldn't.

Only limited people wouldn't want to win this competition. Winning this competition would be great.

 

[JBF]

Chiellini and Legrottaglie were very solid.

Has Legrottaglie done enough to keep Cannavaro out of the team?

Well he certainly is better in the air while he has some nervy moments, but yea deffinetly better than Canna so far.

Clean Sheets

Yea, we missed those

 

[Wings]

Oh come on man...

I know man, was expecting a lot from Melo. Just disappointed that he is always talking but he needs to 'walk' so to say.

 

[icemaη]

I, for one, would really like to win this competition. Not sure why some folks wouldn't.

 

[Bjerknes]

Glad to see Ranieri crash out in typical fashion.

 

[Wings]

Anyways to lighten up. Ranieri

Amen to that.

 

[SABSAB]

I, for one, would really like to win this competition. Not sure why some folks wouldn't.

I really want to win this

 

[Nicholas]

Glad to see Ranieri crash out in typical fashion.

Amen to that.