[Europa League] JUVENTUS 0-0 Benfica (May 1st 2014) (19 Viewers)

[Pirlo's Beard]

Licht is just fine at what he's all about, and that's being a RB

We're asking him to do a similar job in attack that World Class wingers do, AND to top it all off he has no full-back helping him

So our go-to guy in the final 3rd is a 30 year old right back with average technique and below average crossing skills.

Now THAT should not have been ignored for over 2 years. That is quite retarded.

 

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[alexjuventino]

Benfica's backline deserve alot more credit then we are giving them. They were great and the one game in which you really need Tevez and Llorente to show up, they don't

 

[Scuba51]

Will probably receive a lot of hate from this but I feel that Lichtsteiner is severely overrated.

He's a very good fullback, but he doesn't have the technical ability to play as a wingback or winger.

 

[am0110]

Who else could've come on?

No one.

 

[sgjuveboy]

Sell amauri

 

[Gep]

Just shut the F up you lot. All bitch and argue with who said what lardy-dah! with one another. We simply wasn't good enough. End of. The End.

 

[JuvePerSempre10]

Will probably receive a lot of hate from this but I feel that Lichtsteiner is severely overrated.

Well, he is an excellent RB. As a wide midfielder (attacking wise) he lacks skills to beat a man and a good cross. Basically everything a RM needs. Not his fault that he is forced to play out of position though...

 

[Lorenzo Juve]

Will probably receive a lot of hate from this but I feel that Lichtsteiner is severely overrated.

I agree. He is an old-fashioned rb who can defend but can't attack for shit. His crosses are nothing close to winger quality.

 

[Mike-e-y]

This game was lost in the first leg. 2 moments of complete stupidity put this tie in benfica a hands.

It worries me how we're not good enough to break down opponents with a rigid and organised defence. Bar pirlo we have no creativity. I really don't know what this team needs to compete in Europe but it sure as shit isn't just a minor change

 

[Alen]

Your post has contradicted the point you're trying to make.

The reason were not ready for Europe is because we make too many individual errors. You can't do that in Europe. We can get by in serie a because we're head and shoulders above our opponents and they feel inferior to us. Europe shows us no respect

Those individual mistakes are a result of the lack of talent.
Chiellini, for example, is considered the best Italian CB, but that's mostly because of his heart and physicality, not his talent. Vidal's story is similar. It's great to have players like them in your team, but it becomes a problem when as many as 9 of your 10 field starters are less talented than they are physically prepared to play football.

It takes brains to win in Europe. The lungs and the heart aren't enough without brains. Instead, we have dumb and dumber in our defense. Chiellini and Caceres are talentless and dumb, while Bonucci is just dumb.

 

[Citizen Unknown]

Side Note : That guy Nicolás Gaitán would fit perfectly in Juventus

 

[Dostoevsky]

Poll is up.

Totally forgot about it.

 

[Hydde]

Licht is just fine at what he's all about, and that's being a RB

We're asking him to do a similar job in attack that World Class wingers do, AND to top it all off he has no full-back helping him

So our go-to guy in the final 3rd is a 30 year old right back with average technique and below average crossing skills.

Now THAT should not have been ignored for over 2 years. That is quite retarded.

This is what is aid. We are abusing licht likie if he was the age of pogba.

30 years for a dude that is not a natural winger is a massacre. I fault Conte and Marotta for that for buying a variation likie Isla.

 

[redrum]

as I said before, Luisao is a monster.

 

[am0110]

I think Bonuccis brainfart decided the encounter, that fuck up made huge difference and made it much much harder.

 

[Fint]

as I said before, Luisao is a monster.

MoTM

 

[alexjuventino]

Pogba MOM

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I think Bonuccis brainfart decided the encounter, that $#@! up made huge difference and made it much much harder.

Not only his brainfart but the marking on the Rodrigos goal

 

[baggio]

I think Benfica may have done us a huge favor tonight. If we consider the run up to the next mercato and the assurances Conte will perhaps seek.

 

[Pirlo's Beard]

Bonucci was at fault, but once again our systems toothless attack was a major flaw

Before even the first leg, if you can't score at home in the Semi final then chances are you're going out.

 

[Alen]

I think Bonuccis brainfart decided the encounter, that fuck up made huge difference and made it much much harder.

It turns out like that, but I seriously doubt that we'd have kept the clean sheet if Benfica needed a goal. They looked much better with the ball in their feet. If they pushed us, they were going to score and we (of course) weren't gonna use the space they'd leave when they attack.