[FRIENDLY] JUVENTUS vs Villarreal, August 7th 2009 (85 Viewers)

Mike-e-y

Senior Member
Jul 18, 2004
11,139
Main lesson learnt from this game today:

We have absolutely no idea how to play against a team that plays quick, counter attacking football along the floor.

Other lessons learnt:

Cannavaro looked awful, Chiellini looked like Materazzi, Caceres started so well and then made so many mistakes. DP and Trez are too slow and static to play together now. Iaquinta without confidence is a liability. Camo cant play in a 3 man midfield, Melo gives the ball away too cheaply. We try long balls and cross from deep way too often, which ALWAYS results in us surrenderring possession cheaply. Giovinco should shoot once in a while.
 

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Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,530
This game was really important for them and we are not as fit and ready as they are.

We need more work to call ourselves a TEAM!
But we have that time...

Caceres was good, it seems to be a good transfer and we are going to need him!
Wait, you agree?:shifty:

You don't think we overpaid for him?:pumpkin:
 
Nov 1, 2002
2,482
Im glad this result came now rather than in pre season, Ciro knows the backline needs sorted out, so hopefully this result, and display is a shot in the arm that he needs.
i dont think its back line problem its the midfield problem
even if you have nesta and cannavaro at their best with midfielders who cant cover

i didnt like the way our midfielders setting back instead of pressing
 

JCK

Biased
JCK
May 11, 2004
124,318
icεmαή;2097404 said:
Yesterday we were the next big thing, now lets get back to earth...
Going back to earth is really good.

As for the game, we were totally outplayed it's not even funny. The starting 11 were horrible, the defensive organization was not in any means present and there were no ideas at all.

Villarreal are a compact team that leaves little space for the opponent and they perform the total football approach like a Swiss watch and we were the perfect opponent for them. We left them a lot of space so they could roam and fill up, we lost the ball easily and were out of idea on how to pass the behind their lines.

These details on how to adapt to opponents are exactly what we need to work on. For once I saw that the 4-2-3-1 would have worked against the canaries. The two poles would have minimized the space we left and the 3 attacking players would have pushed their wingers a bit backwards and isolated them from the rest of the team.

Another thing we learned is that Molinaro will be offloaded faster than Poulsen. Maybe that's why he got an award? For the efforts he's made.

Who do we play next? And when?
 

HAZEM

L'architetto
Apr 22, 2008
8,215
This game was really important for them and we are not as fit and ready as they are.

We need more work to call ourselves a TEAM!
But we have that time...

Caceres was good, it seems to be a good transfer and we are going to need him!

IT is better to lose now, than lose where it matters. This is the time for experiments and the goals we have conceded will be a useful experience/hint...
:tup:

realy i don't think we are fit at all...
 

JuveYank

Juve Ultra :D
Jun 29, 2008
323
Main lesson learnt from this game today:

We have absolutely no idea how to play against a team that plays quick, counter attacking football along the floor.

Other lessons learnt:

Cannavaro looked awful, Chiellini looked like Materazzi, Caceres started so well and then made so many mistakes. DP and Trez are too slow and static to play together now. Iaquinta without confidence is a liability. Camo cant play in a 3 man midfield, Melo gives the ball away too cheaply. We try long balls and cross from deep way too often, which ALWAYS results in us surrenderring possession cheaply. Giovinco should shoot once in a while.
Its a fing friendly dude... Camo can play a three man midfield, we saw him do it against Real and did great... Villareal really wanted to win this game and so what they won, we will learn from mistakes and carry on... its just preseason so we will try hard and fix that bfore the first match... Lets be postive!
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,530
Well Grygera is out of the formula now, looks like Zebina might have some serious competition now, same for Canna.
 

Ali

Conditioned
Contributor
Jul 15, 2002
20,250
Well Grygera is out of the formula now, looks like Zebina might have some serious competition now, same for Canna.
Canna will never start again. This was his last chance - i just spoke to Ciro & he clarified it.
 
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Mark

The Informer
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Dec 19, 2003
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  • Thread Starter
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    Ciro: "The 2 hard training sessions made yesterday showed in today's performance."
     

    mondo1

    Senior Member
    May 14, 2006
    10,750
    still we got 3 weeks to train... wait till we got a full team and players like caceres melo and diego trained much more with the rest of the team.
    as long as players like zebina stay injuryfree we can have a good season.
     

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