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--juve played very bad as if they didnot want to playthis game or they were forced to do so.
Juve came from Italy in Thursday (6 hours flight), played on Friday in Abu-Dhabi and then had a 2 hour bus trip, triained on Saturday and then had a (1.5 hour trip), and finally had to play a full match again on Sunday, players were obviously exhausted. I just want to add something, Al-Ahli from Egypht defeating R. Madrid last season, while Zamalek, also from Egypht, defeated Lazio two days ago.
++ [ originally posted by juventusi ] ++
--dp and nedved made several rough tackles as if they wanted to hurt sombody.
That's professional football, fighting for every ball, even in a friendly !!
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--there was no exchange of shirts at the end due to the above reason
That's not true, DP laughed and exchanged shirts with Omar Ghareeb, and Nedved gave his shirt to Rami Yaslem, who said before the match that Nedved was his idol.
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--both players popularity will be affected in the region
DP had to be escorted with police after the game due to the fan invasion on him !!