juve's group in UCL 12/13? (24 Viewers)

[Tommy]

 

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[Linebreak]

Let's hope Chelsea shows the same form in three weeks time as they did yesterday, absolutely abysmal.

 

[Inglip]

The squad for CL, can Conte be on the bench in those matches?

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2013/clubs/club=50139/index.html

 

[Hydde]

It's a balanced group. We're probably going to lose the first game against Chelsea, or possibly get a draw if we are extremely lucky. They are a superior team to us, and anyone who refuses or can't see that are either delusional or terribly biased.

Fuk that, sincerely. We are proud champions and we have a midfield that causes envy around Europe. We are eager to perform and we have nothing to lose and a lot to win.

As strong as they may be, i feel that we shouldnt feel inferior to them in any sense, even when they are the actual champs.
We definitely can give them a scare at the very least in their stadium.

Key performers in this game will be our forwards and Bonucci IMO. If Bon can dominate his nerves and dont fuck up, we have a chance.

 

[Amer]

Our defence and midfield are rock solid. We will concede one or two goals in these 6 matches.

 

[Lorenzo Juve]

I really don't understand why so many think we'll lose to Chelsea. i understand they'll be tough but we can easily control the game in midfield. It's just a matter of shutting down their attackers and making good use of our chances. I know we can do one of those things, the other is up to how gio and vucinic feels.

 

[Salvatore]

I've seen quite a bit of Chelsea so far (thanks to them being involved in a couple of Super Cup games), and they do look vulnerable. Struggled against Reading, Falcao tore them up, City scored three against them. Their Champions League victory wasn't exactly through great performance either, there was a lot of good fortune on the way. Di Matteo obviously picked up the pieces to make a very experienced team (the reason why they should be favourites for the group) perform better, but I'm really not sure on his ability either.

Reassuring to see the back of Drogba as well.

 

[Trequartista]

Their success last year was based on parking the bus but it seems that Abramovich wants attacking football and will no tolerate that tactic anymore, which will be to our advantage since they don't have the midfield (Lampard-Mikel ) to play that kind of game.

 

[MikeM]

I will be interested to see our style in the CL. Last year when we had that string of tough away matches it seemed Conte was content to match our opponent's play style and force a draw. Then win at home later in the year. Everyone was complaining about all our draws but we were a somewhat new invention and it seemed Conte elected to play it safe when facing tough matches for the first time.

The CL presents more of the same and I'm wondering if we'll be content to match Chelsea and look for a draw away. Or if we'll stick to 3-5-2 and try to possess the ball over 60%.

 

[Nzoric]

We should be satisfied with a draw against Chelsea in London, they won the title last season and are a team to be reckoned with, especially given our lack of experience.

 

[ALC]

I don't want to speak too early when it comes to Chelsea. I was 100% sure Napoli was gonna beat them, not to mention Barca and Bayern. Yeah, they don't have Drogba anymore but Torres is capable of scoring anytime.

 

[Nzoric]

I don't want to speak too early when it comes to Chelsea. I was 100% sure Napoli was gonna beat them, not to mention Barca and Bayern. Yeah, they don't have Drogba anymore but Torres is capable of scoring anytime.

Precisely.

When it comes to gut feeling though, I'm much more concerned at the mention of Shakhtar than Chelsea, I have a terribad feeling.

 

[ALC]

Meh. We're gonna own Shakhtar.

 

[Nzoric]

Meh. We're gonna own Shakhtar.

I have my doubts, especially in the away match. Icecold Ukraine in the winter and technical Brazilians prancing around Bonucci

 

[Salvatore]

I don't want to speak too early when it comes to Chelsea. I was 100% sure Napoli was gonna beat them, not to mention Barca and Bayern. Yeah, they don't have Drogba anymore but Torres is capable of scoring anytime.

Drogba was the ultimate clutch player for them, huge contrast to what Torres has done at Chelsea. He's still to be feared but I don't think he'll be pulling them through games like Didier did.

Juventus definitely aren't favourites ahead of them though.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

I have my doubts, especially in the away match. Icecold Ukraine in the winter and technical Brazilians prancing around Bonucci

We'll have the group wrapped up by then.

 

[ALC]

I have my doubts, especially in the away match. Icecold Ukraine in the winter and technical Brazilians prancing around Bonucci

One word: grinta. This is the old Juve. They love the snow. Blood is much easier to distinguish on the pure canvas of snow.

Drogba was the ultimate clutch player for them, huge contrast to what Torres has done at Chelsea. He's still to be feared but I don't think he'll be pulling them through games like Didier did.

Juventus definitely aren't favourites ahead of them though.

Yeah, we're definitely second favorites here.

 

[Linebreak]

I don't want to speak too early when it comes to Chelsea. I was 100% sure Napoli was gonna beat them, not to mention Barca and Bayern. Yeah, they don't have Drogba anymore but Torres is capable of scoring anytime.

If that retard Maggio had scored from 6 yards out in the first leg they would have beaten them.

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I have my doubts, especially in the away match. Icecold Ukraine in the winter and technical Brazilians prancing around Bonucci

- the amount of BonBon Rabonas we'll see!!

 

[LowLife]

We have better midfield and defense! They have better strikers on paper. I am really looking forward to Gio or Vucinic owning Ivanovic's big ass. With our attacking duo Vucinic-Gio (let's hope they'll be fit) I expect lots of freekicks and we should take advantage from them, Pirlo and Gio are really good at that.

I see us being slightly favorite.

 

[Lorenzo Juve]

I agree we're slight favorite, but knowing the media's bias to English teams and bias against Italian teams, they're going to make it sound like Chelsea are favorites by miles.