That Matri goal. So amusing watching the inter players just stand there, the replay clearly shows that the ball didn't go out.
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[Serie A] Calciopoli Directors 1-2 JUVENTUS (March 30, 2013) (60 Viewers)
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Pretty decent performance there, particularly considering Juve were without a couple of key players.
Juve's movement of the ball was good in the first half, but they really missed the penetration that Lichtsteiner offers to take advantage of the good positions they got into. Without Lichtsteiner bursting beyond the defence, most of Juve's play was in pretty safe areas in front of Inter. Inter's left flank really was asking to be opened up as well, because Kovacic wasn't going out there, so Pereira was almost trying to play both Vidal and Padoin.
Guarin coming on changed the game. In the first half Inter couldn't get near to Juve in midfield because Alvarez just wasn't doing enough to help the two deeper players. Guarin coming on gave Inter more presence in there and allowed them to put much more pressure on the ball and it was putting pressure on Pirlo that led to them winning the ball just before the equaliser.
Juve managed to do two things that I hate to see from a team playing three CBs for the equaliser: first, they had CBs just standing deep and holding postion, marking no-one, instead of being more active in going out to mark or confront a forward; and second, Barzagli and Bonucci got themselves caught square so that Palacio was able to beat both of them with a single touch, which just shouldn't happen. Barzagli, even if he wasn't going follow Palacio all the way when he dropped deep, should have been at least five yards or so higher up the pitch so that he would be in a position where a touch taken by Palacio to beat him would be easy for Bonucci to deal with sweeping up behind. As it was, Barzagli was ball-watching and only realised Palacio was moving forward at pace once it was too late to do anything much about it.
Still, Juve then reacted well to get the goal and were able to see the game out without Inter getting into too many overly dangerous situations.
Big win, as it would have been very easy for Juve to take their eye off this one with the Bayern game coming up.
Juve's movement of the ball was good in the first half, but they really missed the penetration that Lichtsteiner offers to take advantage of the good positions they got into. Without Lichtsteiner bursting beyond the defence, most of Juve's play was in pretty safe areas in front of Inter. Inter's left flank really was asking to be opened up as well, because Kovacic wasn't going out there, so Pereira was almost trying to play both Vidal and Padoin.
Guarin coming on changed the game. In the first half Inter couldn't get near to Juve in midfield because Alvarez just wasn't doing enough to help the two deeper players. Guarin coming on gave Inter more presence in there and allowed them to put much more pressure on the ball and it was putting pressure on Pirlo that led to them winning the ball just before the equaliser.
Juve managed to do two things that I hate to see from a team playing three CBs for the equaliser: first, they had CBs just standing deep and holding postion, marking no-one, instead of being more active in going out to mark or confront a forward; and second, Barzagli and Bonucci got themselves caught square so that Palacio was able to beat both of them with a single touch, which just shouldn't happen. Barzagli, even if he wasn't going follow Palacio all the way when he dropped deep, should have been at least five yards or so higher up the pitch so that he would be in a position where a touch taken by Palacio to beat him would be easy for Bonucci to deal with sweeping up behind. As it was, Barzagli was ball-watching and only realised Palacio was moving forward at pace once it was too late to do anything much about it.
Still, Juve then reacted well to get the goal and were able to see the game out without Inter getting into too many overly dangerous situations.
Big win, as it would have been very easy for Juve to take their eye off this one with the Bayern game coming up.
