I'm happy Camo's back and I hope he stay fit for the rest of the season. I feel so much comfortable when he's playing instead of Marchionni.
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[SERIE A] Catania 1-2 JUVENTUS (02/8/09) (7 Viewers)
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I'm anything but satisfied with this win. I don't care if we were playing one man down or if we played 120min in Coppa Italia, Ranieri has done terribly today.
Ranieri looked like he was going to be satisfied with one point? Again, even if we're playing with one man down, 1 point wouldn't help at all. Either take 3 or none.
I expected at least to see one of Giovinvo or Ale in the last 20min. But nothing. I mean he had no balls to take out Grygera and play 3 men defense and put someone next to Amauri. Because we had nothing more to loose. Screw the 1point.
Seriously, I'm not satisfied at all.
Two subs should have taken place and putting Poulsen in before introducing Giovinco/Ale didn't make sense.
Ranieri looked like he was going to be satisfied with one point? Again, even if we're playing with one man down, 1 point wouldn't help at all. Either take 3 or none.
I expected at least to see one of Giovinvo or Ale in the last 20min. But nothing. I mean he had no balls to take out Grygera and play 3 men defense and put someone next to Amauri. Because we had nothing more to loose. Screw the 1point.
Seriously, I'm not satisfied at all.
Two subs should have taken place and putting Poulsen in before introducing Giovinco/Ale didn't make sense.
First off, if anyone decided to praise Ranieri for his tactical nouse or telepathic genius with the Poulsen substitution, please don't humiliate or embarass yourselves, because that would clearly show your ignorance towards anything related to football. Ranieri deserves no credit, because he is a coward, refuses to change his formation, and brought on a defensive midfielder to try and salvage a point, rather than throwing on Alex, Gio, or even Trez to try and go all out for the 3 points like any ambitious coach who harbors ambitions of winning titles would have done. No ideas, predictability, and refusal to gamble and take risks. That is all Ranieri typifies. Plain and simple, Ranieri is a douchebag who lacks guts, and has zero tactical knowledge of the game, and that is why all he can ever hope to win are some mickey mouse coppa italias, or the suck me till I am dry annual porn promo cup.
The defense, yet again, looked clueless and out of sorts. We can't keep relying on Buffon to bail us out, or on individual performances forever. Eventually, our luck will run out, and we will be found out. Make no mistake about it, we were extremely lucky today.
Our midfield seemed like a comatose patient, uninventive, lacking in creativity, and simply unable to do anything in the face of the Catania onslaught, especially @ the beginning of the 2nd half, when they were all over us.
As for the attack, or what was left of it after Iaquinta's stupidity, all that can be said is that Amauri set up the 2nd goal, providing the assist for Poulsen. Considering the mediocre level of service from our midfield, I would say that Amauri did quite well.
My ratings for the game:
Buffon: 7.5 partially responsible for the goal, as he was slightly off his line and the goal would've been avoided had he been a couple of steps back. Other than that, we would've lost this game by 2 clear goals, had it not been for him. MOM.
Grygera: 4 His only, solitary contribution was that which allowed the opposition to equalize. Enough said.
Legrottaglie: 4.5 Slow, constantly caught out of position, and outpaced on numerous occasions Lucky not to concede a penalty.
Mellberg: 4.5 Same as above, bar the threat of conceding a penalty.
Molinaro: 5 Plain average. Didn't really contribute much, but was the best performer in a very mediocre backline, which is not saying much.
Camoranesi: 6.5 lively, inspired, and provided the assist for our 1st goal. Had to come off early in the 2nd half, possibly due to fatigue.
Sissoko: 5 Risked being sent off for too many late challenges. Rash and aggressive at times.
Tiago: 5.5 Tried taking a couple of long range shots, and came more into the game late in the 2nd period. Was substituted by Ranieri, just as he was starting to become more involved.
Nedved: 5 Yet another forgettable performace, bar one or two occasions.
Iaquinta: 5 His score would have been much lower, had it not been for the goal. Put his team in a world of trouble after stupidly being sent off.
Amauri: 5 Tried to hold up the ball, and make the most of the chances he got, which were few and far betwee. Set up Poulsen for the winning goal.
Marchionni: 4.5 Crap, Crap, Crap. Lucky not to concede a penalty for attempting to play handball in our penalty area. Contributed little going forward, and could have cost us the game. Fartio Fuckionni must be benched, forever!!!
Poulsen: 6 Came on really late in the game, and scored the winning goal.
Ranieri: 4 Refuses to take risks, doesn't have the guts to alter his beloved 4-4-2 formation, and lacks the tactical knowledge and in game intelligence to ever be considered a winning coach. Very limited and lacking in flexibility.
The defense, yet again, looked clueless and out of sorts. We can't keep relying on Buffon to bail us out, or on individual performances forever. Eventually, our luck will run out, and we will be found out. Make no mistake about it, we were extremely lucky today.
Our midfield seemed like a comatose patient, uninventive, lacking in creativity, and simply unable to do anything in the face of the Catania onslaught, especially @ the beginning of the 2nd half, when they were all over us.
As for the attack, or what was left of it after Iaquinta's stupidity, all that can be said is that Amauri set up the 2nd goal, providing the assist for Poulsen. Considering the mediocre level of service from our midfield, I would say that Amauri did quite well.
My ratings for the game:
Buffon: 7.5 partially responsible for the goal, as he was slightly off his line and the goal would've been avoided had he been a couple of steps back. Other than that, we would've lost this game by 2 clear goals, had it not been for him. MOM.
Grygera: 4 His only, solitary contribution was that which allowed the opposition to equalize. Enough said.
Legrottaglie: 4.5 Slow, constantly caught out of position, and outpaced on numerous occasions Lucky not to concede a penalty.
Mellberg: 4.5 Same as above, bar the threat of conceding a penalty.
Molinaro: 5 Plain average. Didn't really contribute much, but was the best performer in a very mediocre backline, which is not saying much.
Camoranesi: 6.5 lively, inspired, and provided the assist for our 1st goal. Had to come off early in the 2nd half, possibly due to fatigue.
Sissoko: 5 Risked being sent off for too many late challenges. Rash and aggressive at times.
Tiago: 5.5 Tried taking a couple of long range shots, and came more into the game late in the 2nd period. Was substituted by Ranieri, just as he was starting to become more involved.
Nedved: 5 Yet another forgettable performace, bar one or two occasions.
Iaquinta: 5 His score would have been much lower, had it not been for the goal. Put his team in a world of trouble after stupidly being sent off.
Amauri: 5 Tried to hold up the ball, and make the most of the chances he got, which were few and far betwee. Set up Poulsen for the winning goal.
Marchionni: 4.5 Crap, Crap, Crap. Lucky not to concede a penalty for attempting to play handball in our penalty area. Contributed little going forward, and could have cost us the game. Fartio Fuckionni must be benched, forever!!!
Poulsen: 6 Came on really late in the game, and scored the winning goal.
Ranieri: 4 Refuses to take risks, doesn't have the guts to alter his beloved 4-4-2 formation, and lacks the tactical knowledge and in game intelligence to ever be considered a winning coach. Very limited and lacking in flexibility.
Easy for you to say Rab... If we had lost this game, going all out for the win (very much possible, coz our defence didn't know what they were doing today) his job would have been on the balance... Instead he went for the draw... Scudetto isn't on the list of priorities for us this season, so any point is better than none in his perspective...
we clearly have the most contradictorary management ever
Juventus squad - team of fighters, champions, winners
ranieri - just sets himself up to lose to accept anything other than 3 points
im beginning to lose patience with him again, even when we do win, its not to a satisfactory standard, he has 0 tactical awareness, hell i actually think this squad could win the league, if the balance is right and the right calls are made at the right time, but so far its really anything but..
Juventus squad - team of fighters, champions, winners
ranieri - just sets himself up to lose to accept anything other than 3 points
im beginning to lose patience with him again, even when we do win, its not to a satisfactory standard, he has 0 tactical awareness, hell i actually think this squad could win the league, if the balance is right and the right calls are made at the right time, but so far its really anything but..