Serie A: Catania vs Juventus [Jan 13 2008] (4 Viewers)

[Azzurri7]

What is soo drama about this? seriously? facts are

-Ranieri can/should be criticized when he make mistakes...thats part of football. Tactics/formation/subs are part of coach responsibilty.

-Players should also be criticized when they don't performe.

-Molinaro should be out of this squad

and etc

I don't see whats the big deal here.

 

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[Bjerknes]

BULLSHIT !!

More performances like tonight, and we can kiss 3rd place goodbye, and say hello to 5th

Nice to know that no one can criticise the team, we just have to accept things the way they are, otherwise you arent a true fan

I know myself and posters like Cronios and Andy havent been satisfied with our play, even when we've won

I am frustrated watching us struggle so much....

You know how it is around here, brother. We aren't "real" fans because we put the side's performances in their place.

 

[Alfio_87]

But that doesn't matter when we're looking at style, tactics, etc. Our style of play is God awful, just as it was under Capello, except worse. You know, a lot of people don't want to go down that road again, but here we are. More shitty football.

One of the reasons why I liked Ranieri at first is because he was good with new players and used different tactics, generally playing good football at Chelsea and Valencia. But he hasn't lived up to the past in that respect here at Juventus.

We're losing points fucking around with the same old shit.

I understand the point of you and many others who pour everything out on here. Thing is you trying to convince a bunch of ppl who some dont even watch the football or care about your opinion wont make you feel any better.
Of course our football is tasteless and ugly and players wearing the shirt even make you wonder how did they get to this point.
Sure i like Ranieri cause his one of the good guys sure i dis like him cause he lacks the ability to read opposing teams or have more plans than one.
This is football end of the day and these are little things we are picking on that may not even work.
Answer is we havent got the sqaud, just yet.

 

[Bjerknes]

I understand the point of you and many others who pour everything out on here. Thing is you trying to convince a bunch of ppl who some dont even watch the football or care about your opinion wont make you feel any better.
Of course our football is tasteless and ugly and players wearing the shirt even make you wonder how did they get to this point.
Sure i like Ranieri cause his one of the good guys sure i dis like him cause he lacks the ability to read opposing teams or have more plans than one.
This is football end of the day and these are little things we are picking on that may not even work.
Answer is we havent got the sqaud, just yet.

But our sqaud isn't that terrible. Surely it's not so terrible we have to play lethargic, ugly, useless football in many matches. If Ranieri is trying to win like Capello it won't work because he's no Capello.

Damnit, that's one of the reasons why I liked Ranieri, because he never was a Capello. He isn't a winner either.

 

[Alfio_87]

But our sqaud isn't that terrible. Surely it's not so terrible we have to play lethargic, ugly, useless football in many matches. If Ranieri is trying to win like Capello it won't work because he's no Capello.

Damnit, that's one of the reasons why I liked Ranieri, because he never was a Capello. He isn't a winner either.

i didnt say the squad is terrible either.
It just lacks certain areas, but we play the style we do cause it cuts risk. Key thing about these big teams is they expect teams to sit back anyway. So even if they counter with the 4-4-2 we have enough cover to block most of there attempts.
Capello did it now Ranieri is with the formation yes it dosent seem to be working as well , buts its not that bad either. Capello had 11 guns Ranieri has 2 very old guns and 3 guns in there prime. Capello's Juve where more organised and disaplined. But Ranieri installs more heart. But yes Capello is more desperate for wins than Ranieri it seems.

 

[Bjerknes]

i didnt say the squad is terrible either.
It just lacks certain areas, but we play the style we do cause it cuts risk. Key thing about these big teams is they expect teams to sit back anyway. So even if they counter with the 4-4-2 we have enough cover to block most of there attempts.
Capello did it now Ranieri is with the formation yes it dosent seem to be working as well , buts its not that bad either. Capello had 11 guns Ranieri has 2 very old guns and 3 guns in there prime. Capello's Juve where more organised and disaplined. But Ranieri installs more heart. But yes Capello is more desperate for wins than Ranieri it seems.

The straight 4-4-2 doesn't provide more cover than the 4-3-3 or the 4-1-2-1-2. What you gain on the wings you lose in the center of the pitch. If it was me, I'd rather clog up the center of the pitch against Italian sides and have the more diverse attack. If we want to use the straight 4-4-2, we need to have the players to do so, which we don't, especially when we lack our only top real winger, Camoranesi. Nedved isn't a real winger and Marchionni just isn't good enough.

So why are we playing the straight 4-4-2? Are we really that inept of a side we have to resort to the most basic and repetitive formation all season long? We will never win anything if we use the straight 4-4-2 with Zanetti and Nocerino, or Nocerino and Sissoko, or any combination you want. If you use the straight 4-4-2, you need to either have players who can not only defend but also attack, or have one of the either specialize. Zanetti and Nocerino are both defensive-minded players. Vieira and Emerson are the example; great defensive players and great offensive players.

But this is something I've said countless times, yet people don't want to listen to me. We won't win anything playing like we have for most of this season. It's a fact.

 

[Morra10]

why aren't we linked to vargas? He's been great this season.....

 

[Maher]

it seems the players were rusty from the long holiday , it was a bad performance but we were lucky to get the draw in the final moments.

 

[da_ledgeaun]

i really thought we played with the wrong formation from the beginning,Iaquinta should have played from the start...and Nocerino should have been dropped playing with 4-3-3 against a team like Catania would have been the way to go..

 

[Salvo]

so we played shit. i didnt see the game. thank the lord for adp. who played? and im guessing 4-4-2? i was so angry when i heard we drew. its not good to drop points. who are inter and roma playing?

 

[ZhiXin]

Honestly, a bunch of members here don´t deserve to be fans of this great team. What do you call this behaviour of tonight, insulting everything you can remember? Shame on you. Go support other teams which are winning easily at the moment if you can´t take this kind of performances from Juve. This season will be hard and frustrating, but we all firmly in the 3rd place, above all odds. Bunch of crybabeis and gloryhunters, we want Van der Vaart, Ronaldinho, Diego, nothing less. Boo-hoo. Get a grip. Show some support to your team. We didn´t play well but at least we are fighting and if we manage to fight out throughout this season and manage to get a CL spot, things cannot get but better.

Thank God there are some class posters here like Dominic, Lampard, Shyne, just to name a few. The others are not even worth to talk to.

hm, just saying a word of hello to you.

I came I saw and I left. No point for me to post in here. Cheers to everybody.

I will refrain from posting. Hope that Juventus can perform better. And I will return from hiatus seeing a circus in here

 

[Bjerknes]

so we played shit. i didnt see the game. thank the lord for adp. who played? and im guessing 4-4-2? i was so angry when i heard we drew. its not good to drop points. who are inter and roma playing?

Watch the match before anything else. I think we have a problem around here where people don't watch the matches but still comment. It's not good and doesn't look good when talking about supposed fans.

 

[Salvo]

Watch the match before anything else. I think we have a problem around here where people don't watch the matches but still comment. It's not good and doesn't look good when talking about supposed fans.

thats y i asked. and from the comments im guessing we played shit.

 

[Dominic]

But i still cant understand Dominic's blind faith on our material and that uber optimism, or he is just being sarcastic??

I've not even posted my thoughts on this game. That the team's performance was below par, is obvious. Molinaro, Nocerino, Tiago were very poor, but the rest of the players didn't do much better(DP and Legrottaglie are the exceptions). Ranieri made a lot of incorrect decisions today and the match preperation was lacking.

But when I see these pages filled with "Molinaro FUCK OFF FUCK OFF" etcetera, it gets on my nerves. This is a forum to discuss certain viewpoints, but that's just fruitless banter. Useless.

Wrong. You were one of those fools to say give Molinaro time and tried to excuse poor performances by saying that he gives a lot of effort. Like I said before, give me a shirt, I'll fucking try hard. Fact is, you were wrong.

And fact is, you're one of those fantasy land members who maybe has foresight, but doesn't ever show it. You're just a sugar-coater, Juventus apologist with no insight either, so why don't you grow a pair.

Again, I did not say that. Don't state facts, when they are not. It may look like i'm playing the devil's advocate, but there's hardly a choise. It'll looke like sugar-coating very fast if the opposite is mindless bashing and insulting. Let me say again though, I hadn't even said anything about the game, so you're sugar coating arguement doesn't even stand.

You pretend to have foresight, but do you actually think firing Ranieri now is going to help at all?

At the same time you put the focus of our lacklustre display on Tiago's substitution and Molinaro's poor form. Which is really shifting the focus. Tiago was rightfully subbed(though Ranieri put in the wrong subsitute) and Molinaro is just one part of 11 players. The oh-so untouchable Chiellini for example, has been getting worse every match since the Lazio game as well.

Anyway, you need to grow up. When you get of out of your shallow world and over-emotional state, you are actually decent to discuss with.

 

[Snoop]

How is blaming Ranieri idiotic???

So you're actually saying to me that putting on Marchionni at half-time and waiting so long to put on Iaquinta while being down was a good idea? Are you saying that our side actually is playing good football right now, not resorting to hopeless long balls and having to rely on some refereeing error to tie a match against Catania? Are you saying that Ranieri isn't partly to blame for how poor HIS substitutions were?

I mean, come on. Players shoulder the blame from me and so does the manager. Afterall, he's the one who chooses the team, the tactics, etc, yet our tactics are pure shit and that is why we almost lost today. And our tactics have been the same all season long, consisting of straight 4-4-2's and long balls.

What do you have to say about the fact that Ranieri made our side more defensive at halftime, snoop? Does that make any sense whatsoever? Don't even try to justify that fact.

You just read my first sentence Andy

Ofcourse Ranieri is responsible with the rest for this display, but my point is, he is not the only one to be blamed. If Molinaro is playing like a fucktard, that's because our board brought him to replace a warrior like Balzaretti, to win a couple of Millions?? That's was a retard move.. Andy, every coach can have bad performance by their teams from time to time. The Minor things you are saying might be true or not, that's arguable. But the fact you are denying is our team exceeded it's expectations, and we are in a very good position. You have to give Ranieri the credit. His tactics against Inter Roma and Fiorentina and others can't be forgotten this fast. YES! He got owned by Catania last night, and Catania deserve the full 3 points. I am criticizing Ranieri for not signing VDV or alikes, I won't criticize him for not winning Scudetto, me and you know that he wasn't brought here for that, and that's not his job.

 

[Cronios]

No need to argue about the mistakes of our managers no more,
i was referred to them, because the transfer window is still open and (on theory) they can still fix some of our problems today by making just one or two acquisitions,
such opportunities havent arisen every day and no other game up until now offered us, such privileges. We can fix our problems, before it will be too late!
When Andrade + Boum boum got injured and Criscito was out-muscled by Totti,
we have decided, we have no other option than to taste Chie as a CB and a make starter out of Molinaro, but right now we have no excuses, Molinaro is our only option as an LB, if he gets injured/suspended/or score 3 own goals there is no other man to replace him and will play no matter what!
When are we going to fix that?? Next season?? Why?????????????
We can find hundreds of players like Mellberg, available just for a 2-5mil,
get one and move Chie to the left, half of our defensive problems would be fixed that way, as simple as that, but we are bound to repeat the same mistakes and keep on like that...
Our managers, from now on have absolutely no excuses for any grave mistake that our silly defense, will commit in the future. Goal.com said we have 20 mil available to spend in the winter transfer and we only need 5, FFs, we are Juventus. Our problem is painfully obvious week in, week out, we need a new defender, signing Sissoko or any other Nocerino+Tiago+Almiron replacer should be our secondary objective for this transfer window. And yet...
Im tired of pointing this out, i ve been doing this from the beginning of the season,
some ppl will never learn...

For the ones who dont know all the football rules, i have to point out one thing!
when the defender touches the ball first and then the player, it is considered a valid taclin and it is not a foul (penalty in the box)
That was the case yesterday when DP earned that penalty, he shouldnt...

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Where is that Lampard chink Andy owned earlier....I want to give him a piece of my dick into his mouth.

 

[Salvo]

When are we going to fix that?? Next season?? Why?????????????

they way were going were gonna buy another 5 cdm before we buy another defender

 

[cherryman]

First half the catania players really played like shit, all kind of little faults to break down the attack. Nocerino on right wing is not an option, he is not creative enough, Tiago did disappoint, but to put all fault with him I think is not the right way! Catania was playing catenaccio the whole match and we haven't got the creativity to do something against it...

The second half, Marchionni was giving more pressure on the right wing and also Brazzo did come more often. Indeed like I read above, Molinaro was playing like shit, none of his passes came by the first defender... And we really haven't got a backup for him, we shouldn't have left Criscito on loan with Genoa!

The people who blame Ranieri aren't true fans I think, the coach always get the first blame for it when it goes bad, but when it goes good, its all due to the players?? Ranieri opted for another elaboration, but it didn't work today, on defensive duty's Molinaro was not so bad, Nocerino on the other side was like an open door... All the pressure of the Catania attack came on his right side!

I'm not happy with this result (and play), but some of the fans must realize that we come from far far dawn ! We can't become the Juvé of 3-4 years ago within just a half year. Just be a little more realistic ! We haven't got the team non players to win the scudetto I think. There is a huge gap between the base team and the bench on some positions ! We must be happy for the 3th place and hope to be second in the end of the season, but for the title we are much to green...

 

[Brixity]

Man!! That was 1 shitty game by us. U know, Ive tried to defend Molinaro so much this season but the dude seriously makes it hard. The number of times he got into a good position to cross and absolutely wasted it were just too many. And it made me angry esp in the 2nd half that the team always seemed to spread the ball to the left were he was then knowing in advance that things would break down.......All in all, we need a better LB, much better

one more thing, I've never wanted Momo at Juve (I feel hes just a lanky cordless dude) and I especially dont see how making him replace Tiago would make th9ings any better granted our wack game-play.......All in all, we need Diego