[Serie A] Chievo 0-0 JUVENTUS (16th October, 2011) (15 Viewers)

[Golazo]

It's almost as if we were playing for the draw for the majority of that match.

- Lone striker for 70mins
- Our build-up play in attack is way too slow - Chievo never looked like they were under any pressure until there were only minutes to go
- We choose not to counter-attack half the time, even when the opportunity is there
- We don't want to go into and win 50/50 challenges. So many times we tend to hang back and hope they make a first-touch mistake
- Too many wasteful long balls in the first half. Pump the ball up to a lone striker - yeah, that works
- No threat to the defence. We aren't pressuring them to make any decisions. No overlaps, cutting runs etc. We get the ball and pass - easy to read, and fairly ineffective at trying to break a defence down

Most of those points have shone through in all our draws so far. Have to be addressed. They're my main concerns.

 

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[Nenz]

Conte needs to learn the difference between tactical inadequacies and poor mentality. A half time speech was probably never going to turn this team around. He needed to make his changes much sooner. At least our defense held up today but now hopefully he learns that Vucinic is no lone striker. Not even in the Milan game did he get many chances. Lets get some goal scorers on the pitch. Matri for lone striker when we play 4-1-4-1 and Matri - DP/Vucinic in the 4-2-4 system. Vidal looked much better in the 4-2-4 system by the way.

 

[Nicholas]

That wasn't an easy chance to score. He wasn't well positioned.

Perhaps I expect too much of him but I know Delpie can finish those.

 

[Linebreak]

Yeah, I'm not too stressed out. We clearly lack the world class quality to break down teams like these on a regular basis. But we're still unbeaten, and we've gained when it comes to our rivals for the third spot, Napoli and Inter. Milan will win this championship, there never was any question about that.

But still, very frustrating to watch. God I hate these minnows, defending with 8 men ALL the time. Pathetic.

Can't blame them for our lack of ability

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

I am disgusted - we don't have a strong enough team to beat the small defensive teams to death - no x-factor type player

We play 4-4-2 from the start and we get at least a goal from this game.

Disappointing that we drop points against these teams. I am also really really sick of us NEVER taking advantage of our rivals slipping up.

Conte has to take the blame for his tactics and the formation that started this game. 4-5-1 against these rubbish mid table teams in beyond disgraceful.

 

[tpain]

im pretty sure krasic needs to be sold. he offers nothing other than speed and running. walcott, swp, baky kone are similar to him. what we need is a player that can make good movements and passes. Krasic made a really bad pass during a counter attack.

 

[JCK]

The choke curse continues. We won't win the league dropping 6 points already to 3 piss poor teams.

That's the jinx curse you bring with you.

What a horrible match, I hate it that after waiting so much to watch them play and they do what they did today. Really disappointing.

We should have played with two forwards from the very beginning and the forced subs won't get us anywhere. That's two mistakes from Conte today and they cost us two precious points.

Buffon 6

Lichtsteiner 6
Barzagli 7
Bonucci 6.5
Chiellini 6.5

Pirlo 6
Marchisio 6.5
Vidal 5.5
Krasic 4
Pepe 5.5

Vucinic 6

Giaccherrini 6.5
Del Piero 6.5
Esrigarribia N.R

 

[blondu]

That wasn't an easy chance to score. He wasn't well positioned.

look again, he was all alone there, the ball was a bit to high for him, and it was hard to position the ball

 

[Alen]

Still he saved a goal.

Bah, I am well prepared for a season like this one. Good matches followed by bad ones. Never expected more.

 

[Hust]

FT Cesena 0 - 0 Fiorentina

FT Atalanta 0 - 0 Udinese

FT Cagliari 0 - 0 Siena

FT Chievo 0 - 0 Juventus

FT Genoa 0 - 0 Lecce

FT Novara 0 - 2 Bologna

 

[GarfielD]

Snoozefest.

 

[Del Piero Style]

That wasn't an easy chance to score. He wasn't well positioned.

Let him play more than 20 mintues every time and he'll score much harder goals. That's the first mintues he played in like...3 weeks?

 

[Azzurri7]

Al-Jazeera commentator: Conte fears Chievo and playing with 1striker proves that.

He has a point.

 

[Brujitas]

Pathetic performance to be honest.

 

[Boksic]

Nobody giving credit to Chievo?

They have only lost 1 game this season, which was in the last minute away from home and have already beaten Napoli. They are a difficult team to breakdown and when we did we didn't take advantage.

 

[Nicholas]

Our next three games Genoa, Fiorentina and Palermo if we get 9 points then this result is not too bad.

 

[Nicholas]

I have to say Bonucci has been very solid these past two games.

 

[Dostoevsky]

I personally think it's wrong to say it's Conte's fault cause he played with one striker. It has nothing to do with the opponent, we're a bigger club and THEY should be the ones changing their formation to matches ours, and not us. We should be well capable of beating any team with this formation, let alone one very weak Chievo. This doesn't mean less offensive formation at all.

 

[tpain]

i dont understand why conte subbed out marchisio. perhaps he though that vidal was better defensively?

 

[IliveForJuve]

I hope Conte starts Matri and Quags next game.