What a night! The victory against Inter in San Siro will definitely bring lots of smiles to Juventus fans all around the world as we have beaten Inter again. Since we r facing a defensive crisis at the moment, I thought that it will be hard for Balzaretti/Chiellini or both to handle. since it is a big game with big players around and both r still relatively young. However both did a good performance against Inter. All the players did well to shut Inter's mouths up, and they did it in their football. Kily Gonzalez is just a stupid player out there that has a sleeve of tricks instead of playing football.
Anyway here r the ratings
Buffon - This is the type of game needed by Buffon. When Inter threatened, he was there most of the time. Could have done better in Samuel's goal, on the whole he did a great job, keeping out free-kicks and fulfilling a great goalkeeping job. 6.5
Balzaretti - Played as RB, 1st half wasn't quite what I expected, in the 2nd half, his performance improves as he makes forward, contributing to offensive play. Wasn't really bothered by the Interista. With performances like that u can well be the next Pessotto.6.5
Thuram - Brick wall. Surprising that he performed better than Cannavaro as he makes Inter mad time and time again. 7
Cannavaro - Could have done better, but he's a brick wall in general. Good job. 6.5
Chiellini - Young and inexperienced he maybe, but I think he did a good job in playing against Inter. He is more into defensive play, and his performance today showed his defensive performances. Great play by the young lad as he needs to take care of Figo. 6.5
Vieira - Average game, still lacking power 6
Emerson - Man of the match. The good old Emerso we know from last season is here again, shutting down Kily and making him @&#$@&*(!!!!! all game long. Eventually things got nasty and it gets into a fight between 2 players 7.5
Camo - Another good performance by him. Supplied a cross to Ibra. Considering how this game is played, I will give him a 6
Nedved - Runs around a lot, but was shut down by Javier Zanetti. This means that playing football is more than just running around like a headless chicken. However he is fouled a lot again, and DP scored5.5
Zlatan - Really didn't do a lot in the 1st half, but he scored a great goal using his head. A pity that he was injured by Samuel, but overall he has scored again, but it is good that he is exposed to games like this. To shut the critics up, 6.5
Trez - Nothing to contribute, this is very worrying when playing against big teams where chances r limited 5
DP - Scored a brilliant free-kick once again to allow Juve to win. Definitely should be starting 6.5
Capello - Great job in organising the team in times like this when Zambrotta, one of the most important players in the squad are injured. Offered guidance to Chiellini and Balzaretti as to how to play against a bitter rival. A great win for the whole Juventus squad. Showed us why Juventus plays as a team and Inter will always be a squad comprising of 11 individuals. 7
Now for some changes,
DP and Zlatan fans should not go against each other heads and argue time and time again, both players are important to the squad. Period
To accomodate Zlatan and DP, use the trident instead. A 4-3-3 with BOTH DP and Zlatan will definitely solve more problems offensively when playing against small teams or teams with weak defences. But for this game, I would opt for 4-4-2.
However some things will still never change,
Juventus is still a very great squad that boosts rich culture and history.
Juventus players play as a team
Capello will bring us more titles to our name
Inter is still a team of 11 individuals
Figo will still have a bad history against Juventus
Paparesta is still an inept referee, really strange that some people prefer Paparesta against Collina.
Cordoba and Samuel are still rough players. They should really consider Thai-kick boxing after retiring from soccer.
And last of all
Mancini is still a wanker