[Serie A] JUVENTUS 2-1 Parma (March 26th 2014) (7 Viewers)
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Yeah, Llorente used to be a pleasure to watch when he collected all those hard, long balls and distributed them perfectly. Now he's very clumsy.
Of course it was a straight red. There is a rule for such a behaviour in the air. If he hit Giorgio in his temple it would be a nasty and very dangerous for his life.
We were quite fortunate towards the end. We need to stop allowing teams opportunities and giving them hope. We played a solid first half, and then allowed that fucker who used to send crosses into orbit to look like a legend by scoring that easily avoidable goal (I guess they didn't close him down cuz they know he is a clown and can't do shit with a ball). Parma did have a couple of chances after that, even after the Amauri sending off. They are a tough team indeed. However, we did manage to squeeze the win. 3 more points and edging ever closer to our 3rd consecutive title.
:hellyes: Could not have said it better myself. I love all the people saying we played better our first year with Conte. Drawventus was better? Really? We drew 15 matches that season, while not playing in Europe. We were nowhere near as dominant. We've dropped points in 4 matches all season thus far in 13/14.
Fairly sloppy performance from Juve, even if it is somewhat understandable given that the players can't be in great shape just now.
Juve never looked capable of hurting Parma from open play. It was all too slow and lacking in penetration. Key players like Vidal and Lichtsteiner weren't showing the usual inclination to burst forward to break lines or create space for others.
So Juve were reduced to threatening from quick breaks when Parma lost possession in dangerous areas, which is how the two goals came about.
Once Juve were ahead and had realised they didn't look like threatening Parma, they fell into the trap of having nothingy casual possession and risked letting Parma back into the game from a silly error in possession.
Not a new error, but this over-covering the centre of the pitch is something that Juve need to deal with. Both the goal and the late chance Parma had came from Juve pulling too many people into the middle of the box when defending a cross. You've got three centre-halves - how many more people do you need to defend a standard crosss?
Either Vidal or Lichtsteiner has to be out closer to Molinaro for the goal and Isla has to avoid getting sucked in so narrow on the late chance.
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Thought the Amauri red card was justified because the elbow was very high and there was a fair amount of force behind it. Always hard to determine intent, but that was reckless if it wasn't deliberate.
Don't remember the Vidal one, but I would have sent Asamoah off. He fouled Biabiany - stopping a counter-attack in the process - in a very similar situation to how he gothis first yellow card.
Juve never looked capable of hurting Parma from open play. It was all too slow and lacking in penetration. Key players like Vidal and Lichtsteiner weren't showing the usual inclination to burst forward to break lines or create space for others.
So Juve were reduced to threatening from quick breaks when Parma lost possession in dangerous areas, which is how the two goals came about.
Once Juve were ahead and had realised they didn't look like threatening Parma, they fell into the trap of having nothingy casual possession and risked letting Parma back into the game from a silly error in possession.
Not a new error, but this over-covering the centre of the pitch is something that Juve need to deal with. Both the goal and the late chance Parma had came from Juve pulling too many people into the middle of the box when defending a cross. You've got three centre-halves - how many more people do you need to defend a standard crosss?
Either Vidal or Lichtsteiner has to be out closer to Molinaro for the goal and Isla has to avoid getting sucked in so narrow on the late chance.
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Thought the Amauri red card was justified because the elbow was very high and there was a fair amount of force behind it. Always hard to determine intent, but that was reckless if it wasn't deliberate.
Don't remember the Vidal one, but I would have sent Asamoah off. He fouled Biabiany - stopping a counter-attack in the process - in a very similar situation to how he gothis first yellow card.
