I finally saw the highlights of this game at 5a m this morning (damn channel 5)
I was expecting after reading match reports, to see a totally abject Molinaro and an excellent Tiago.
To my surprise but not shockingly I saw nothing of the sort.
Granted I only saw 1 hour of the game, 30 mins each half but unless they cut out all the bits where Molinaro sucked big time and Tiago was on fire then i don't what the fuss was all about.
First of all Molinaro, he did not play that wel from what I saw but he was no worse than the other back 4 and most of the dangerous moments from Juve were not down his side as Buffon's great save of Rocchi's shot came from a cross from the opposite side.
Pandev's 1st goal was a from Mutarelli's cross from the right, and Pandev's 2nd was also from a right sided cross but he is usually the scapegoat on here.
Andy, Juve Sempre and some others were at pains to tell us how well Tiago performed but unless i am missing something, I did not see it.
The so called assist to Trez was firstly a foul on Mudingayi that the Italian directors showed again to prove it wasa foul and Trez was by himself and i guarantee every member of this forum would have made that pass.
I thought it was an eye of the needle pass but it was just a simple pass to Trez who was totally free. He in the 30 minutes of 2nd half passed the ball 4 times to an opponent.
I am not hating on him, Andy and his price tag has got nothing to do with it. He is the same player that I have noticed from Chelsea days and he is just another player to me.
You can understand those that have never seen him play expecting incredible things from him cos of his price tag.
Not his fault he cost that much but life is never fair, ppl expect that because you cost a lot you gotta be special and when Zanetti starts producing better passes than he does then it makes you wonder.
I don't remember the person that said his passes were weak because that person was absolutely right. The passes that take out opposition, when he tried them, were easily cut out.
He did play badly or anything but he did not do anything that would make me think drop so and so player for his inclusion.
As for Molinaro, like I said unless they did not show where he was really horrible then the stick he got on here was over the top just like the Tiago praise