furthermore if they did score, then all you smarties would have told "yeah, i saw it coming ... you can not always be in defense and wait for them to score ... it had to be like this"...
that is quite pathetic
The mental approach, the tactics, the formation,the focus/concentration and the determination are all important factors that may determine a goal and a result.
In Molinaro's thread, you mentioned numbers to prove that we have a very good defense, since our records says so.
But the numbers may hide some things, when taken out of the context.
We use a highly defensive team, with limited creative abilities and better overall quality than most of the teams in the league!
It is only normal that we impose our gameplay and dominate most of the games against inferior teams.
Playing with 2 DMs and 2 defensive side midfielders, who form a second defensive line, it is only difficult for any team to score against us.
But this doesnt mean, our defenders are better (individually and quality wise) from the rest of the teams!
Our formation, our quality keepers and our tactics all favor our weak defense.
But there are teams, when our adversaries, go past our defenders and expose them.
This is exactly what the numbers you mentioned mask and what you may notice with your own eyes, if you are/were regularly watching Juve!!
Quality teams and determined inferior material teams, may expose how weak, our defense really is.
This match was another example, thankfully , not a tragic one!!
We played against an inferior team, with full concentration not to concede and use 3-4 player to create and finish our scoring chances!
In most of the the match, our team, easily defended as a whole and struggled to score, because of the limited attacking material.
We managed to hold them back and push them back with our offensive players threatening them.
Right after we scored and the lines relaxed a little, our weakness have been exposed, our last line couldnt hold anymore when Lecce, an inferior team, pushed forward with all their lines, because they no longer had nothing to lose!!
They knew they could barely cope with us and thats why they didnt pushed forward from the start. Because we are Juve and are better than them.
Because our forwards can score more goals than their forwards!
They were happy with the 0-0 draw. And they would also serve our defensive record. But these record, doesnt represent the quality of our defense
and when they were called to do that, they just did that!!!
Manninghers interventions also flatter them, we conceded too many mistakes, a quality forward would have turned into goals!!
I cant see the reason to lie our selves and deny the truth!
Our defense, is by far our greatest weakness, in our team.
This is a fact and an issue that affects our team as a whole.
A better defense would involve more in the construction of our game, up front, providing forward support and the determination and confidence to pull forward, with everything we got!
More tactical choices would unlock to us and the ability to face more and better some difficult situations...
Hopefully CL games, against high quality teams, will not give us a bitter lesson on that...