[SERIE A] Siena 0-1 JUVENTUS (18-Sep-2011) (19 Viewers)

[Vlad]

Except for players selection, today's game was good, not excellent but good. We need those kind of wins for confidence. Do you remember Chievo last year and the goal we conceded in 95. minute. Today we had control over the game. Siena had just one shot on target and that shot wasn't dangerous one.

 

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[K.O.]

Except for players selection, today's game was good, not excellent but good. We need those kind of wins for confidence. Do you remember Chievo last year and the goal we conceded in 95. minute. Today we had control over the game. Siena had just one shot on target and that shot wasn't dangerous one.

If the game was good then so was the players selection.

 

[Vlad]

If the game was good then so was the players selection.

Yes I've said god but we don't know what would have happened with Elia, Krasic and Vidal as starters. Mybe it would have been excellent. They are more pacey then today's selected duo, and all those times when Pepe and Giacherini got the ball and failed to give the final product, with those two I think situation would be different. Pepe and Giacherini lack quality, and that's the fact. I appreciate their hard work, but can you imagine with those two as starters us as scudetto winners?

 

[JuveJay]

Top Barzagli, nessun flop. Le pagelle della Juventus

Buffon 6 - Poco impegnato, rischia un po' nel finale. Non deve fare molto.
Lichtsteiner 6,5 - Difficile che sbagli una partita, anche oggi uno dei migliori in tutte e due le fasi.
Chiellini 6 - Qualche imprecisione e fallo di troppo nel primo tempo ma alla fine il suo contributo è prezioso. (11' st Bonucci 6 - prosegue il lavoro iniziato da Chiellini e porta a casa la sufficienza.).
Barzagli 7,5 - Molto attento e decisivo in fase di chiusura è in assoluto il migliore in campo. La sua prova è da nazionale. Sicuramente la miglior notizia per Conte.
Grosso 6 - Molto spaesato in avvio dove rischia di regalare un'azione pericolosissima al Siena. Cresce col passare dei minuti.
Pepe 6 - Non bene il primo tempo come tutta la squadra ma, nella ripresa, inizia lui l'azione del gol decisivo. Puntuale senza strafare.
Pirlo 7 - Sempre fondamentale quando si tratta di costruire e tenere palla. Metronomo indispensabile.
Marchisio 6,5 - Ripete la prova vista domenica scorsa a Parma con, in meno, il gol. Titolare inamovibile al momento.
Giaccherini 6 - Male il primo tempo, molto bene il secondo quando serve Vucinic nell'azione del gol. Si sacrifica nel momento del bisogno.
Matri 6,5 - Si sbatte per tutto il primo tempo in cerca dell'intesa con Vucinic. La trovano appena in tempo per segnare. Torna ad essere decisivo. (30' st Del Piero s.v.).
Vucinic 6 - Rischia la bocciatura ma inventa al momento giusto l'assist per Matri.. Regala il sorriso a Conte che comunque lo toglie. Si salva e salva la Juve. (9' Vidal 6,5 - Quando entra si fa sempre sentire. Sarà difficile continuare a tenerlo in panchina.)

TMW

 

[Joe]

Why isn't Krasic starting? Why is Giacch chosen over him?

 

[K.O.]

Yes I've said god but we don't know what would have happened with Elia, Krasic and Vidal as starters. Mybe it would have been excellent.?

And maybe just maybe our left flank would've been exposed since Elia doesn't defend well and Grosso got fucked up with no support whatsoever.

I don't want Pepe and Giac to start most of the games, but Conte read it perfectly and we got our 3 points away from home with relative ease, Lippi style.

 

[Kasaki]

I'm glad we got a 1-0 result today, showed the ability to squeeze out results. Also satisfied by how they closed down siena, and even grosso looked good out there.

 

[Vlad]

Why isn't Krasic starting? Why is Giacch chosen over him?

Conte says because of injury. Krasic suffered knock couple of weeks ago, and he is not 100% yet.

 

[Nicholas]

Conte said to Krasic:

'' You have 15 minutes, I expect in those 15 minutes you do more than 2000 minutes ''

 

[JuveJay]

And then what happened?

 

[Nicholas]

Matri got injured and he was told to sit down. I think he was scared

It was nothing like I thought, I think he'll start Wednesday.

 

[K.O.]

Matri got a knock, Conte opted for ADP.

 

[Vlad]

And maybe just maybe our left flank would've been exposed since Elia doesn't defend well and Grosso got fucked up with no support whatsoever.

It's debatable. We haven't seen him play yet, so we can't say would he defend or not. He is aware that playing for Juve is different then playing for Hamburg, and I think Conte would subbed him off if he wouldn't defend. But please Pepe had 1 cross out of 7 succesfull, 0 driblings out of 4, 27 passes and 75% succesfull ones. Real winger sould have more then 10 cross atempts and at least 3-4 to meet targets, more involvement in attack because in that way you put more preasure off your defence as their wide players are forced to defend more. We mostly tried through the middle. As unbelievable as it seems Giacherini had the exact same stats as Pepe. We have Pepe 1 and Pepe 2 on the wings

 

[Fake Melo]

Conte said to Krasic:

'' You have 15 minutes, I expect in those 15 minutes you do more than 2000 minutes ''

Could be. I noticed Krasic patted Conte on the back as well

 

[Nicholas]

1 shot on target all game for Siena. Now that's what I call more solid defending.

 

[K.O.]

It's debatable. We haven't seen him play yet, so we can't say would he defend or not. He is aware that playing for Juve is different then playing for Hamburg, and I think Conte would subbed him off if he wouldn't defend.

Exactly. We haven't seen him play, Conte watches him every morning since he joined this team, maybe he's working on his defensive qualities more now. Conte opted for Pepe and Giac, we got the 3 points. I'm not saying that Pepe is preferred to Elia because he's better, during the course of the season, Pepe is a bench player no doubt. You gotta view it from all angles, Don't forget that Elia is new to Serie A and the atmosphere away from home is not healthy for making a debut.

 

[Joe]

1 shot on target all game for Siena. Now that's what I call more solid defending.

That's excellent news. I hope the back line keeps it up.

Are there any highlight vids yet that anyone knows of? Unfortunately I drank a bit too much last night and slept through the game.

 

[Juve_fanatic]

All i care about is winning......and i dont care how we win, just that we win. TOday we won, and feels fucking fantastic!! Now, let Conte worry about the technical detalis of the game!

 

[Vlad]

Don't forget that Elia is new to Serie A and the atmosphere away from home is not healthy for making a debut.

Agree on that, but against Bologna I expect him to play at least as a sub.

 

[C4ISR]

Not as commanding a performance as it should have been, but a win and clean sheet nonetheless.

The memory from last season is still fresh in my mind, and it was this type of match that we consistently bottled all throughout the year. I was patiently awaiting for us to cave and concede 2 goals, or begin to scramble the ball and defend frantically after we took the lead, but saw nothing of that type. Buffon was barely tested and our defense was solid, 2 things which never happened last season in games like these.

From this perspective, giving it's only week 2, it's a noteworthy improvement even if the performance was clearly lacking. Hopefully Krasic and Elia start the next match, because Pepe, and to lesser extent Giaccherini, do not offer enough of a threat down the flanks. Once we become dangerous in those positions, we will really take off.