#Serie A: Chievo Verona vs Juventus

Aug 30 12:00pm EST

first game of the season to test Allegri (though this should be an easy one and not a good gauge for his ability)

I hear we have a lot of injuries (Llorente (?), Barzagli, Morata, Pirlo, Giovinco (?), Coman (?), Buffon (?), Vidal (?) ]

likely starting 11 for us.....


---------------------Buffon (?)---------------------

Lichsteiner--------Caceres/Ogbonna------Bonucci-------------Evra

-----------Pogba-----------Marchisio--------------Asamoah---------


---------Pereyra/Coman (?)------------------------Tevez/Giovinco---------


--------------------------Llorente(?)/Tevez--------------

[4-3-2-1]

(?)= status questionable for the game due to knock/flu or supposed injury

this game will offer us a good view of Allegri's 4-3-2-1, finally away from the tyranny of Conte's 3-5-2 (Papa Tom ). Formation change might hamper our game a bit as players are getting used to...... hope Vidal and Coman get some game time if fit, honestly I'd rather Coman starts over Pereyra who hasn't convinced me even in preseason bar scoring a scrappy goal over Sassuolo and failing so hard against really tactically poor teams on the Asian tour, hopefully he proves me wrong.....

Baraja's prediction: Chievo 1 - Juve 2, with a defense likely to comprise of Bonucci-Ogbonna I think we'll likely leak a goal but with the firepower we have I don't see why we cannot score 2 to start the season on a positive note........

everything goes here....... what are your views for the game?

Personally, I would start Asamoah at left-mid, behind Tevez with Peyera on the right...reason..if (god forbid) we get a injury...we really don't want to be a striker or 2 short at the beginning of the season...

Hopefuly we can do well against them. It should be an easy one. I really want to see romulo play though

Finally Serie A is back! Excited to see our new formation and hopefully a little bit of Coman?

Also this is the first time we use a 4 man in the back since the Del Neri days right? Let's hope it works out better this time around with Evra and Licht.

Sky say Coman is actually starting the game.

Coman

We must see Pogba levels of talent in him, and what better way to get his potential and turn it into actual quality than play him, and show dat faith

I'm excited for it.

S wrote:Sky say Coman is actually starting the game.

Woohooo im excited. .. im ready for this xD I cant wait lol!

@TSp... Noo we have used it with conte in 424 in the start and then 433 I remember with simone PEPPER in RW.

FINALLY!
It's so hard to try to watch any other league

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I have a feeling we'll start with the 3-5-2.

With all the injuries, we'll start with 3-5-2

At least we know if that's not working we'll change to a back 4 at some stage in the game

And our bench has legit options now.

@S: How about sky? What are they reporting?

I guess Tuttosport are right. Thats the one we will play with

Here's the official line-up from FI:
Juventus: Buffon; Caceres, Bonucci, Ogbonna; Lichtsteiner, Vidal, Marchisio, Pogba, Asamoah; Coman; Tevez.

It's time to start the Coman show!

Wat time do it start in America?

What time does it start in America?

Cotes wrote:What time does it start in America?

20 minutes from now

Interesting lineup, don't think we should play Coman in a striker position though. He looked really bright out wide, now we can't really make use of his speed, but we will see.

Our defense though.. I'm 100% sure we will concede today.

Hopefully our midfield will make up for the makeshift defence we're starting with. With Marchisio, Vidal and Pogba it's gonna be difficult for the opponents to break through and actually challenge our defenders.

guys, what's that 31 sign? are they mocking us?!

CACERESSSSSS. I had a feeling he'd score when I saw him in the box. I love this guy.

We have been firing on all cylinders, Vidal, Marchisio, Tevez, Pogba and have hit the post once, the crossbar twice. Unbelieveable that we just have the one goal so far.

TPSPriceless wrote:We have been firing on all cylinders, Vidal, Marchisio, Tevez, Pogba and have hit the post once, the crossbar twice. Unbelieveable that we just have the one goal so far.

add coman to that list

Ikr, and we hd one shot by Vidal basically cleared off the line. Coman is playing well but he needs to stop taking to long on the ball. ST isn't his position, I think he'd do much better at LW/RW.

TPSPriceless wrote:We have been firing on all cylinders, Vidal, Marchisio, Tevez, Pogba and have hit the post once, the crossbar twice. Unbelieveable that we just have the one goal so far.

For real...it's hard to judge most of the performance thus far though because the game is tight...
Chievo isn't playing badly to be honest
We need to go 2 goal up & quickly