Matchday thread for today's encounter.

Would love to see us bashing Napoli, they are in terrible form nowadays, get us a nice Christmas trophy guys

Probabla formations and everything else:

Buon Natale to them celebrating.


What a cristmas treat this could be.

Link please

Is it just me...or does the players seem tired?

Horrible Penalties. Should've let Buffon take one. *bleep* THIS SHITT *bleep*.

Idc what anyone says, Buffon is still top 3 keepers in the world. But I'm just shocked at the fact we didn't win, I hate seeing other teams lift a trophy we could've won.

How do you guys cheer yourselves up after a game like this. Ik this is a Super Cup, but it's still a big trophy and I hate seeing Juve lose especially when Buffon performs well. It makes me think about it too much even in the future, I'll be thinking what if one of the penalty takers scored and just put it down the middle. I hope we don't lose our form and comeback more confident.

I feel bad...Gigi did miracles and we still lost

Do you think we'll beat Napoli in the next two games we play them in? I still think we're a better team and even though we played well today, I don't think it was our best performance.

The team was in vacation mode. Thats why we lost. Simple as that. We had 5 chances and *bleep* em all up

Can't believe we actually lost this. I feel sorry for Buffon he has done miracles today but the team let him down..

Lol am I the onlyone who doesn't even care about this match? I was even sleeping

DeviAngel wrote:Lol am I the onlyone who doesn't even care about this match? I was even sleeping

yeah its useless but I cared cuz I was there. I learned something about the players...
vidal cares about the fans and cm8 doesn't... vidal waved at us in the hotel ffs :/ cm8 just put his bag in the bus and entered the bus, which made me loose some respect for him...

salmano9 wrote:

DeviAngel wrote:Lol am I the onlyone who doesn't even care about this match? I was even sleeping

yeah its useless but I cared cuz I was there. I learned something about the players...
vidal cares about the fans and cm8 doesn't... vidal waved at us in the hotel ffs :/ cm8 just put his bag in the bus and entered the bus, which made me loose some respect for him...

Well you can't judge a person from just one view, CM was maybe tired, maybe he wanted rest do you know how many ppl they greet in a day? I don't know, maybe he wasn't feeling up to it who knows.

Remember if a player acknowledged every fan they encountered they'd get about 5 minutes of training and sleep per day

honestly don't think there was much we could have done, my only disappointments were we seemed to relax and soak pressure whenever we took the lead and Napoli seemed to treasure those opportunities...

why didn't Evra take the penalty instead of Chiellini? (tbh as soon as he stepped up I knew he would miss )

how much are we supposed to pay to sign Perreyra fully again? anything above 7m for that scrub is a rip-off and am glad he is showing his true colors, I mean come on if you honestly think this guy will turn out to be the next di Maria or Sanchez, please reset your brain, the guy is a pure fraud,

look at available quality AM's I mean if Shakiri is going for 18-20m or Mata for say 13m or even Firmino for 25m and we spend 18m for a fraud then that would be quite disappointing.....

all in all it was a good Supercopa and the hungrier team won the day, anyone know when Barzagli and Caceres come back? cos Bonucci is a train wreak in a back 4, his mistakes are costing us in or last games...

gotta feel bad for Buffon though, but man imagine if we had Tevez-Higuain leading our attack, that'd be pure sex....

Why do we with one of the best MFs in the world always let teams pin us back for extended periods

It's almost as if we want to play Catenaccio at times, yet we have no pace to hit people on the counter rendering us useless unless Tevez does his stuff, which is ridiculous for us.

I remember last year during the celebrations of the serie A, when they were calling the players to get their medals, CM was the only one who didn't tag the little kids... just clapping for the fans... But yeah, as you said, maybe he had a bad day. But aruro really seemed to be enthusiastic. I like his personality. Hahahahaha I shouted to padwin: Forza simone!! He was like bravo bravo lol...

Marrota was calm too...

But allegri... lol, quiet as usual. That face as usual...

Vidal played a great game yesterday bar a couple of mistakes. When he would lose the ball he'd track back and put in a slide tackle that I wouldn't expect any player to make. He also created a couple of chances for other players. Buffon was obviously our best player. The CB's were kind of bad at times, Full Backs were good, especially Evra, Pirlo started well but then he started to give away some passes, Pereyra needed to defend better and learn how to shoot penalties, but I still think he's a good player, though I agree we should sign Shaqiri. Llorente was good at holding up the ball, Tevez had a great game bar the penalty miss, Pogba was good but tried a bit too much at times, but his chemistry with Evra is good in my opinion. And Marchisio was average but he started to play better when he moved to Pirlo's position.