The 2016/2017 Calcio Saga

BADEEEEEEEEEEEEELJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Classic Roma there.

hit the post one minute, concede a goal the very next.

Are you kidding me

See? A little bit of pressure and we just don't respond to it the way we should.

Unbelievable

If Roma had a decent players instead of Dzeko.. oh dear

Ffs Roma

HOLY SHIT TATARUSANUUUU

HOLD ON LA VIOLAAA

Like Dzeko. I like his movement, his hold up play, I like his interplay around him....I just don't like his finishing and the fact that he's so sensitive to confidence that allows for the finishing to take place.

FT 1-0

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cqkk5v_WEAA-1vO.jpg

I liked the performance though.

We really are a team of contradictions.

Play like shit against Samp = Win

Play much better against Fio = Lose.

INTER-JUVENTUS 2-1 (0-0)
NTER (4-2-3-1): Handanovic  ; D'Ambrosio , Miranda  , Murillo  , Santon   ; Medel    , Joao Mario  ; Candreva , Banega  , Eder     ; Icardi
 
JUVENTUS (3-5-2): Buffon ; Benatia , Bonucci  , Chiellini ; Lichtsteiner , Khedira , Pjanic , Asamoah , Alex Sandro ; Dybala , Mandzukic

The weirdest thing today was this : Had more Italian players than Juventus  

Robespierre wrote:INTER-JUVENTUS 2-1 (0-0)
NTER (4-2-3-1): Handanovic  ; D'Ambrosio , Miranda  , Murillo  , Santon   ; Medel    , Joao Mario  ; Candreva , Banega  , Eder     ; Icardi
 
JUVENTUS (3-5-2): Buffon ; Benatia , Bonucci  , Chiellini ; Lichtsteiner , Khedira , Pjanic , Asamoah , Alex Sandro ; Dybala , Mandzukic

The weirdest thing today was this : Had more Italian players than Juventus  

Well Barzagli came on at like 25 minutes
But let's not get into technicalities

I'll let you have your night robes

Fantastic impact by Juan Jesus in Rome

Don't know Italian to save RG's life but I agree with what Robes posted. Also, congrats to De Boer for winning Serie A, a fantastic achievement.

Robespierre wrote:INTER-JUVENTUS 2-1 (0-0)
NTER (4-2-3-1): Handanovic  ; D'Ambrosio , Miranda  , Murillo  , Santon   ; Medel    , Joao Mario  ; Candreva , Banega  , Eder     ; Icardi
 
JUVENTUS (3-5-2): Buffon ; Benatia , Bonucci  , Chiellini ; Lichtsteiner , Khedira , Pjanic , Asamoah , Alex Sandro ; Dybala , Mandzukic

The weirdest thing today was this : Had more Italian players than Juventus  

No wonder why our full backs are the weak link of the team

After Esanyol-Real , James Rodriguez " Inter wanted me but I knew I wanted to stay at Real Madrid."

ffs
I've read also we offered 85 for him

Tagliaventus was not so bad today. Maybe all the criticism before that match forced him to referee fairly.

Congrats to Inter. Totally outplayed Juve. Allegri flopped big time. His insistence on playing the archaic 3-5-2 against a team playing a 4-3-3 with a deadly striker like Icardi was a disaster waiting to happen.

We had old men Barzagli and Chiellini getting abused all night long. Not to mention a useless midfielder in Asamoah patrolling the middle of the pitch. People get on Khedira but last I checked he was one of the only midfielders that actually had scoring chances. He was marked all game long so what did you expect him to do?

Pjanic had very little impact as well as he is not used to playing in this archaic, defensive, play not to lose 3-5-2 formation.

Allegri needs to grow a pair. He got outcoached today by a guy who lost to a beer league team 3 days ago and was on sack watch.

Yes let's pay €90 million for a striker and bench him in the derby. That makes total sense to me. Why not bench Buffon and Dybala as well? They must be tired too. And what about Cuadrado? Is he still with Chelsea? I thought we signed him in the summer? I swear I saw his hair on the sidelines. Maybe instead of putting old man Barzagli out there to replace the injured Benatia only to get abused by Icardi, maybe Allegri could have used that opportunity to switch to a 4-3-3 and put in Cuadrado. But no he has no balls, his mentality is to play it safe. Typical Italian mentality. Coward.

It's clear our midfield sucks right now so why not switch to a 4-4-2? We have 2 dynamic wingers on the bench. But no let's play Asamoah in a 3 man midfield when he doesn't even know where the other box is located. He is a box midfielder, meaning he only knows the location of one box. Sell him quick Marotta before his value is zero. At least we can look forward to AFCON, as Asamoah will be thankfully away from Torino for a few weeks. Hopefully he extends his stay in Africa indefinitely.

Why can't you just admit that it had nothing to do with Juventus shortcomings, but just the class of Inter players who heretofore have not played to their individual potential nor until today, as a team.

I havent watched the game, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's just because Buffon has Icardi-phobia.

Juve is to Icardi what Atleti is to Messi

What about Peresic? He scored too.

But Icardi assist, right? Maybe he was just sharing his powers

I congratulated Inter on the win and said they outplayed Juve today. What else do you want? Are you saying Inter is a better team than Juve??

We had Higuain on the bench. If you sat Icardi would the result have been the same? We played a 3-5-2 against a 4-3-3. So 3 forwards against 2. Basic math would tell you Inter has the advantage there. You don't play a 3-5-2 against a team with 3 forwards. It usually doesn't end well. I thought it would be a tie as Juve had nothing left to score the winner. But Inter came through with that second goal so congrats to them.

But no if Allegri matches man for man against Inter and plays 3 forwards then Juve will either win or tie 9 times out of 10.