This will be difficuilt since we gave away 2 goals. But the players will have a point to prove against these whining b!tches.

I don't know if we'll have anyone else fit for this one aside from Robs, is there any word on whether VB can play?. Also, Allegri simply cannot start Muntari, he's a brainless idiot sent by Inter to sabatoge us. No wonder they paid us to take him. He's a regular Trojan Horse if you ask me

Aquilani has to start.

I'm thinking we'll go with something like this:

I hope we win this one, dump Juventus out, just so I can hear Conte talk through his knickers again. Like they say, once and idiot, always an idiot, let's hear him open his mouth again.

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Schooling the grammar police - Priceless!


EDIT: This one was for you han!

You got me there, Trini. Good eye! And here I thought you were on my side.

I can't see us pulling this one. The boys need to play a perfect match, but somehow I think they're already thinking about Barcelona.

I'm a fair player. I'm on everyone's side have no fear.


I concur.

I think it's time we took every competition seriously. why not win both the Scudetto and the Coppa? besides we have failed to beat them every time we've played them this season which is not good at all for our image, this is our last shot to make up for it, we must take it. (if the refs don't screw us over again )

They cannot be thinking about Barca. Imo, this and the Roma game are far more important. The CL is out of our reach imo, we won't beat Barca over to legs and if we come anywhere near close the ref will step in and gift Barca a penalty or disallow us a goal or send off one of our players. It's expected from the refs and UEFA as this is what happens every season when Barca are involved. UEFA want a Real/Bayern vs Barca final and that is what they'll get


Agreed.

I'd be very happy with a domestic double plus sticking it to Juve. We've been better away from home this season plus we played the first leg when the entire team was a mess and we were going through a very bad patch.

We can surely get a result in this game, maybe not enough to go through but at least we'd have tried our best

Robinho is out. I'd like to see Inzaghi play for 30 minutes.

I highly doubt that will happen.

I'd rather play Maxi Lopez than El Shaarawy. He's been horrible lately.

Confirmed?

But he'll be back for Roma right?

Yeah, he should be back for... Come on now, han, what's the point of asking such questions anymore? Not even god knows when our injured players will be back.

Well just a few day ago it was just a slight thing and he'll only miss the Parma game.

Which is exactly my point. When it comes to injuries, we're a total mess. A few-days-long injury becomes a few-weeks-long injury, or even worse.

Speaking of which, I somehow doubt Abate will make it for Barça. They said the prognosis was two weeks, and that was last Thursday. Zambrotta again.

Zambro is defensively better so I wouldn't mind as long as he stays from from the attacking duties!

Zambrotta is defensively better than my trunks. What are you saying Zed??? Right now, Zambrotta isn't even half the player Abate is. And not because Abate is super class, but because Zambro is plain terrible. He could barely keep up against a ridiculous side like Parma, how do you think he would fare against Barça after 2 months of inactivity!

I thought Bonera is the 2nd choice for RB position.

Bonera against Barca's attack. now that'd be something!


Seedorf plays like **** against these small sides but usually raises his game on big occasions. why can't Zambro do the same? he has lots of experience and if fit, he can do defensive duties better than Abate (there are a few here who'll agree so it's not just me). there's enough time left until the Barca game for Zambro to get back in reasonable shape and Abate probably won't make it, so... do you think we got other choices?

I know he's inferior but he sure is better than Zambrotta. I mean, he's in better condition and shape, not that he has abilities.

Because if one player might perform better against tough sides doesn't mean everyone else can. And honestly, I don't think Seedorf is up to the task anymore. I don't think we've got better choices, no, but I also don't think Zambrotta is better defensively than Abate, who's by far our best fullback in all aspects.

Zambrotta is a smart player, he#ll obviously get burned if he has to take someone on for pace but positionally he's still the best FB we have. For Abate that doesn't look like such a flaw because he recovers quickly.

I'm not saying that Zambro is better than Abate, far from it. But he's not as bad as you're making him out to be. If he stays back and holds his position he won't get caught out easily. Certainly smarter than Antonini!

Yeah, as if defending is only about positioning. Let's not forget he's a fullback. His pushing forward contribution will be zero, and an opposition like Barça with pacy players will give him hell. The guy's rusty and loses the ball too often. His age has caught up to him and he should retire at the end of the season. But hey, what better choices do we have? Push Antonini on the right with Mesbah as LB? Or play Bonera instead of Abate? They're all crap solutions.

You really think the attackng aspect of our FBs game will be needed against Barca? If we want to get something out of that game than we have to play this smartly, going all out attack and pushing our sub-par FBs up to try and attack and get caught out is certainly not the way to go. In fact, if we had Nesta available I'd be all about a 3 man defensive line and we hit them on the counter.

Sort of a Napoli style of game, only far more sophisticated and with 3 top class CBs instead of 3 cr@ppy ones. I think it could work, and when we're trying to attack Thiago could easily move the ball up in midfield and spread play ala VB.

Allegri will rest Ibra and Thiago tomorrow. Our line-up should be: Amelia; Antonini, Mexes, Yepes, Mesbah; Aquilani, Muntari, Nocerino, Emanuelson; El Shaarawy, Maxi.

I guess we don't really care about reaching the final. Conte, on the other hand, said it will be the match of the year for them.

This will be very hard.

Has this been confirmed?

It's smart but man do I want to see us beat Juve and remove any chance of them winning anything this season! I guess he can always bring Ibra on later in the game when they're a bit tired

According to Mediaset, yes. The only reason I think why Allegri won't play Ambrosini would be that van Bommel can't recover for Roma, and considering Ambro can't play four games in 10 days (Parma, Juve, Roma, Barça), then he'll let him rest against Juve.

Its an interesting proposition, doubt it would work as efficiently as that of Napoli though.

Mediaset now changes mind. Ibra and Thiago will play.

Link

As they should. We need two goals, while keeping a clean sheet. A strong team is the order of the day!

Amelia; Antonini, Mexes, Silva, Mesbah; Aquilani, Seedorf, Muntari, Urby; Ibra, El Sha.

Storari Lichtsteiner Bonucci Chiellini De Ceglie Vidal Pirlo Giaccherini Pepe Del Piero Vucinic.

That midfield is too attack minded. Juve will run us over

Well we need to score...

And not conceed

But score too, twice over. To be on the safe side. Truth be told, the defense isn't as water tight as I would have liked. Anyway, let's hope for the best.

Muntari is so clumsy, it pains me to watch him. Especially when he has no one covering his @ss

Chiellini trying to chop up Ibra. Nice tactic, trying to remove him from our Scudetto equation

Nocerino will have to come on for Muntari at this rate. What was he doing a few minutes ago?

Trying to get sent off surely

DP goal. Mesbah the architect

2 minutes are you kidding me!

Long balls,how fucking pleasant to see that again.

Mesbah!!!

Omg!! How bad can he get?? Did the exact same thing as he did against Arsenal, got in Thiago's way and nearly a gaol for Juve

The task is still the same, score 2 goals

That being said, I can't see how we'll do that. Muntari and Mesbah are just awful, get Bonera on the right and switch Antonini back on the left FFS before Mesbah costs us another goal. Muntari also needs to GTFO! Bring on Nocerino.

Who do we have on the bench?

missed the first half a brief summary please

Thanks

Kept possessesion for nearly the entire half with no decent result (reminded me of our last months with Carlo). Mesbah f**ks up in the easiest of circumstances (basically ran himself into trouble - literally) and we conceeded a stupid goal

All the same, we still need to score twice, but we're playing like headless chickens, can't see how we'll manage to accomplish that.

Allegri should have just played the primavera if this was the approach we were going to take. No use risking players

Thanks....weren't we supposed to rest iBra and Silva?

Is it my logging online or is Mesbah scoring?