I wish someone would punch Conte in the face. I'm willing no pay.

I'd rather see someone pulling out his fake hair

It really is. So many mistakes...

Poachers gonna poach.


Cagliari's penalty was dodgey and they could've had about 3 players sent off today, can't put this on the ref.

3-1 anyway, Vucinic.

Yep, he did poach, good for him, at least he didn't have the time to miss as many chances as he usually does. I seriously do not understand what you see in these types of players. And as much as I don't like Pazzini's style, I still prefer him over this pretty boy any day of the week

I think it was terrible on both sides. Juve's penalty was just as terrible and before Matri's second goal there was a hand ball from Vidal I think.

I think you're too harsh on some. You say he wastes chances, he's had 10 shots in Serie a. 10. Hardly a lot. He's scored 3 of them too.


I'd need to see it again. I think his arms weren't outside of his body so it's difficult to give handball. But as I said, I could be wrong. Giovinco was basically untouched for the penalty.

Not too harsh, just don't think players like Matri or Pazzini belong at lubs like Juve and Milan and in the long run this always end up going sour. You think Pazzini will last here more than 2 seasons? And the only reason Matri is still there is because the Juve management are procrastinating on the striker issue. Had they bought someone great, they would have already won this title. Hands down. And I think this shortcoming will also be something that holds them back in Europe once they face the real top clubs.

Yep, his hands were not out, but the ball still hit his arm and had that happened at any other moment the ref would have most likely called the foul. It's once again the same case of trying to corrent one wrong with another so the teams can be "equal"

I do agree and I never said they are good enough. Matri isn't good enough for Juve, but Pazzini is good enough for what we are. They're good enough for high end Europa League teams in my opinion and that's basically what we are. We're not your usualy Serie A CL quality team - not with how we spend anyway.

I think Vucinic/Giovinco will be the only players still at Juve up front in 2 years time probably. Matri, Quags and Bendtner () will be gone.

Respectfully disagree with that bit but I won't go into it again. No matter how rough a moment we're in, Pazzini is still not good enough for us.

And he won't be good enough to help in our 3rd spot push, if SES has trouble in the 2nd half of the season then we're completely f@cked and THAT is when we'll actually become an EL team because we'll literally be playing in it come next season

Even Vucinic is pretty terrible on his days. I think out of all their strikers Vucinic has the biggest love/hate relationship with the Juve fans. He can have a couple of really great games and then go one a terrible run with huge misses and even lazier plays.

The amount of chances Juve players miss in each game has got to be a league record

Inter 1-1 Genoa FT

Did you see their miss from 2 feet out? Shocking and ridiculously funny.

Juve are going to walk to this title if Inter are their biggest challenge

Yeah, I saw it. Somehow I felt they would score a second, but good for us they didn't. If we win tonight, we'll only be 5 points behind. Now let's hope Lazio and Napoli stumble today as well.

Llorente to juve in July on a free it seems. He's obviously great value for free, but I don't think he's that elite striker they need to make them a true top European team in my opinion.

Yep, agreed. But that's good for us.

Agreed. And I'm iffy about Spanish players coming to Serie A. The past has thought us that this rarely works out well. Llorente is a decent player, but Juve would do better getting Drogba imo. He's still a great player

Had no idea where to put this, and indeed there was no thread for this in the match forum, so this seems the most prudent place:

We played a friendly today, or rather, we tried. I believe it was away to some tiny team called Prescota or something, but the match will be remembered for the wrong and right reasons.

Apparently a section of the home support took to booing and racially abusing Boateng - who had enough after a while, belted the ball towards them and applauded the decent fans before walking off in protest.

As did the rest of the team.

Pro Patria was the teams name, and yes, we've discussed this on another thread.

Could maybe link me to it?!

No problem: link

Make sure to check all new posts next time you sign in, Danny.

Rocchi to Inter. Err, ok.

What's so funny? He's a solid rotational player. A filler.

For a Serie B team, yeah.

I think you're being unfair here. Your criteria means the new Serie A is full of "Serie B quality" players - but that's just Inter's reality, just like it is ours as well.

I've never used that feature.

Danke.

Or maybe I've just never rated Rocchi.

I think Rocchi used to be very good. But he's 35 years old now! Imagine the reaction on here if we'd signed him!

Good god, I thought he was max. 33, but yes, 35 justifies X-O's reaction!

I personally just don't understand why Inter signed him. I think he's a decent player. But don't Inter have enough of those?

Can't see where he'll fit in with Milito, Palacio, Cassano, etc

He's supposed to be Milito's back-up.

Yep, like a finisher. It really is pointless, but whatever. Maybe there is something beyond that deal. Lazio and Inter have good relations and use to switch players regularly (just mind Favalli, Mihajlovic, Vieri, or more recently Zarate). Maybe Rocchi is a "gift" for something in the future.

So, Inter lost 3-0 earlier today to Udinese. Would I be wrong if I said they're as mediocre as we are this season?

Juve and Fiorentina lose at home against Samp and Pescara, respectively. Who would have thought.

Atm it doesn't really matter to us what Juve and Inter do. Our concerns are mostly Roma and Napoli. We'll see what they do tonight. But if we get a consistant run of games before the hard fixtures roll in we can get into third by the end of February imo

I wouldn't put Juve and Inter in the same bucket as Inter are very unstable and not as good. We are only 5 points away from them and it wouldn't suprise me if they finish outside of top3. Also, hope Lazio will have their bad time soon, we don't need them to overachieve this season.

Agreed. Inter are on the same level as us, Napoli, Roma, Fiorentina and Lazio. It'll be a hard race for those two CL spots indeed.

Great week for us anyway. The results went completely to our favor.

Except Lazio winning. a draw between Roma and Napoli would be perfect.

2-0 Napoli.

Cavani's goals will be enough for top 3 I think.

3-1, 76 min. Plus Roma with a man down. Game over.

4-1. What a r@pe.

Cavani surpassed El Sha as top goalscorer with 16 goals.

And to think that we got trashed by the very same team a few weeks ago.

To think we were able to come from 2 behind in Naples!

To think...


The fact is that all of the teams bar Juve are horribly inconsistant this season. It's just pointless to try to rationalise it.

I think we have a fairly light schedule coming up ahead uf us. This is the moment where we need to capitalise on the constant stumbling from the other teams if we want that 3rd spot

@ Jack. I wasn't lumping Juve and Inter together tbh. I was just saying that at this point what they do is not so important for us. We need to keep our eye on the prize, and right now that's Roma and Napoli

Of course we need to keep an eye on Inter, they're our direct competition.

Just like X-Off said, Inter are part of that prize along with Lazio and two teams you mentioned. Outside of Juve, it's anyone's game.