To Conte: Assuming that Juventus have little to prove in Serie A, is qualifying especially a matter of pride?
Tomorrow there is the return leg of an EL round of 16. What I always say is that Juventus’ habitat must be the Champions League and that we must have a path in the Champions League. That’s why this year there is a big regret for stopping at the group stage, ten minutes before the end of the game, and thus for not having our path. We slipped into Europa League, we’ll try to honor the challenge with our best effort to progress: with pride, passion, enthusiasm and everything we have.
To Buffon: Is this label of an unbeatable team in Italy starting to bother you, while outside of it things are different?
Labels are given, but they can quickly be torn off. That’s why I believe that when you have the opportunity to prove yourselves, there is always the hope to make everybody eat their words and change their mind.
To Conte: Will Tevez play? Today Totti said that Juve is the strongest team, but when things weren’t going very well, you always got some little help [by the referees]. Do you want to comment this?
The first question, the right one, what was it?
Will Tevez play?
Right, he’ll play.
To Buffon: Speaking of cancelled labels, finally there is no more talk about the unsaved penalties. How did you live this rehabilitation?
As far as I’m concerned, I’ve nothing to say, only there was a lack of will to go searching for the goalkeeping stats, they were only speaking hearsay. When they found this will, they discovered that they were saying something incorrect and very distant from the truth. It’s a good thing that somebody did this effort.
To Conte: a remark on these injuries that are starting to increase. Is it a coincidence?
It is surely a particular moment, maybe the most critical on the injury standpoint under my tenure. Injuries can happen, they are part of a season, maybe I should have rotated the squad more, while maybe I always fielded the same players.
To Conte: To contextualize tomorrow’s game, is it enough to consider the last two matches or you have to include in the records also the first match in Florence?
We have to summarize all three matches and to make the needed and careful evaluations. We did that and surely they did that too. We need to consider all three games.
Who has more to lose?
Conte: I start from the premises that all matches in Italy are full of tensions and pressures for both teams. Sincerely, I don’t feel all this pressure on Juventus because Juventus’ path shouldn’t have been in Europa League, but in Champions League. Our big regret is the elimination in Turkey, by the hands of Galatasaray. That said, we started this path and it’s right to try to do our best. We are used to the pressures and they will be the same that accompany us in every game, because Juventus always have to win regardless, so nothing change.
Buffon: In my opinion, when there are these games there is not somebody who has more and somebody who has less to lose. Who will exit will have had something to lose because, in the end, in a big or in a small way, everybody has to look at his own backyard and hope to have this satisfaction to try to move on in this competition.
Seeing the last five games you played against Fiorentina, it seems that no other team has made you labor more, also tactically, beside last year’s game in Turin where you smashed them. What is Fiorentina’s quality that make your game difficult, compared to other teams?
Conte: I think that we suffer in the last 20 minutes against Fiorentina. I don’t know if there is an explanation. Maybe they suffer in the first 70’ and we do that in the last 20’.
Buffon: I don’t know if it’s randomness or not, surely tomorrow there will be another game and another test to see if it’s right or not. Anyway, surely we can’t deny the fact that Fiorentina is composed by excellent, world class elements, so it’s normal that they can make you struggle. And they have a very good coach.
Thinking about the first leg, is Gomez the player you have to fear the most?
Conte: I don’t think we must fear only one player, but the whole roster, because it’s composed by world class, high quality players. One name I’d like to mention is Borja Valero, that is certainly an extraordinary player in the interpretation of his role. But we could name many more: Cuadrado, Pizarro, Gomez, Rodriguez, Savic that are surely doing well and are excellent players. There is not only one player that worries me. We have great respect for the whole Fiorentina squad.
Buffon: I think that the coach is right, as far as I’m concerned, since I’m a defender, I say let’s keep an eye on their strikers, on Matri and Gomez, and on who attacks a lot.
First!
Juventus squad for Fiorentina: Buffon, Chiellini, Caceres, Pogba, Vucinic, Tevez, Llorente, Osvaldo, Bonucci, Padoin, Pirlo, Asamoah, Vidal, Lichtsteiner, Storari, Isla, Rubinho, Mattiello, Romagna
I applaud including youngsters (2) but knowing Conte they won’t play anyway.. And he rarely calls up youngsters, I hope he’s downplaying the importance of EL and that we really go for the win
cmon people! why did you allow this guy to get the honourable first comment!? do i need be awake 24/7 just to prevent such an abomination :p
btw Marc, something reminded me that i never showed you my pegasus shirt, would you like me to post a pic? and yes people this is off topic, so if you dont like, ignore 🙂
Your pegasus shirt is the true abomination! 😛
i hope you had a good giggle >:I
I couldn’t resist mate 😛
its ok, that was funny. i was giggling like a chinese anime girl.
That is a funny mental picture actually
Do I even need to tell you the answer to that question John?
guys, theres this free thing online called “duolingo” and you could learn all sort of languages for free! i havent tried it yet because im downloading the app as i speak.
finally i could learn spanish and communicate properly with more than half the people i play soccer with! would you guys believe that for FOUR years! some older guys kept speaking to me in spanish cuz they thought i understood. i would just nod my head and be like ” oh, si si” until finally, my friend told them i dont speak spanish :p
and the icon for the app is so awesome… its a green bird. if you couldnt tell, im so excited.
draw monsters haha
yo man, everybodu needs them an at home hobby
dem peeple jus need 2 lern amarican. Fuk deez uther langages.
yea! when will those julios learn that to survive in murica, you need to learn the language :p
here is a suggestion for the site: it seams that new articles/threads are popping out quite frequently. Just yesterday there were two. If this is the case then we should adopt more of a forum feel. Perhaps have 1 or 2 centralized posting threads and then articles with no commenting on them. Its hard to keep track of the conversations this way and hard to comment on each article.
no! things are perfect as they stand!
People complained when there was one thread the kept going and now it’s updated regularly they still complain.. You’d think that people on this site just like complaining..
just one thread for match would be great
I like the ratings after the game.. No matter how much I may disagree with most of them, it’s a good touch but I agree that all the build up articles are too much.
i like it too.
the posts are good – but the art work and pictures suck ass … I have preffered reading https://www.blackwhitereadallover.com than this site due to that … it hurts my eyes the way the web site is being presented right now..
how can it hurt your eyes?! i keep the page always down here at the comments section
i totally agree
Just over a hour to kick-off,FORZA JUVE ALE!
official lineup:
Buffon
Caceres-Bonucci-Chiellini
Isla-Vidal-Pirlo-Pogba-Asamoah
Tevez-Llorente
Fiorentina going 3-5-1-1 unlike 4-3-1-2 like last time:
Neto
Tomovic-Rodriguez-Savic
Cuadrado-Aquilani-Pizarro-Valero-Vargas
Ilicic
Gomez
We need to win the mid-field battle dude
JUVE JUVE JUVE JUVE
LET’S GO
Lets go mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!
any predictions? i go for a 2-2
I will settle for that,but don’t think my heart would like it lol.
Wow, Fiore have come to play tonight, my heart aint gonna like this one single bit
Fiorentina dominating this game so far
How is that not a yellow for pizarro? He tried to grab the ball away from tevez’s feet!!!
ok i have to ask. its been at least three games since i noticed… whats up with tevezs hair?
it’s been longer than 3 games dude. As long as he continues to make the difference, I don’t care how he cuts it 😛
He has the same hairdresser as Pogba now? :p
A blind guy on the street corner?
A sheep shearer from somewhere in the Italian hills xD
Ok, my breathing is starting to return to normal
oiiiiiiii, that was a pen imo
At least we’re getting some attacks out now
So if Cuadrado goes down, it’s a free kick for Fiora
Seems like it lol
Fiorentina’s gonna score…
dont be a debbie downer
So many sloppy passes
Oh I get what we are doing here, as opposed to our old sneaky tactics of control the game for a bit then surprise them by letting them back into it, were going to double shock them by letting them take control then have us come back i to it.
ahh brilliant observation Marc.
What did I miss, what’s happened so far?
Well what happened was you had a hissy fit, the game started. They had a few chances, neto made a good save on pogba and aside from a few good moves our passing has been dire.
Dear God just give it a rest dude.
Didn’t take you long to stop ignoring me.. But you’re welcome for answering your question. You did see your messages yesterday right? Total hissy fit. But really we don’t have time for more of your attention seeking right now, we all have a game to watch.
Oh you want that to resume? No problem.
As I said, nobody has time for your attention seeking as we are watching juventus so take your hissy fits elsewhere if you want to have one.
It’s actually half time. Please continue, I am ready.
xD get the popcorn ready
Already have it 😛
Good lad :p
I have no time for his attention seeking at any time though, sorry you’ll have to get your kicks elsewhere. Or you may get lucky and he’ll have another breakdown which John tries to calm him from, but seems unlikely.
Attention seeking because I’m just replying to you. Bro you are the one that’s bringing attention to yourself, I’m just trying to be respectful to you. Theres a reason why I replied to you. Take it how you want, that’s your choice man.
Well there’s some more awful logic by you but whatever you say, don’t wanna bring any more ‘rage’ from you regardless of how fun it is to watch.
hilarious, you are hilarious XD
Nothing really, we are playing quite bad..
why cant we just commit to those type of plays all the time. such a beautiful passage play
Oh my god that was an open goal for Ilicic
tevez a bit too desperate
Conte says we dominate fiorentina for the first 70 and they dominate for the last 20. Well theyve dominated for the first 45. Lets turn it around in the second half
We need to if we have any hope of going through, currently this game has 0-0 wrote all over it.
there were promising moments on are part tho
Can’t believe that Juve is probably not going to play the final in their own stadium.
why people get so pessimistic i dont understand.
It’s a recurring theme on this site
and every other site too.
Just being realistic, With the way they’re playing…
but we have a history of winning games in the 2nd half and even in the last mins. plus playing one great half seems to be our forte
Well we’ll see , hope so though
So far it’s looking rather dire, we’re playing sloppy and no really good chances on a goal yet
Pogba forced a good save
Not really, the first was offside and the other was straight at the keeper. Just saying, that was indeed the best we created so far
It wasn’t called offside though, was it?
Yeah it was I think
Oh.. Well in hat case ffs juve sort it out!!
Yeah doesn’t really matter, you know we play bad when that is the best we had in the first half. Hopefully Juve goes all out in the next half, we need a damn goal.
Would be a good start to get the passes sorted out, so many bad ones already
Wow, 45 minutes of English commentary and they haven’t said anything stupid or inaccurate.. Good show sportsnet
I’m using stvstream with a dutch commentator, not bad either
and my maltese commentator is soo stupid and doesn’t know half the things he’s talking about, one moment he’s saying pogba’s having a bad games, the next he’s praising his game today, plus, he didn’t shut up for one second throughout the half
xD mine was rather silent, at times I thought he fell asleep or something
In our past 5 games against fiorentina, we have been unable to score in the second half. Hope that changes
what a spirit lifting statistic xD
https://gofirstrow.eu/
Yes that’s the start we want! direct attacking
The only thing I like about Fiore is Montella
I like most of their players too, it’s just the board that seem like a bunch of d*cks
I don’t, i dont know why
Great run from Cuadrado.
omg Vidal, that was such a stupid foul
Was very needed foul.
not really
Cuadrado couldve scored if he kept going.
There were 3 defenders in front of him.
so Borja Valero in the free kick. there was around Cuadrado more well positioned players to stop him
There were 4ppl around him, surely one of them could take the ball away without just shoving him to the ground
Ur right, still kinda dangerous
so theres a person getting an interview in a clear glass room here in the library… i wanna make funny faces at her soo badly.
Do it and record it :p
im loving how Tevez just turns and runs
Brilliant ball by Isla there
Was really close to a goal there
After pirlo, he prbly has the best crosses
Yeah he really improved these days, some damn good crosses
They can be fantastic but I’d say a good 60% of them don’t pass the first man
Vudal really needs to work on headers
GOOOOAAAL
What?
why you gotz to tease?
sorry eheh
Practicing ?
Either I’m lagging far behind or you’re talking nonsense :p
nonsense talkin no doubt
Pogba has been playing well tonight but my goodness his passing is dire and has been for a while now, really needs to work on it
I’d say sub Llorente for someone more dynamic. Osvaldo, Gio, Vucinic.
Gio is injured
Oh yeah I forgot, Osvaldo or Vucinic then. Llorente isn’t controlling the ball well enough imo and not making much impact
haven’t seen nothing of Vucinic lately, why?
He’s been injured i think
is he on the bench?
Was injured and then he was as good as sold so I guess he’s just a bit out of the picture
Apparently tevez hasn’t scored a goal in Europe in over 60 shots..
Guys can we try to not shoot straight at the keeper anymore, this is getting frustrating xD
BYE BYE
Oh my goodness, we have to win this now
FUCK YEAH this is our chance
May lead to them playing more defensively which will make it harder for us to score
They already were so fuck it, now at least one man more to score with
Quite sad, actually..
I know but I’ll take it xD
Please God…
Cpme on!!!! DAI DAI DAI!!!
PIRLO MAKE IT COUNT
GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL
PIRLOOOOOOOOOO
GOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
Yeeaaaahhh ! We have to win this !!!!!
PIRLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 2 in 2!!!
ANDREA PIRLOOOOOO!!!!
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!
Was not expecting him to go for that corner
dont stop playing now please
One more
Finally something we can all agree on…
Score another and put this game to bed!
We need that insurance goal.
I LOVE YOU PIRLO
I love watching it with Buffon in the frame, he wasn’t even watching, he was just nonchalantly walking across his goal line.. He knew..
I guess he just developed a 6th sense for knowing when we’ll score from free kicks or not. First Del Piero and now Pirlo I guess.
Maybe he was thinking, these bitches better score or I’ll go take the next free kick 😛
and credit to chiellini and co for the mind games they were playing on the wall. they were calling for Andrea to shoot at where they were standing, so the keeper expected him to slip it in that area… Cmon Neto, you know Pirlo isnt predictable like that
FUCK YOU NETO
OH MY GOD.
It’s not Padoin.
DAAAAMN so close
Aah too bad Lichtsteiner couldnt really deliver that to anyone
Question, do they win on advantage if they score again?
No we go into extra time then
Oh ok thanks.
if they score it goes to extra time
It’s the sub I asked for but in the 85th minute..xd thanks Conte?
Shouldve killed it off Arturo.
Well played osvaldo but Vidal.. Again, heading practice for you this week!
I loved Howard webbs face there
i was thinking the exact same thing haha
nice piece of drama Neto.
To be far to him, that looked like it bloody hurt
Yeah indeed at first sight it seemed overreacting
Yeah I didn’t even realised what had happened until he pointed to his head
Hmm okay after seeing replay, that did kinda look painful xD
Any predictions for the CL draw?
RM-Chelsea
Atletico-Man U
Barca-BvB
Bayern-P$G
I want to watch a Chelsea – Real at the final
but i dont think that Chelsea could make it to the final
We need to learn to kill games off
I actually thought that was one of our strenghts this season lol
for a while it had been but since january we’ve been struggling to kill games off
i agree
Fucking happy we advance here. AZ, Lyon, Benfica and Valencia also through now.
As much as I hate to say it.. Go Napoli!
Exactly 😛 They should advance too. And not as our opponents pretty please, not yet
I want lyon
Lyon seems nice. AZ, Betis and Basel/Salzburg too, the rest is more for next round
Az would be a dream.
what a way to start the beautiful season of spring!
Good win and all but my question is, WHY IS PIRLO’S CONTRACT NOT BEING EXTENDED ALREADY????????
He said the contract is all but ready but they focus on all the games they need to play first, then they’ll get to the contract
his contract is ready, he said it himself, he’s staying, he’s just gonna complete it after the hard games are done
Alright good because I’m getting pretty anxious for it to happen.
FINO ALLA FINE FORZA JUVENTUS
Im loving this win….Viola merda ale is the tune!!!!!!!!!
Nice “revenge” for the 4-2 we suffered in that stadium too!
Brilliant result,we weathered the storm,and come through JUVE style!!!!!!!
they won that battle but we won the war! huzaaah
5-5 throughout the season in our matches with them. But 7 points for us and 4 for them. Ha 😀
goal napoli,pandev
it sucks that i cant watch Juve on a consistent basis. Tevez is a damn joy to watch. if he never went to the city of manchester, he couldve been one of the greatest players, i have no doubt in my mind. he instantaneously always knows what to do when the ball arrives at his feet.
Regarding Pogba, he looked much better today. he wasnt always involved, but when in possession, he looked very composed, confident and rarely 2nd doubted his self.
and all i need to say about Pirlo is that he de boss.
Youre over rating tevez a bit there but yea he is a great player
i truly believe what i said. i remember before that whole incident regarding the subbing and misunderstanding, he would tear players inside out. just look at his dribbling instincts. youre born with that sort of capability.
He was as good at united and city as he has been here
Pogbas dribbling and ball control were great his end product be that passing or shooting was god awful as it has been for a while unfortunately
Pirlo is pirlo
i thought he was more explosive. plus he was often benched so i dont think he reached his maximum potential.
btw, is the new thread not working for you either? like are no new comments showing up?
oop not even close Neto
new thread yo!
whats going on with the new thread? new comments just go missing.
Yeah it all disappears –‘ I do like the draw in EL, Lyon should be a good opponent
This is a ghost’s doing. It must be. Juvefc is being haunted!!
I took alot of time to visit the site on my phone to type something after the draw and it just goes missing in the new thread :s
Anyways, Lyon nearly had problems against Viktoria Plzen. If Plzen finished their chances, it would have been extra time. We shouldn’t underrestimate them, but if we don’t they shouldn’t form a problem. Other than that, they bought Zagreb to lose with 9-0 or something so Ajax would be eliminated in the CL few years ago. Let’s kill them!!
Ready for tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!