Gigi Buffon has hit back at the controversy of recent weeks, declaring: “shut up, go home and improve”
Following legitimate victories over both Inter and Napoli, there was an outpouring of criticism of the referees and the same arguments that typically haunt Juventus in big matches.
Despite winning both matches comfortably, Inter and Napoli were in uproar but Buffon has called time on the nonsense in the Italian media.
“I’ve often found that questions from journalists or articles in the media are designed to create bad feeling or tense situations, to get under the skin of fans,” Buffon told Mediaset.
“In this case, no, the opposite happened. The media has been very good at relieving tension and we insiders must examine our own conscience.
“We need to do that because I’ve seen interviews which made me feel gruesome, creating controversies out of things which were almost non-existent.
“I can understand controversy over things which are true, but with these things you need to shut up, go home and improve.
“If you want to create non-existent incidents and wave the white handkerchiefs, that means you’re completely out of order and I can’t appreciate or respect you.”
Capitano then turned his attention to the prospect of Juve winning a treble this season.
“Treble’ is a challenging and difficult word to say.
“I think you really do need to think big, but you need to keep your feet firmly planted on the ground too.
“Nothing should be ruled-out for teams like Juventus, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich; but always with our feet firmly on the ground and working with a lot of humility.
“If you say humble, no dream is out of reach, but if we only win the Scudetto then it wouldn’t be a disappointment.”
Italian teams havent got the heart to face their own shortcomings, they rather blame someone else for their failures.
Buffon is 100% right, they should shut up and improve instead of crying in the media
Grande Gigi! A living legend.
Oh Gigi, always says the right thing.
I will be interesting to see who can step up and fill Gigi’s role once the legend retires. At juve we have the potential, but who will be the next respected gentleman to follow ADP and Gigi?
I have no clue, they are in short supply
Out of context but Barcellona are through. This changes the whole scenario. Still Psg losing 6 1 Omg. Do these teams know how to play defensively. They were 4 0 up. Incredible
A lot of talk about a referee that helped barca. No matter how much help, 11 vs 11 PSG shouldn’t lose 6-1
I dont know Barca at home are always helped. Spanish players are good divers. But you should not let Barca get in the box. All you have to do is defend well and hit them with counter attacks. They leave a lot of space in the back. Still i am sad today very sad
You nailed it, as long as we don´t play the sacrificial lamb, play our own game, and above all play with grinta and determination and ultimately are up to the occassion they won´t be able to screw us, otherwise it would be impossible to the nth power to hide the robbery.
ref helped them like fuck.no doubt.BUT! psg run about 3 times on barca’ GK, 3times god damn, Di Maria and Cavani, psg loosers
They helped bayern last year like f… my friend as well. Guess who was in the recieving end
who?
Us my friend disallowed a goal in good position. Vidal clear penalty in Turin not given. You know little 50 50 decision going always the same way.
of course i knew the answer lol, but fuck it, it’s behind us. lets focus on this year
I bet you did still im very sad having barca is another thing i counted them out.
tbh, i dont care about any1 but us.We can beat any team, but gotta play on 100%
Agreed.Still they have the worlds best player. If he is top you just cant stop them. Even Buffon messed up the shot from Messi in the final. In all sincerity they are the only team im afraid of.
Messi was nowhere near worlds best player against us
Yeah still Buffon messed up what shoud have been an easy save. Thats the problem others are tense when they face him. If we play them we should place a marksmen on him to not let him breath.
C´mon pal how can you be afraid of an army of clowns who just take every PK they are awarded. You are much better than that i am sure. We can Juve are the only team that can pull it off the rest are just sacrificial lambs, ready to be sacrificed once they see the ballot come out of the pot at the UCL “random” draw.
Such a coincidence we see Arsenal vs Bayern PSG vs Barca every single year. Duh! So lame.
To beat the usual suspects we need to fight uphill, to swim upstream, they will try to screw us every step of the way no doubt about it, I guarantee it. Maybe we could have wind on our tail if some big player bets huge on us, otherwise it all boils down to us and God´s will.
CL Final Berlin, Pogba doesn’t get the penalty that was there. Barca scores on the ensuing counter. It’s a joke what the CL has become. If it isn’t Barca or Real, now wait, it’s only ever Barca and Real
Only 3 min to go they were 3 1. The keeper messed the free kick. Thats were all happened.
psg GK was terrible anyway
it evidently was all fabricated. One would have to suffer sever brain damage to believe sucha thing, It´s just a spectacle.
Ah, Seb! I saw no fabrication. Just a reminder that Barca remain one of the most impressive attacking outfits of all time. Indeed, some of their brightest stars are fading a little, Iniesta for example, but they were always going to win heavily in this game. Their performance in Paris was poor, and everything went right for PSG. A one-off. Followed by back to normal operating procedures.
There is a tendency to believe that Barca had some help, mainly due to the appalling capitulation of their visitors, but for me, it was no major surprise, just a reminder that Barca mean business and can still maul teams and that PSG, despite the millions are rarely tested by top drawer opponents, and it shows, especially over two legs when facing a superior side.
unbelivable,how can you start this game without knowing that barca are able to score 6 more or less goals. the defense was somewhere else. really shame on psg,that should never happen, but my respect to all the fuckers who bet money on barca tonight
You can’t defend against the ref bud. People can’t seem to grasp that concept.
Honestly.
I say this as an outsider, as a westerner since I am not european and write from the new world. More often than not I think UCL is just a rigged tournament, merely a business.
That PK that equaled the series was an outright robbery to PSG, Suarez dived as if he was Michael Phelps. With all due respect one thing I have noticed about europeans is they are very traditional and very hierarchical. Todays game gives me a feel of story fabrication, a story about a “heroical impossible epic comeback” I mean really? Maybe europeans buy it and dig that stuff but to me today´s tie was not epical or heroic at all but rather an outright charade.
These minnow teams seem to go into the pitch as if they had receive death threats just before jumping to the pitch. Players are humans and are entitled to err or fail, but many of the players performances are outright suspicious.
Honestly at this point I am not impressed by this competition, I cheer the team of my heart which is Juve, but honestly It wouldn´t surprise me if UCL chiefs try to make life hell to us. Anyone remember the Galatasaray fiasco when the match should have been postponed by bad weather and it wasn´t and it came to bite us? Anyone remember the Lyon game in France this year when the pitch was blatantly and shamefully inclined in Lyon´s favor? we won only out of our greatness, but it is crystal clear they wanted to screw us.
The frequency of games and ties that are tilted in favor of spanish sides or teams like Bayern is impossible to hide at this point.
I don´t feel today I saw a historic game, but rather a charade, a bull fight type of charade with a beast unknowingly (or even knowingly or willingly) set to be sacrificed for the sake of spectacle.
I am unimpressed
I had half hoped, half assumed before the game they would win 5-1 and go out agonisingly. That was my hope…and it nearly came true! They were never going to lose again, always going to dominate and win, it was merely a case of could PSG get 1 or 2 goals in between the onslaught.
It was instructive for many, myself included, to see Verratti, who made a few decent balls, but was otherwise over run. He is nowhere near worth the huge outlay required to prise him from PSG. True class stands firm in the face of the most brutal of wars…
How about the mascherano PK not given to PSG? had it been thiago Silva for sure they would have awarded it to Farce(a).
I am not denying Barca’s quality, not at all mate! Milan blew a 3-0 lead in Istanbul but this is ten times worse than that. Granted Suarez’s penalty is a complete fucking joke and an insult to any decent soccer player out there. This solidifies football as nothing more than a business. If anything its sickening and defeats any point of a competition in my eyes. Barcelona didn’t win this game, it was mostly handed to them by the referees. Actually I hate talking about this because if it happend to Juventus i PROBABLY would walk away from soccer for a year or so. Back to my original point, PSG is the most overhyped and overrated team in the last few years. Sure they have quality but there is no expectations off them, outside of winning League 1 I actually think Monaco would be harder pressed to perform in CL. I also dont get these effing coaches who come to camp nou to defend… heloooO!!!! it doesn’t work!! look back in the last few years geez the only reason psg won game 1 is because they pressed barcelona. If you sit back and defend for 90 minutes this would happen to even Juventus. Anyway, long story short folks, emery is not a tactical genius or even fit to run a big club. You don’t spend this much money to defend for 90 minutes…. just so dumb how they approached the game.
Agreed on some points, comrade…To let three goals in so late on showed zero backbone, poor organisation, no leaders, no belief, no spirit…They were always going to lose, yet to play so hugely on the back foot was an idiotic school boy error. And there lies the difference between Juve and many of the other sides. We can defend, have huge experience, a world class defence and goalkeeper who have been playing together for many moons.
Teams cannot play gung ho against Dybala and Higuain. For they will carve out chances the the elder of the duo is remarkably clinical. I actually think we may perform better against sides confident of attacking us from the start. Its probably Atletico who would cause us trouble, their counter attacking game is superb. They are masterful divers and con merchants, fiercely together and able to prod for gaps then exploit them at lightning pace.
Suarez should have been booked for simulation and tell me where 5 mins of injury time came from? Your comment is spot on, as the Match commentator was acting as if Suarez was dragged down..lol. Cunts the lot of them.
Forza Juve.
I will actually say this I hope we draw Farcellona for next tie. Get it over with once and for all, let´s exact revenge on the UCL Final and get our record straight, we are not the sacrificial lamb we were back then anymore.
That day we didn´t believe in us. Now we do, we got our act together.
We are ready for anyone, throw at us anyone you pick, Penaldo & co, Vidal and SS subsidiary, Farca olympic divers, we are ready t face anyone, better now than later, and if later, we are just as ready.
It is not about fear, Seb, for me, more about respect and reason. By my reckoning, the Hun are by far the most complete squad in the tournament. I would rather face them over one game, than over two legs. As they are a stronger side presently than they were last year, with everyone fit and in fine form. They have been this way for a while this season. Whereas we have only recently, the last two months, found anywhere near a fully fit side and a system which works.
Only ourselves and Munchen have solid defences, and very capable attacks. Others like RM and Barca have mainly splendid, sublime offensive talents. Atletico are somewhere in between, very balanced. And brimming with fight.
Still, whilst I lack your gusto, I am excited about our promise and progress.
Clean sheet tomorrow will be perfect answer Capitano:
No mate, what’s a complete joke is giving Barca two penalties, and 5 minutes injury time. They have no business being in the QF’s, and you want to talk backbone?, PSG withstood all that pressure and even started to go forward prior to Cavani’s goal. Di maria’s sub was a good move and it turned it around for PSG. Once they got the 5th goal, they had no reason to go forward any more and were correct in their tactics. How do you defend blatant match fixing?
Forza Juve.