Juventus V Olympiakos
19:45 UK
Champions League – Game 4 [4th November 2014] – Juventus Stadium
Juventus
We stand on a great precipice. The next month is the most critical run of this Juventus season to date. While the Serie A fixture list is not necessarily dangerous, though matches versus Torino and Fiorentina lay ahead, the three remaining Champions League games are all must wins for the Old Lady. The good news is that two of the three games are at Juventus Stadium, but Juve will have to travel to Malmo in late November. Of course, the last group stage match is versus Atletico Madrid. Most likely, Juventus will be in a win or die situation there, which should elevate the blood pressure of Juventini worldwide.
Depending on how you look at it, Juventus are either in the midst of a crisis, or turning the corner after a rough patch. Though tomorrow’s result pretty much decides which of these narratives continues on through the following weeks.
One thing to watch out for ahead of this match is both the lack of options, and the breadth of options that Max has. On the one hand, some players are injured or returning from injury and thus can’t play. Specifically, Angelo Ogbonna’s injury throws the backline into flux.
On the other hand, Max does have options. Even if he is forced to use a four man back line, well, that opens up an open role elsewhere in the field. We may see a 4-3-3, or a 4-3-1-2 of sorts. Alvaro Morata’s fine form also influences his decision. Why choose between Morata and Fernando Llorente when you can start both alongside Carlos Tevez?
That said, the big question is if Ogbonna starts. Giorgio Chiellini and Leo Bonucci will start in front of Gigi Buffon, that, we know. Although, we could see Chiellini at left back in a four man backline. Padoin could play at left back too, although of course Kwadwo Asamoah is first choice there.
Stephan Lichsteiner will start at right wing back or right back, and from there things are clearer. Paul Pogba and Claudio Marchisio are starting in midfield. Barring a big shift in formation, one of Arturo Vidal or Andrea Pirlo will start. That’s also an interesting choice as Marchisio can fill both of their roles.
Finally, up top we know Carlos Tevez is starting, and it’s widely reported that Morata is joining him. It’s possible to see someone else up top, but this is depending on the formation and not on Allegri’s preference over who will start: we know his preferred two for Tuesday.
This is the single most important game of the season, so far. There most likely will be games which have greater weight, but so far no one match has had as much of an influence on the season as tomorrow’s game will. Fino alla fine, forza Juventus.
Predicted Lineup
3-5-2 : Buffon; Ogbonna, Bonucci, Chiellini; Lichtsteiner, Vidal, Marchisio, Pogba, Padoin; Morata, Tevez
Injuries
Andrea Barzagli, Martin Caceres, Simone Pepe, Patrice Evra.
Angelo Ogbonna and Kwadwo Asamoah (Both in the squad)
Olympiakos
It’s tough to place a finger on Olympiakos. They kicked our ass last week, and they beat Atletico 3-2. However, they also lost to Malmo 2-0. That said, we know they will play quickly against Juventus, as they did in the first match. They will look to move the ball to Juve’s half with speed, and they will look to hit Juve’s defense when they are not totally organized. Basically, the game plan they used to beat Juve last time.
While Olympiakos are not in first place in Greece -undefeated PAOK are – they are still in rather fine form in the league. They’re five points off of first, but their only lost is to PAOK and they recently beat Panthinaikos in the “Aikos Derby.” That’s my name for the derby.
Olympiakos have a few injured players and they may be missing two starters from the last match: Alberto Botia and Alejandro Dominguez. Neither are critical absences for the side, but both men played well last time out so it will hurt Olympiakos. Ibrahim Afellay, who didn’t have a great game when he came on as a sub versus Juve, could start if Dominguez misses the match.
Predicted Lineup
4-4-1-1 : Roberto; Masuaku, Abidal, Botía, Elabdellaoui; Kasami, Milivojevic, Ndinga, Maniatis; Afellay, Mitroglou
Injuries
Jorge Benitez, Alejandro Domínguez and Alberto Botía
No more Bs Juve.
I hope to see a 4-3-3. Or 4-3-2-1 even with Tevez-Morata-Pereyra up top and Pogba-Marchisio-Vidal in the middle.
I like that 4-3-3. Maybe Coman for pereyra tho. He works well with licht
I think itll be risky playing Coman in such an important Cl match.
Allegri would even put in Padoin :p
reports shows that Tevez-Morata-Vidal up front. 433
4-3-2-1 is what sky are reporting:
Buffon
Licht Bon Chiell Ogbonna
March Pirlo Pogba
Vidal Tevez
Morata
I meant Asamoah, not Ogbonna
Not a bad lineup, cant wait to see Asamoah play LB, I have a feeling he will be really good.
interesting…
although i’d rather have vidal at the back and pogba or marchisio at the front
Marchisio should not be played there, he’s far better in a deeper position. Vidal will excell there, Pogba could do it too
Now this is what I call promising!
Sounds dangerous!
Pereyra over Marchisio? Nah, not for me
Or maybe Buffon
Licht Bon Chiell Asamoah
Vidal Pirlo Marchisio
Pogba
Morata Tevez
I like this one better, Marchisio should play deeper and either Pogba or Vidal in a more advanced role
Only problem is a serious lack of wingers here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlezB2kDk0I
the difference then and now
trezegol
It’s good Allegri is changing to 4 at the back. We won’t be so vulnerable against fast wingers on the counter attack! When we changed to a 4 at the back in Piraeus we created more chances as well.
Gazzetta saying it’s 4-3-1-2
Vidal behind Tevez Morata pairing. Could work if Vidal isn’t left isolated
Sky italia reporting a 4-4-2 formation……buffon,licht,bonucci,chiellini,asamoah,marchisio,pirlo,vidal,pogba,tevez,morata
primavera lost 3-0 🙁
I’d be okay with the exact same score as you typed tonight! 😀
lol,im nervous as hell,really want us all to be happy tonight and fight another day for the champs league.
We’ve gotta reach the 2nd round man. I feel if we don’t we can kiss Vidal and Pogba goodbye.
Can you provide one of those top quality streams you always have 🙂
Cricfree mate,you cant go wrong dude.
Always reliable Dino!
no probs…..here we go!!!!!!
Might be on dazsports.org or stvstreams.com. Dutch tv is showing alot of matches including Juve, so maybe they picked different matches.
Struggling to find one too today 😛
Dinos site is quite good
yeah i use it often too but it’s okay now, got one!
VINCERE NON E IMPORTANTE…..E L’UNICA COSA CHE CONTA
Why would Padoin ever start? I expect a draw or loss with him on the field.
you havent heard that have you???
Hes shown to be starting in the pics and lineup up top. I hope not, Id rather see Storari at LWB.
lol!!!!!!!!tpick my man i didnt notice!!!!i thought wtf???
Storari yes.I’m all for that.
A 3-5-2 with Padoin? There goes my of us winning
Any formation with Padoin is a joke. I dont understand why he plays… I get that fact that hes a hard worker and does what hes told, but hes the most average player on the team. He brings nothing to the team when he plays. We dont get any better, it just becomes easier to hold onto a draw or 1 goal lead, because all he does is get the ball and pass it back to someone else.
What’s worse is that his contract ends on 30.06.2016.
official lineups – allegri going with 4-4-2
like a base 4-4-2 or a variation? I dont want a repeat of Del Neri football.
According to the Juve site, it’s 4-4-2, diamond MF – Pirlo at the base, Vidal and Pogba either side, Marchisio behind the front 2…..or could be interpreted as a 4-3-1-2. Either way, it’s 4 CM;s
I hate the diamond mid, but I guess we cant play a real 4-3-1-2 with Pirlo playing.
it will look more like a diamond than anything else, albeit a really narrow diamond, but then we have Asamoah and Lichtsteiner down the flanks. Hope is that Vidal and Pogba are really up to running tonight. Get the feeling they’ll be up and down the pitch tonight
Thats odd
IT’s official ! Could be a 4-3-1-2….but definitely a change
Might be something good. The 3-5-2 isn’t gonna work anyway.
Marchisio upfront? Ugh id prefer Vidal up there. Hes the more creative player
Vidal is better at defending than Marchisio though.
No padoin, no party
no padion,BIG PARTY!!!
I can’t believe Allegri even considered playing Padoin.
That’s the media, not him
Slight change – Olympiakos playing a 4-3-2-1 formation
JUVE PER SEMPRE SARA……..JUVE JUVE JUVE JUVE
1 min untill the pundits start talking shit on SBS.
Vidal might be injured shit!
Why?
in training he looked like he pulled a muscle
Mind games
He’s on the field so i guess he’s fine.
CMON JUVE!! We’ve gotta do this.
any awesome streams?
Game time – Vidal starts.
12 years i’ve been running this site, closest we came was that final against Milan when we were so close.
It all comes down to nights like this. No second chances. Put up or shut up.
FORZA JUVE !!!!!!
Our team already looks more fluid!
Come on Dutch, need one of those beautiful streams
this one does fine for me now https://intsports.net/str3.html
I’ll put my webcam on my tv
That’ll work
Hi Marc
Hello John my dear
Is Padoin actually on the field or not? Had some troubles getting a stream, only able to start watching now
No
Thank god
Nice try to get a Pogboom goal there!
Good try Marchisio
Why didn’t Juve offer me one of those empty seats? 🙁
Well this is at least the Juve we want to see and at this rate I’m sure we’ll win tonight
Goool!
PIRLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ANDREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCKING MAESTRO!!!!!!!!!
ggoooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllll!! WHAT A FUCKING FK PIRLO!
Number 21 scores in minute 21, a real maestro at work
Pirlo has a bad match and then has a 1000x better match the next game. I love this guy…
PS: Sorry for saying you should be dropped
Our luck again
I fucking knew it…. Dumb cornor given away. It just had to go in
…………………………………………………………………
its fine at the intensity we’re playing we’ll win.
I have trouble saying that when we talk about Juve…
I agree with him. Were playing really well right now. We should win
Yeah but…. We have played well many times and still failed to win.
But i havent seen this kind of movement and fluidity in the midfield from Juve in europe. They look really good imo
If its not a guarentee in Italy then i can never call it one in europe.
speechless
Stupid corner, stupid marking
fuck off greeks
Shit i saw the pirlo goal then my stream cut, 1-1 already?
Yes
they do that on purpose. most streams cut off when a goal is scored so people can’t record it and post it on the internet. if that happens then the sites will get screwed over for broadcasting the footbal
well we can’t repeat the 7-0
Fuck sake Bonucci…
Bonucci REALLY
Lol Bonucci unmarked header fail
Wasnt it chiello?
no
nope
Morata……………………………………………………………………
ok morata
AAAHHHH
our last touch has been fucking terrible both bonucci and morata
how
If Morata wants to be our striker, then he can’t afford to miss those.
it happens
but if he does that again then that’ll be a problem
It shouldn’t. He was left alone, and he couln’t even hit the goal.
benzema is famous for missing those and he’s one of the worlds best 9’s
I’d take Benzema over Morata any day though.
well yeah 😛
Me too.
We have known many times where Juve had players that didn’t let it happen.
true, this is one of the reasons why we draw games in UCL. NO ONE CAN FINISH
if we had quags he would have buried that (especially since it’s a ucl game). those were the types of goals he would score almost 100%
No, no no don’t slow down now, keep up the high tempo
Vidal please just go for the ball next time ;s
4-3-1-2 is working out so far. lots of movement up front
Yup. And The midfield doesnt have to cover as much space, the players are closer to each other
HOW
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH fuck why did Marchisio had to hit it 🙁
OKAY WTF 4 FUCKING PEOPLE
OUR LUCK
We have the worst luck in the UCL
We just can’t afford all these misses, the shots that are on target are mostly saved by Roberto as well…
vidal is looking like he’s trying to prove something. maybe he feels threatened by pereyra?
threatened by Pereyra, that dude has hardly done anything that would give him Vidals spot 😛
Godddddddddddddddd
And now my stream dies
https://footmax.org/flash1.php
thanks but doesnt work either here 🙁
unlucky
Feel your pain
Dude we are making the best fucking plays in UCL history but still no fucking goal
I wonder if the UEFA appreciates it so much that they give us the trophy :p
holy jeez please someone take these chances
We can score a fucking fk but we can’t score into an empty net
To be fair, the guys who had the chance wouldn’t have scored that free kick either. And to be more fair, it was more unlucky than a fail. Marchisio might not have known there were others behind him, and thought he could score it, while if he didn’t touch it it would have been a 100% goal.
100% like that Morata chance.
Haha you’re hating him xD
How much did we pay for him again?
Too.
True. He gets paid to score them and he should. Deserved to be subbed off.
come on cut him some slack he failed
Juve are playing a great game imo. Though it’s frustrating how they still haven’t scored a 2nd.
So if olympiacos doesn’t score anymore, how many goals do Juve have to score in order to beat olympiacos if they would have the same points?
3-1 or any score where we have 2more goals than olympiakos at least
Cmon guys start with a bang and end as winners!!
Ffs why take off Morata
their goalkeeper can go fuck himself
there i said it
and there it is…..
fuck this, undeserved. fuck everything
are you kidding me?
i hereby quit as a juve fan
Bye bye
/sarcasm
Fuck this i have no words.
fucking sack allegri!!!!
for what exactly? he did exactly what you asked him LOL
And we are still losing.
Both their goals werelucky as f*ck
We shouldhave been fucking 5-2 up by now. Why cant our players fucking score?
You have to be fucking kidding me.
JUve need 20 chances, score 1. Olymiacos need 2 chances, score 2. Fuck this
good plan lets jsut embarass ourselves more
sack allegri…bring in sinsa
We need to fire the coach, send the strikers away and hire new ones. These guys cant fucking score if their live depends on it.
loool
>you ask for a 4 man defense.
> he listens to you and changes it.
> we lose
> you call for him to get fired
see anything wrong?
last game they owned us. this game they’re just lucky
y dont we ever play 4-3-3?????
there goes CHL….
i take that back 🙂
WE HAVE LUCK WE HAVE LUCK WE HAVE LUCK CALL THE NEWSPAPERS WE JUST HAD LUCK
CALL GUINNESS WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS
FUCK IT 2-2
finally!!!!!!
YEESSSSSSS
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS WE CAN FUCKING WIN
Seriously :DDDD Someone should make a GIF from this xD
obvious late stream is obvious
WE BETTER FUCKING WIN YOU FUCKING SHITFUCKS OF STRIKERS
keep crossing!
POGFUCKINGBOOOM FUCK YESSSSSS
POGBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
POGBAAAAA
get in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I CANT STOP SHOUTING RANDOM SHIT
GOOOOOOL