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Serie A – Week 1 [30th August 2014] – Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi
After an excruciatingly long summer away from The Old Lady, Juventus and Massimiliano Allegri certainly did not fail to impress in Match Day 1 of the 14/15 season! From the first kick of the ball, Juve looked like a well-oiled machine with a staggering 72.4% of the possession after the first half-hour mark, something Allegri has been focusing on during preseason. Today was one of those days where it is almost impossible to find one piece of criticism about any of the players other than the lack of finishing in a game that was dominated and could have certainly ended in a greater scoreline.
While the final score wasn’t 3-0 or 4-0 like it could have been, it only took Juventus 6 minutes to score through a beautifully taken corner by Carlitos Tevez to find the flying head of Martin Caceres and eventually to be counted as a Francesco Bardi own-goal. With skepticism and the fear of Juve not being able to go into this season with the same amount of grit and desire to win as the previous three, Allegri made the message clear that the best things don’t come in 3’s, but in 4’s.
After bombarding Bardi throughout the match, the Bianconeri managed to strike the post once and the cross-bar twice, only adding to the misfortune of The Old Lady. Luckily, the one goal was to be enough due to excellent defending from Ogbonna, Bonucci and Caceres who were very solid today and only allowed a couple chances for the Flying Donkeys.
Every well-oiled machine needs its engine, and luckily for Juventus, there is more than one. On the flanks were the usual suspects of Kwadwo Asamoah and Stephan Lichtsteiner who were running non-stop the entire match between making great defensive plays and precise crosses to the forwards, including Asamoah’s clean sliding challenge that stopped Chievo’s attack and Lichtsteiner’s beautiful cross late in the game to Llorente that could have made it 2-0.
While Juventus had no shortage of engines, they were forced to play the match without their figurative brain, Andrea Pirlo, who is injured and was replaced by “Il Principino,” Claudio Marchisio. The Turin-born boy looked great in the regista role as we’ve seen him take that position in Pirlo’s absence and due to his naturalness in that position, Juve do not suffer as much when the Maestro is missing.
Today, Juve looked like Juve and Pogba looked like Pogba. It wouldn’t be possible to describe what Pogba has added to The Old Lady since joining from Manchester United back in 2012, but with a more attacking role given to him by Allegri, Pogba was closer to goal and more involved in play in the final-third and he looked very hungry and determined to score another “Pogboom.” Next to fellow countryman, Kingsley Coman, Pogba looked quite comfortable going forward linking with Tevez and co.
After the inclusion of newly-signed Roberto Pereyra who came in for a fatigued Arturo Vidal, Juventus began to go into cruise control for the last few minutes of the game. Despite a great defensive performance, the back-line had let their guard down for a brief moment and allowed Maxi Lopez to get a shot on target which was brilliantly blocked away by legendary Gigi Buffon to deny Chievo of any chance of stealing 2 points from Juve.
It has been a long mercato, and after today it seems as though Giuseppe “San Beppe” Marotta has found another gem–and like some of his previous stellar-signings–Kingsley Coman is shaping out to be quite the player. At just 18 years old, Coman played like a veteran oozing with confidence and class. Between making excellent runs, key passes, mouthwatering dribbles and impressive shots on target, there is no doubt that “King” Coman certainly had a debut to remember, and one that Allegri will not forget as well. Although Allegri fielded a 3-5-2 with Tevez and Coman pairing in the attack, the Frenchman covered most of the attacking-half of the pitch making runs from the flank, through the middle and deeper to link with Marchisio, Pogba and Vidal. Unfortunately, Coman wouldn’t find the back of the net and was taken of in the 67th minute with a standing ovation from the fans for Fernando Llorente, who was recovering from the flu.
All in all, today was a great day for the Bianconeri. The mission of getting all 3 points and a clean sheet has been achieved and Allegri can earn more respect from the fans. Standing ovations, chants and songs from the traveling fans only point to the desire for more success in the 2014/15 season!
Statistics
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Man of the Match: | Carlos Tevez | ![]() |
Corners | 11 | ![]() |
Total Shots: | 21 |
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Flop of the Match: | N/A | ![]() |
Pass Accuracy: | 85% | ![]() |
Ball Possession: | 74% |
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Fouls: | 14 | ![]() |
Shots on Target: | 3 | ![]() |
Formation: | 3-5-1-1 |
Formation:

Lineups:
Chievo: Bardi; Frey, Dainelli, Cesar, Biraghi; Izco, Mangani (Radovanovic 46) (Cofie 69), Hetemaj; Schelotto (Paloschi 46), Birsa; Maxi Lopez
Juventus: Buffon; Caceres, Bonucci, Ogbonna; Lichtsteiner, Vidal (Pereyra 86), Marchisio, Pogba, Asamoah; Coman (Llorente 68); Tevez
Ref: Russo
Video Highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-cjs6wCe68
first!
coman highlights from yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrvAjnZ5YME
Okay i know they are highlights and they never tell the true story but having not seen the game and just watched that he looks distinctly average. Also what the heck is he thinking with the padawan hair braid?
he’s turned 18 a couple months back, he’d only played 37 minutes total in the top flight before this game, and he was being played as a cf even though he’s naturally a lw. despite that, he outshone tevez. created a lot more chances, his passing was better, his shooting was better too, and then he has that incredible pace. i feel bad for gio but coman deserves to start ahead of him.
Based on one good game? No. Especially not having just viewed those highlights, however having read all the good reviews in going to ignore the highlights because they just made him look awful.
giovinco is 27 and has yet to really prove himself here. coman is 18. he is faster, stronger, and has already shown good vision and creativity. this is turning into the same thing as last season where people said pogba didn’t deserve to start ahead of marchisio.
One game. Last season for a good while pogba didn’t deserve to start ahead of Marchisio.
in the middle of the season his form dipped and conte didn’t drop him for the same reason allegri shouldn’t drop coman. if you drop a youngster when he struggles, he won’t be able improve himself.
Well i personally dont feel thats a good way of dealing with players. Who ever is on form should play, age shouldnt be a factor at all and every player should understand that. The sole purpose at a big club is to win, not cater to the needs of young players.
totally agree with you
that’s how you develop players. a player won’t develop until he plays through the bad form. that’s why conte persisted with playing pogba throughout his poor form. no youngster ever plays well 100% of the time. lippi didn’t drop zidane when zidane was playing poorly.
Maybe hes a huge starwars fan!
You gotta be a padawan, if you want to be a Jedi.
He really did good man, for an 18year old talent who’s getting his Juve debut, he played like a veteran and he wasnt afraid to dribble defenders at all, only his finishing lacked
Milan cutting Lazio into pieces.
I know, damn. I know its just first game but I hope they keep it up (but not too much), we need them in Europe!
I agree. Although now it’s Lazio scoring and getting dangerous.
Alex own goal, looks like nobody wants to have an impressive debut in defence in that game
De Vrij not really lucky in his first game.
I didn’t watch enough to really pay attention to him.
Candreva failing alot today.. Missed a huge chance earlier and now missed a penalty.
cerci has moved to atletico madrid for 16mil+3mil in bonuses
Zaza scored and it was Berardi with the assist
Quite the nights for juventus youth it seems.. Leali apparently had a great game as did Rugani.
juventus have received two offers for giovinco from arsenal and torino. they might sell to give more space to coman.
nicola leali kept a clean sheet today, rugani played well but empoli lost thanks to a di natale brace, zaza scored a stunning goal from a berardi assist. boakye was unable to score while spinazzola and sorenson were unused subs
tpick is gonna love this. allan was tied MOM with di natale today. he had 6 tackles, 4 dribbles, won 100% of his aerial duels and had a 93% pass accuracy
same game, rugani had a 92% pass accuracy and two dribbles also lol. he got the highest rating on empoli
He should get used to that, same goes for leali at cesena
yea apparently leali did really well for cesena also
Dude is good. He is who we need if either Vidal or Pogba leave.
So is the mercato over now? or is there still time to buy Boriello?
we’ve got tomorrow
Cool 🙂 i love deadline day.
I hope he doesnt pull another rushed purchase. I prefer he call up a youngster instead of wasting money on a lord Bendnter type of deal.
Apparently Marotta is still searching for a prima punta, and thinks Juve has enough shaqiri-like players. Got this from twitter. And yes i know it doesn’t make any sense.
Well Chichis seems out of the picture. He may be headed to Real for a loan with an option to buy for 22 mill(crazy). If hes really looking for a PP, i dont get why we didnt just keep Immobile or bring back Gabbiandini
Exactly, this is the way 😛
https://youtu.be/2tjoGeoC6C0
The zaza goal
wooaw, great goal
Woowee, what a shot
That was one heck of a goal!
mazzari starts the season whining saying that torino didn’t deserve a penalty, inter should’ve had one, and vidic shouldn’t have been sent off. somethings never change lol
Well they do say start as you mean to go on and he sure is
Another great start for a Serie A season, Juve wins dominantly and Inter draws, gets a red card and already blame a referee. Plus, almost every single Juve youngster performed well/great
I see Milan finishing in the top 4 this season. I am very impress by Milan’s performance today. Inzaghi will start to show his true quality as coach. He certainly has the potential to be a Marcello Lippi for Milan.
I’m kinda curious to see how Torres will do under Inzaghi, if there is anyone who should be able to get a misfiring striker back on track, it’s Pipo
Conte’s lineup for Italy…
Goalkeepers
Buffon (Juventus), Padelli (Torino), Perin (Genoa), Sirigu (Paris Saint-Germain)
Defenders
Astori (Roma), Bonucci (Juventus), Chiellini (Juventus), Paletta (Parma), Ranocchia (Inter)
Midfielders
Candreva (Lazio), Darmian (Torino), De Rossi (Roma), De Sciglio (Milan), Florenzi (Roma), Giaccherini (Sunderland), Maggio (Napoli), Marchisio (Juventus), Parolo (Lazio), Pasqual (Fiorentina), Poli (Milan), Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)
Strikers
Destro (Roma), El Sharaawy (Milan), Giovinco (Juventus), Immobile (Borussia Dortmund), Osvaldo (Inter), Zaza (Sassuolo)
Osvaldo? 😛
Some of these picks are so weird.. Also is Rossi injured or just not picked? Can’t imagine him being left out if he’s fit again
He’s injured, however this is old news we discussed it all at length in the last thread!
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Rossi needs another knee surgery…
Falcao has moved to Manchester United on a loan deal.
Lol I don’t get why anyone would loan Falcao (especially for 12mill+wages for one meagre season), sure he’s great, but he will never stay after the loan, it’s like decided already he’s going to Madrid afterwards.
I don’t know, he isn’t getting any younger. And if he doesn’t do well at Man U then Real will think twice about getting an expensive injury prone striker.
Because theyre idiots.
and chichartio goes to madrid. you guys think any other player will come to us?
You’re not actually disappointed, right? I don’t understand why Madrid bought Hernandez. He’s not even close to their level. He’s not even good enough for us, let alone the CL winner. I am happy they took him before we could.
lol no way. just wondeing if anyone is still coming
Milan sold cristante to benfica for 6mil. Van ginkel is only there on loan and chelsea dont want to sell him. So much for planning lol
As Monaco is desperately trying to sell Joao moutinho, i know we don’t really need him but since Pirlo isn’t really getting younger i would gladly take him. This mercato would feel a lot better with either a new CM or winger
we can’t afford shaqiri. how would we be able to afford moutinho?
Don’t think he would cost more, as they bought him for 25 and ‘desperately’ usually means cheap. I know i’m playing fantasy football but it isn’t even that unrealistic.
I believe we have the money for Shaqiri, Bayern just doesn’t want to sell anymore. And Juve became cheap.
Has PSG sold Rabiot yet? I read we would get him for free next summer if he doesn’t leave this day
not yet. psg want 15mil+25% of any future sale. roma and arsenal will try again in january. if nothing happens then, we are favorites to get him on a free transfer in the summer
Thank you sir
thanks
I thought his agent aka mom had given the ok for a Roma move.
anyone watching this peace match?…its wicked!!!
Which match?
del piero, baggio, maradona, buffon and a bunch of other greats played in a peace match
Wtf Maradona? Can he still run?
lol he prbly stood around a lot and jogged when he had to
I don’t think we’ll be signing anyone today.
Nope. Coman proved to Allegri he can be that 5/6th forward. CB will probably come in Winter, maybe CM.
The ninja turtle must be sold for that to happen.
Hopefully he will be. Or Barzagli could leave. I could see him doing well for a few seasons in the MLS.
Barzagli would bully these technically incapable mls players. Itll be too easy for him.
so how do you guys rate our mercato? i’d give it a 4/10. pepe, padoin, motta still here. no wingers aside from coman were signed. squad wasn’t improved at all. also after hearing chelsea were offering salah on loan and we didn’t take it, like wtf? terrible terrible mercato.
Meh, i don’t want an anti-semitic in our team. We still got the strongest team in the league by far and we didn’t have the worst CL-draw. I’m not worried at all.
i dont really won’t to start a whole discussion here but there’s a difference between being anti-zionist and anti-semetic. abramovic is jewish and hasn’t had a problem with salah nor has salah had a problem with him
3. Bad mercato. the more i think about it, the more irritated i get. Morata is a crap deal, hate it and aside from a slight improvement in depth in a couple of areas, we made no improvements. We have one very young winger and thats it. He may blossom into something special, but im not expecting it to happen over night or this season.
Oh well, after Conte s departure, it was easy to predict that a poor mercato was amongst us.
We still have all the players who were expected to leave though.
Ok. We still didnt improve much at all. Maybe theyre planning something for next season, but until then ill rate this mercato as i see it.
including padoin, pepe, and motta
It aint a secret that Marotta can’t sell. And please man don’t ever name Pepe in the same list as those useless fucks…..
At least we kept Vidal, so id give it a 6/10 at the very least
Seems like everyone else in Italy did fairly well. Id give us a 6/10, maybe 5.5. Savic/Nastasic and Allan in the winter time and wed have a solid 8.
Winter can’t make this right. The management should have strengthen the squad for the CL. Group stages will be over by January, they should have bought good players for the first squad to show they care about it at all. If they fuck this up now, I will be disapointed even more.
i totally agree with you, why i care of having a solid 8 on winter time when i should got it now?
John basically said it all, we got nothing. I’m not surprised after Conte left. We got rid of Vucinic, so that makes it 3/10 instead of 1/10.
WHAT!?!? Mohamed Salah???? NOOOOO, I would have bought his shirt! That would have made my year, first Egyptian player at Juve. Dammit Marotta
3/10
9/10.. whats with the hate in Pepe and Padoin. I understand the hate on Motta 🙂
Everyone suddenly dislikes a hard working guy for some reason.
Revised Serie A predictions now that transfers are over:
Juve
Napoli
Roma
AC
Fiorentina
Inter
Udinese
Torino
Lazio
Parma
why Napoli ahead of Roma? honestly i don’t know or remember nothing about their transfer market this summer
If Napoli can pull it together, they have the 2nd best midfield after us and a great attack. They just need to work on defense.
they’ve sold behrami and dzemaili
Both of those players are terrible and were the worst 2 in their current midfield, which is why theyre gone.
behrami was great defensively
napoli’s defense is terrible. it’s gonna cost them. roma will finish above them for sure
if you dont agree, make your own predictions. thats the point of the post.
aish, he’s just sharing his opinion about your prediction
that’s what i think. Roma have the 2nd best midfield in my opinion
No way. Hamsik, Jorginho, Inler, Insigne, Mertens, De Guzman, Callejon and Michu is way better than Roma.
some of those i do not consider has midfielders
almost all of those are attacking mids/forwards
They play in Napolis midfield.
Michu?
He will probably be backup for Hamsik and Higuain. He played CAM last year.
ok sorry, when i was saying “midfield” like we have Vidal, Pirlo, Marchisio, Pogba…
it depends on what you classify as midfield. insigne, callejon, michu and mertens are for sure more attackers than mids
Not better than Bilbao…
Well that’s because Bilbao holds the ring. One ring to rule them all…
Juve
Roma
Napoli
AC
Fiorentina
Inter
Lazio
Udinese
Torino
Parma
Juventus
Ac Milan
Roma
no way napoli will finish second.
juve
roma
ac
napoli
inter
fiori
Crazy amount of money at the EPL..
Yeah, and I don’t really get how. I mean there’s 64 million people there, while in Italy theres 60. Are there that much more people who watches football than in Italy or what?
yes of course
The Asian viewers are their main money crop and English people are everywhere. They have a big influence to the people here in Asia.
Sponsorships, tv rights, full stadiums etc. The EPL is the best footballing BRAND in the world.
Danny Wellbeck for 16Mil Pounds.. crazy crazy EPL..
crazy why? because of the value or the move itself?
Yes my dear.. if Wellbeck cost that much, then Marchisio would cost 35Mil Pounds? 🙂 im not envying EPL, because of their money. Its more on making football more expensive.
i think 16mil is a fair price for him. i like Welbeck
It’s more like Madrid alone making the market this stupid.
We paid about the same figure for Morata, and to be honest Wellbeck is the more proven striker.
so torino have both molinaro and amauri. time to see all those molinaro to amauri crosses lol. i’ll bet you that molinaro will connect one cross to amauri and it will lead to a goal…against us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QWpuFAGwA8
Damn, Ruffier is actually a good goalie tho
alberto masi turns 22 today. a brilliant talent, wasted
He still has plenty of time to arrive
he’s still in serie b. it’d take something remarkable to bring him back. i hope he does it, but i doubt it
also, don’t expect too much spending next season guys. berardi and zaza will cost a total of 30mil to bring back.
We wont bring back Zaza until the Morata deal has expired, and we figure out if we are keeping him or Real is buying him back.
tbh, i think we’ll sell llorente next summer. he’ll be 30 but if he plays well this season we could still get around 15mil for him
Gio and Llorente will probably be gone before next season.
gio rejected two more bids today. he rejected one in the winter too. hopefully he doesn’t turn this into a iaquinta type thing where we have to freeze him out of the squad to get him to leave.
I thought we sold Zaza outright, do we have a buy back clause? and if so for how much?
15mill buyback clause
damn. That’s only a good deal if he scores 20+ goals
pretty steep, I don’t we’ll be seeing him unless he really shines a full season.
Well yeah we sold him for 7.5mill, so he was rated that much by both teams. In reality it would cost us 7.5mill if you look at it differently
Thats good enough for me tbh… well for the attack at least.
i am expecting signings and spending next season since Juve will have addidas and new sponsorship deals next season.
Conte called up Quagliarella in place of the injured Osvaldo. Good to see Quaglia back.
strikers are asked to do a lot under conte. quags knows conte’s system well
I think hes just trolling Balo now.
manchester united alone spent more than all the italian teams combined spent. wow.
Over a billion euro’s for the total Premier League… cash rules. I hope Pogba will renew till 2019, it will make me forget about the mercato. Two things bother me : One, not getting a marquee signing (winger). two, the fact that if Morata does really well we’ll lose him and Real will have paid 10 mill to mold him into a star.
I Coman blows up I hope we’ll move faster with an extension then with Pogba.
Our CL squad:
1. Buffon
2. Romulo
3. Chiellini
4. Caceres
5. Ogbonna
6. Pogba
7. Pepe
8. Marchisio
9. Morata
10. Tevez
11. Coman
12. Giovinco
14. Llorente
15. Barzagli
19. Bonucci
20. PADOIN
21. Pirlo
22. Asamoah
23. Vidal
26. Lichtsteiner
30. Storari
33. Evra
34. Rubinho
37. Pereyra
38. Matiello
39. Marrone
Haha matiello just to fill up the squad as the 4th home grown player.
Whew, well at least Padoin made it. I was worried our benches wouldnt be warm…
I heard he even got offered to customize his seat because he spends most of his time there.
yey! Pepe!!!
all of zaza’s goals last season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEC8QyZ5X8
transfers
It would have been complete if Shaquiri or Negredo is in the picture.
Bad transfer market but still have high hopes…
it aint bad.. we retained the original squad. we have a new solid manager. improved the depth of the squad. Pepe is back. Super Padoin is still in the team. The thing is, fans (Juve fans) expect too much on Marotta to buy expensive players. We can rate Marotta’s transfers in December and at the end of the season. On last season, Marotta did “OK”.
It was a weak transfer market
Pepe and padoin in the team arent really positives. And dojt forget, marco motta is still here too
im just sarcastic about Padoin.. but im serious on Pepe. 🙂
I disagree. The exciting transfers we had were Coman, who was free, and Morata, which will be a loss loss no matter what. If Morata plays well, Madrid buy him back, if Morata plays like shit, that’s 20m gone.
I have high hopes too, but that happens when you smoke.
Did you guys see the leaked nudes of numerous celebrities? It’s been huge this past three days. What has the world come to?
(but I’m not complaining :P)
nope
not yet.. are they real or photoshopped?
Mostly real. Some have been confirmed fake though.
Heh, I actually have seen all 235 photos. All 140 of Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence are real. There are alot of other women (Bar Rafaeli, Salena Gomez, Kirsten Dunst, Hope Solo) that a few are fake. Like one is photoshopped Avril Lavigne. But the large majority is real.
It was a hacker on 4chan that broke into their iCloud apple accounts. He has many more pictures and videos. He has posted his bitcoin address and asked for 100,000 USD in order to release the other leaks. It was a very messy situation that /b/ had to shut down, followed by reddit, and so on with the damage control.
Boobs.
hey guys, so i finally wrote an article on juventus. read it, take the poll, and tell me how it is.
https://juventusmatters.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/why-juventus-must-keep-paul-pogba-at-all-costs/
convincing and nice
thanks philip
Read it, voted and I liked reading it, you have the makings of a fine reporter in you
thanks. i’m going to be trying to write more this season
Looking forward to that!
good stuff mate,well done!
thanks
Guys, as a Juve fan please don’t forget Scirea. Take time to remember him
https://www.blackwhitereadallover.com/2009/9/3/2837138/juventus-legends-gaetano-scirea
I think that goes without saying man
Certainly do, what a tragedy that was
Allegri:No Falcao disappointment
Well you’re right there, would be the most expensive loan ever xD
yeah.. read that a lol.com … manu kids reiterating that Juve cant afford him.. Juve fans burned them on the Vidal story 🙂
Football Italia reporting this is the likely formation….
3-5-2:
Sirigu; Ranocchia, Bonucci, Astori; Candreva, Marchisio, De Rossi, Parolo, Giaccherini; Zaza, Immobile
god I hate Parolo
I agree. He’s excellent for 2nd string and running the shit out of a team thats about it.
I will enjoy seeing Astori-Bonucci-Ranocchia though. Zaza immobile up top too.
curious on Giaccherini though
I have faith in the flea.
i mean curious in a positive way
Immobileeee 1-0
Penalty!!!!
De Rossssssi 2-0
Conte is going to get us far in the Euros I’m sure.
Prandelli shouldve gotten us far at the WC. The players are quality, the coach just sucked.
he got italy to the euro final. he’s brilliant tactically, he just struggled in uniting the team and motivating them.
Italy got Italy into the Final. And it helped that Balotelli hulked out for his contractual 1 game per tournament.
LOL typical Balotelli.
brilliant tactically? are you kidding me?
he proved it at fiorentina and he showed it in glimpses at italy. he put too much faith in balo and he didn’t know how to motivate the players.
he was shit at fiorentina
he got fiorentina to the CL and into the knockout rounds and they would have knocked bayern out but the ref screwed them over. bayern were runner ups that season. i don’t like prandelli but to blame the WC just on him is wrong
We almost got kicked out of the group stages and barely won England. The only good game we played in that tournament was the Germany game and that’s simply because we’re always good against them. Losing 4-0 to a fading Spain team proved how lucky we were getting far.
England game was good too.
The final was mostly Prandellis fault