2-0 is the most dangerous score in football. Just kidding, that old adage probably doesn’t apply here. I mean, Trabzonspor are certainly capable of shocking Juventus, but seeing as how one goal for Juventus basically clinches the whole tie (since Trab did not score any away goals) I doubt that Trabzonspor have the quality to beat Juventus by a 3-0 or 4-1 scoreline. Though there are few things as dangerous as a dog backed into a corner.
Juventus
The big news for Juventus heading into this game is the injury to Kwadwo Asamoah. Asa is definitely out of the Trabzonspor match (although he would have likely been on the bench) and his status for the game against A.C. Milan is still up in the air. Aside from that, there are no new injuries. However you can expect to see a very similar line up to the one you saw last week.
The three centerbacks are being reported as Leo Bonucci, Martin Caceres, and, Angelo Ogbonna. All three played last week and had fine performances, especially as they got very little support from the wide defenders. You can expect that to happen again as both Mauricio Isla and Federico Peluso are expected to start. Isla wasn’t so bad last week, and Conte doesn’t have many options at LWB with Asamoah out and Paolo De Ceglie in Genoa. I still miss you, DJ Paolo.
The midfield has one expected change, Andrea Pirlo will be rested while Arturo Vidal will start. I quite like this decision for two reasons – the first and most obvious reason being that there is no reason not to rest Pirlo with the Milan game coming. Furthermore I quite liked seeing Claudio Marchisio in the regista role, so I am hoping he slots into that role tomorrow. It’s a nice luxury knowing that, barring more than one injury, your starting midfield is going to be pretty excellent regardless of the specific players starting.
Per usual the most interesting decisions come from the strikers. Pablo Osvaldo will start which is expected, and he will be partnered by Sebastian Giovinco. I guess this really is the best time to start Giovinco in a match, plus it gives Conte a chance to see the Giovinco-Osvaldo partnership for a decent amount of time. Hopefully that relationship will be a fruitful one.
Trabzonspor
Not much has changed for the Turks since last week. Souleymane Bamba and Flourent Malouda are still out with injuries, although they did record a 2-1 victory over Kayserispor over the weekend. I have no doubt that this is a result of the “Juventus Effect” and the Old Lady’s class and skill rubbed off on their Turkish opponents.
I don’t know if Trabzonspor will abandon their trusted 4-1-4-1 formation but they are almost surely going to have to try and attack Juventus throughout the 90 minutes. Coincidentally, neither of the two weekend goal scorers are expected to start. However, some have said that Paulo Henrique, their Brazilian striker, may start to help them attack throughout the match.
Trabzonspor have a huge task ahead of them, they need to hope their “12th man” can make a difference and they need to find a way to complete a task only Fiorentina have done this season: score three or more goals against Juve in one match.
Bottom Line
I hate being overconfident in situations like this, because if something goes wrong I look like a complete asshole. That said, I can’t see how Juventus don’t win by a comfortable margin especially if Trab are constantly on the attack and thus leading themselves vulnerable in defense. Let’s say 3-1 for Juventus.
first!
enjoy your good fortunes as they are only temporary!
Lol
Paolo Rossi says Kroos should be a must for us this summer. Tbh, I havent seen much of kroos and the price being rumored for him is 15-20mil which isnt bad. Problem is he wants to double his 4mil wages
yea, the wage is going to be a problem, wonderful player, would be good for us if Pogba leaves
Off topic, just saw the schalke-madrid game and just have to say how disappointed I still am about Juve not qualifying for the knockout stages of the cl. Madrid owned every team that they played against, except Juve. Imo Juve were maybe not better but still competing with real when they played with a man less. Still, unbelievable. Every year I think and hope Juve will get that cl title. Well, hoping for next year already, because frankly I don’t care that much about this europa league. And conte, please start playing a 4-3-3 because this 3-5-2 formation will never work in the cl.
We have only 1 winger and he’s been injured for 2 years. Wingers have to be a priority this summer or we will struggle in the CL again
C’mon, tevez on the right Llorente upfront and left, well i’m not sure, but conte can figure that out and Juve were struggling more with the 3-5-2 against copenhagen than with the 4-3-3 against madrid
tevez did play on the left against madrid and both times he was ineffective.
Give him a couple of games..
i dont think itll work. Tevez has also featured on the wings with argentina to pamper with Ms Messi’s desire to be at the center of everything, but failed to do anything worth mentioning. Tevez is at his best when hes allowed to roam freely. playing him on the wings will restrict him from doing so.
Tevez has never been effective as a winger for argentina, man city, or man utd
We have Gio, he can play as a winger, but yes we really should get 2 wingers for next season. i know that you guys don’t like him but i would be happy if we can get Nani (in good form of course)
seba is too inconsistent and gets muscled off the ball too easily. nani is terrible. selfish and also extremely inconsistent. also, he never tracks back and dives like crazy.
and Nani is just not that great. he had 1 good season and after that hes just been average.
one good season?! you really didnt paid attention to his carrer
I agree with the others, he simply doesn’t worth whatever ManU is trying to get for him. I don’t want him for anything above 12 millions.
how much is ManU asking for him? 12mil is too low, but i guess anything between 20mil and 27mil is fair, just because he’s been in a low form recently.
I think I remembered incorrectly, I thought they mentioned something above 20. That would be ridiculous. Daily Mail wrote they ask for £12m. I meant my 12 in euros, lol.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2549364/United-stuck-want-away-Nani-dont-lower-12m-asking-price-Manchester-United-transfer-news.html
i meant mine in euros too lol
terrible?! 2 years ago he was one of my fav wingers, the injury screwed him but i think he’s able to get back to top form. yea he dives a lil bit, but Conte can mold (i think tha’ts the word) him.
he have a great shot, he’s super fast and a good dribler.
It’s time to face the facts, heck, it was time a while ago. Giovinco is not Juve quality. He will never be, and he will never get a lot of playing time here.
he couldve been 🙁
If we had kept him when he was first here I think it would have been a different story.
The team lazio is playing has a player named Michel Platini lol
This match is on espn3!!!
OMG ISLA HOW UNLUCKY
mamma mia Marchisio.
looks like hie’s gonna have a great game, even giovinco and isla
We’re destroying them
plus, the lads are playing some amazing football
ARTUROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
VIDAAAAAAAAAL
PABLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OSVALDO
OSVALDOOOOOOOOO <3
Marchisio s chipped pass <3
hahahahahha giovinco with that backheel :3
hahahhhaha now even padoin is playing, how much better can it get?
only 3 matches to go!! just to let y’all know that if Juventus and Benfica win and Valencia win or draw tonight i’ll win the lottery ahahah
you go girl!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Gambling on football matches…has Phillip been influencing you? Hahaha
Stealing this from Marc*
Feel the rhythm feel the rhyme
Get on up its Padoin Time!!!
No. That song is reserved for 4 black men, not a lame Italian football player.
Pogba, Asamoah, Balotelli and Seedorf?
Do you want to kiss their lucky egg? haha
Pogba you dead mon?
How are we playing? Who scored the first goal? Just came back home, just in time to see Osvaldo head the 0-2 in.
Padoin scored both with his head. he just looks like osvaldo.
Not buying it, sorry 😛
First was from Vidal 😛
Thanks. Was it a good goal?
he tapped in the rebound from a save on giovinco, who is linkin up exceptionally well with pabos
I’m happy to hear Gio is doing well with Pabos. They are like the opposite of eachother. Little – Huge, Childish face – manly face.
Atomic ant and khal drogo
I actually also only just started watching, but I read the comments and I use livescore.com 😛
We hold them down and do whatever we want basically.
i think Vidal scored the first(my stream died at the moment)
What a pass to Vidal
Gio is playing brilliantly so far
Good. He just said in the media the other day he wasn’t happy with his playing time and wanted to prove more to Conte.
If he plays this way every game there’s no reason he can’t push for a starting shirt
Read that too, it’s good he’s making an impact then. I don’t want him to leave just yet, he should stay and Quags + Vucinic should be leaving next season
but cant convert all the chances
How about shoot the damn ball lol
they’re just making trab their bitch out there, if they play like this every game, OH MY GOD
If we played like this every match, Chelsea would’ve been humiliated yesterday and Copenhagen and Galatasaray would still be healing from mental damage
hhahahhahahha if only xD
We’d score a treble of trebles then :p
So, Napoli beat Swansea, Lazio is out at the hands of Ludogorets (wtf), Juve will advance too and Fiorentina is also on track to advance. Good day for Serie A coefficient, only Lazio disappointed
Gio is looking very composed today.
question:
has Pogba been this anonymous lately? hes looking very shaky and unsure of his self
He isn’t having the best period, but today I think he’s just being saved to play Milan, since we’re up 4-0 anyway
i think Marchisio deserves the start ahead of him tho. Principino has been shining.
They will both play, Vidal is suspended :p
oops i forgot
Do agree with you though, atm marchisio should be starting above him
Vidal is suspended they’ll both be playing
I wish we had scored in the 61st minute
Why then? 😛
Because 61 is their number if i’m right. Thats when they started the firework last time and now they were partying again.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that xD No fireworks this time
Because now it’s their own stadium. Wouldn’t wanna harm that stadium, which is 10000 times uglier than ours….
Yup. But it sure aint vandalism :p
Nice going Ogbonna.. That guy is lucky to still be alive
Pirlo on for Marchisio
OMG DID PADOIN JUST SHOOT ON GOAL, AND ALMOST SCORE? or do my eyes decieve me?
Next level troll, Padoin almost scoring xD
Did.. did… did Padoin just almost score?!?!?!?
He hit that ball so hard it went through the goalkeeper
HAHAHAHAHHAHA PELUSO WHAT A FAIL
How do you not score that 🙁
Giovinco took a free kick from Pirlo. He’s getting a status 😀 I wish he’d score one, he deserves it.
His free kicks are pretty good, last season he also made some fine shots
last season he scored against milan from a free kick
Yeah, pretty sweet goal that was
Yeah they are and tbh i was thinking this is more a Giovinco spot. Pirlo likes them more from a bigger distance. He made some great free kicks at Parma too.
So next round EL games are going to look like this
AZ Alkmaar – Anzhi
Ludogorets – Valencia
Porto – Napoli (what a game this will be!)
Lyon – Viktoria Plzen
Sevilla – Betis
Tottenham – Benfica
Basel – Salzburg
JUVENTUS – Fiorentina
Should give some good games, even if it isn’t CL
It’s such a shame we have to play Fiorentina so early
Yeah that’s too bad, I wanted some good matches for Serie A, but we’ll lose another Italian team so early 🙁 Lets hope Napoli can beat Porto
Napoli will crush Porto
I hope so, would be a great for Serie A. Though I would rather play another team in a possible final than Napoli 😛
AZ
Valencia
Napoli
Lyon
Sevilla
Benfica
Salzburg
Juve
As long as Juve and Napoli win I’m satisfied 😛
No love for us, your wonderful neighbours? :/
‘There’s two things I can’t stand, those who are intolerant of others culture… And the Dutch’
how about the greek?
That goes without saying, they don’t even exsist to me
I hoped for Ajax, does that count too? 😛
It’s AZ – Anzhi.
thats what it says?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i got right every CL and EL match, $$$$$$$$$
so should i make pay pal account so you could send me some of your earnings? :p
no, give me the Juve pay pal account so we can sign some top winger for next season ahah
good idea! but not Nani jk(kinda) :p
ahaha, no, one better (i’m so happy)
todays game makes me want a 4-5-1 even more. Marchisio bossed the game today. he probably is the most intelligent passer in our team. he knows when to hold the ball, how long he should hold the ball, when to take on a man, when to make a simple pass and when to make a beautifully flamboyant pass etc. and i dont know if it was just a coincidence, but when he came off the pitch we werent controlling the match as calmly as we were prior to his sub.
if he were to partner Pirlo in the center in a 4-5-1, we d destroy. they couldnt possibly mark out both Pirlo and Marchisio.
4-2-3-1
Pogba-Pirlo
Vidal-Tevez-Marchisio
Llorente
now that would be nice to see.
i was thinking switch Marchisio with Pogba and thatll be magic… especially considering Marchisios form as a holding midfielder or regista.
Pogba is better as a defensive mid though, and his presence in the middle causes a lot of problems for people. Marchisio should play further up since there is only 1 forward, and he does well to get into space and get open, as well as making good attacking runs.