Please. If that was Matri or Vucinic you people would be going nuts. There is a double standard around here when it comes to those two.
Tevez has almost scored more goals in the league already in December than any of our strikers did all of last season. You can't seriously argue that our strike force last season was better than this season, can you?
Marcelo Zalayeta, there's a name i never thought i'd see again. Only one thing can be said about him, he was CLUTCH. Guy scored some seriously important goals for us
Probably will be his biggest claim to fame here. He scored against Madrid but unlike Amauri he didn't win.
Will never forget his goal away to Barca to send Juve through to the Semi's in the year they lost to Milan. Juve and Napoli both essentially eliminated in the 86th minute. Brutal. I can't believe Milan have found a way despite being severely outplayed in most of their games. How Ajax didn't beat them once is beyond me.
Wow. The stuff you are saying is so LOL-worthy. Seriously, take a deep breath and stop posting. Juve is out because of early bad form and bad luck the past two days. We were firing on all cylinders before today. Mother nature ********ed us. Tevez and Llorente is the best partnership we've had since Trez-Ale.
For those who suggested that Juve wouldn't deserve to go through with 7 pts, well Zenit go through with 6! They didn't even have to win their final game which they lost 4-1 to mighty Austria Vienna who end up finishing last! The CL can produce some crazy outcomes considering the group stage consists of only six games.
Don't wanna throw him under the bus, but Pogba was pretty horrible today too. His mistakes cost us the match. He was trying to be flashy which almost led to a goal, and then one of his passes was intercepted that led directly to a goal. Didn't do enough to win the ball back or hinder Gala's counterattack. Love him, but he needs to grow up and realize when its time to play.
Conditions be damned. In 6 CL group games we didn't keep a clean sheet. That's unacceptable. Conte better lift the scudetto and one other trophy whether its the coppa or europa league. Anything less than scudetto and one other trophy is not good enough. ********ing Mancini is a choke loser, and he beat us.
Not making any excuses and Juve are certainly out no matter what happens. Aside from that, UEFA should fine/punish Galatasaray ownership for the way their organization treated both sides of the field. To destroy one side of the field while the other is poor, but playable is unsportsmanlike. If UEFA do nothing then well played Gala!
I am a neutral fan in this (neither a Juve nor Galatasaray fan), but the fact that (A) the retractable roof wasn't closed even though it must have been obvious that some form of precipitation was coming to Istanbul on matchday and (B) the field was in such poor shape on particularly one side of the field should be investigated by UEFA. Yes, Juve could have helped themselves by not dropping points to Copenhagen. Still, as a fan of the sport, what happened in Istanbul was sickening.
Luca Vialli says that instead of bemoaning the exit, fans should be praising Juve's attacking intent Speaking to MediaSet the former Bianconeri Captain said; "Fans are angry for having conceded goal on the counterattack five minutes from the end? There is a contributory negligence but we cannot criticize too much a team that has an offensive mentality. We Italians have said for years that we want to go abroad and impose our football on others and Juve was trying to just that! “Pogba missed quite a simple pass and there is the first error, the second error was probably that Asamoah got into a difficult situation instead of staying back to help out the defence. "Then came the long ball to the towering Drogba and perhaps Chiellini initially tried to counter Drogba but then lost it and couldn’t help Bonucci. Sneijder scored a great goal, it seems fortuitous but he has aimed between the legs of Bonucci and put it in the only place where he could score."
Couldn't have said any better myself: Juventus - kings of the underachievers Juventus had six matches from which to earn enough points to qualify for the Champions League knockouts, not just the staccato affair against Galatasaray on matchday six in wintry Istanbul. A club of Juventus' stature and ambition should not be scrabbling around away from home in the mid-December frost looking for a point. They lost the right to compete in the knockouts by drawing with Copenhagen on the first matchday and tossing away a late lead against Gala in Turin. Yes, the snow churned up the field at the Turk Telekom Arena and made it unplayable but that is no excuse. "We were punished in an enormous way because we play football," coach Antonio Conte told Sky Italia in the aftermath of his side's elimination. "We were put into a brawl and they did better. On a normal pitch, I don't know how it would have ended. For certain, we could have done better in this competition." Juventus are not good enough, plain and simple. Conte's limited expectations have been evident since the beginning of the season - conceding that Juve would be fighting Gala for second place before a ball had been kicked and predicting that it would be a long time before any Italian team, his own included, won the Champions League title. Such defeatist attitude is totally at odds with how Conte the player - a warrior - comported himself. And now they are out. Conte's built an excellent team for Serie A and Beppe Marotta has added terrific quality in the transfer window, but the coach has been found out in the Champions League. The fact of the matter remains that Juve have won only one of their last eight Champions League matches and that was against a modest Copenhagen after being awarded two penalties. It's time to stop blaming Uefa and snow. It is time for introspection. If that means Conte walks, then so be it.
Was Pogba the one who let Drogba head the ball? Was Pogba the one of TWO defenders that let Sneijder get by him and then take a shot, THROUGH THE LEGS of one of the defenders? No? Oh that's right, he wasn't. Blaming Pogba for the goal is like blaming Buffon that we didn't score.
******** THAT!! He's a terrible coach, massively overrated and just last season got a team RELEGATED! He can ********ing stay at Everton. He's such a piece of crap he didn't even go down with the ship, he bailed at first chance. He can rot in England.
This is the 4th time i recall this season that Pogba has done something like that and has cost us dearly. Its time he learns his lesson and stops doing that. This is exactly why i say Pogba should play in a more offensive role and not next to Pirlo in defense. Thats Marchisio's spot.
Everyone shoulders a bit of the blame here. Marotta and management have failed to bring in the quality we need to be among the European elite. Conte at times looked has looked outmatched at this level. The attack, Tevez and Llorente included, failed to capitalize on chances. The defense has holes, and Bonucci IMHO proves time and again that he is a disaster waiting to happen. Even the MF, Marchisio and Pogba in particular, have been less than stellar. We have to improve a great deal. If that means Conte or a player needs to go, so be it.