23 Apr 2014 - in: Europa League Juve name 23-man travelling party for Benfica Antonio Conte calls up 23 Bianconeri for the Europa League trip to Portugal Juve boss Antonio Conte has called up a 23-man Bianconeri group for the trip to face Benfica in Thursday 24 April’s Europa League semi-final first leg. The full list of players travelling to Lisbon is as follows: 1 Buffon 3 Chiellini 4 Caceres 5 Ogbonna 6 Pogba 7 Pepe 8 Marchisio 9 Vucinic 10 Tevez 12 Giovinco 13 Peluso 14 Llorente 15 Barzagli 18 Osvaldo 19 Bonucci 20 Padoin 21 Pirlo 22 Asamoah 23 Vidal 26 Lichtsteiner 30 Storari 33 Isla 34 Rubinho
I just read that Tevez-Vucinic may be the two up front. That pairing has not been productive at all the entire season.
Forza Juventus They are all drunk, and they think they are amazing one of the best teams in the world if you listen to the pro-Benfica media in Portugal they won the championship based on refs robbery of SCP
You know why we're wasting our corners? Because we don't have Llorente in there, somebody tall to be at the end of them.
Disappointing first half. Vucinic has been useless, Marchisio has been very quiet and Bonucci is... well, Bonucci.
Ogbonna is more athletic and has played better when starting over Bonucci. Vucinic instead of Llorente is just strange. Missing Vidal is unfortunate. They aren't playing badly, but offensively they don't have enough weapons on the field to threaten individually. That wouldn't be a problem if they could hold the ball up deep in Benfica's half which would allow more of Juve's players to participate. Vucinic has lost or been unable to hold up the ball when played into him on too many occasions. Losing the ball in that way has also sparked a few of Benfica's counters. Llorente needs to come on. What is Conte saving him for Sassuolo? At this point if Juve can't maintain their lead in Serie A given their games left then they don't deserve to win it. Why not just play the best lineup possible?