Juventus Match Hub 2016-17

Matchday 1 : Juventus Vs Fiorentina, Juventus stadium, 20th August(today), 20.45 CET

Expected lineups :

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can't wait !

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Official lineup

Juventus (3-5-2): Buffon; Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini; Dani Alves, Khedira, Lemina, Asamoah, Alex Sandro; Dybala, Mandzukic

Alves-Sandro pair OMG

Did they have a chance on goal? Lol...

I see no reason why Allegri shouldn't start Alves-Sandro in most games. We look so damn threatening on the flanks now.

S wrote:I see no reason why Allegri shouldn't start Alves-Sandro in most games. We look so damn threatening on the flanks now.

Аlves still needs time to adapt its pretty obvious. Asamoah is best on the field !

Lemina is playing really really bad

Alves needs to understand Juve better. He is trying too many risky plays too often. His quality is obvious, he just needs to get used to the club.

Sandro, Mandzukic, Dybala, Khedira and the defense are amazing.

Asamoah is great. Lemina is no regista, he is at least able to keep it simple (unlike Hernanes) but the gap between him and Marchisio or Pjanic in that position is huge.

Alves is used to Brazilian Samba with Barca. Give him a few games to get used to Serie A...

We need a sub to change things up. They are not threatening at all. I would take out Lemina for Pjaca or Hernanes.

Or Higuain for whoever.

Looks like "slim" Higuain just entered the game. He must be on a low carb diet as he looks the same as last year.

HIGUAIN, HIGUAIN!!!!!!!

Higuain, Khedira

*bleep* Hernanes man... He almost cost us the game but he saved his ass by doing that mistake with the ball... He is doing the same mistake over and over again.

Anyways, FORZA JUVE... HIGUAIN IS BACK AND I WANT TO KNOW HIS DIET.

Lemina was playing classic DM (destroyer) so he had a great game especially in the second half he saved a goal when Fio countered with Bernadeschi.

Asamoah MoM

Higuain - Seems like he'll force me to change my opinion about him, hope I am right.

What a game from Asamoah and Dani Alves in the first half particularly was quite excellent

I think it's easy to see Juventus is not at 100% fitness, as the game went on it really showed

In any case, we should have buried 2-3 in the first half and been done with it

Khedira missed a sitter, scored an incredible goal and bottled another that ended up as Higuain's winner

You can feel how we missed Pjanic today, everything went through the wings to the point that it became a bit predictable. With a player like Pjanic in the middle, it opens up all sorts of space

Entire midfield played great today.

It's just that our tactics went a bit wrong today in the 2nd half. We gave them too much of the ball in the 2nd half and that made them grow into the game.

Lemina didn't create enough. He was clearly the worst out of the three, not that he was bad, but Asamoah and Khedira were better.

He made himself available which is good, and he of course can make the simple pass. But he wasn't good in front of the defense. Bonucci bypassed him a lot, and the ball went to Asamoah and the wing backs just as much.

Bench material. Don't rate Lemina enough to be a starter for us, I just don't trust him. Having said that he had an overall good game but he doesn't have enough to offer imo.

I don't like Lemina in the regista role personally, he is not tactically there yet.

With that being said, he brings some great physicality, he competes and he is technically very sound, he had a solid but unspectacular game.

He is a good prospect for mezzala but not in the middle. He needs license to run and dribble and make mistakes, you need a lot more vision and precision at regista. That's why we ended up relying so much on the wing backs

rincon wrote:He is a good prospect for mezzala but not in the middle. He needs license to run and dribble and make mistakes, you need a lot more vision and precision at regista. That's why we ended up relying so much on the wing backs

You need immense intelligence too to really succeed as a regista.

I look at players like Chiellini and they have that intelligence, I wish MOGGI's cloning machine worked so we could have 10 Chiellini's and 1 Buffon out there. Watching Chiellini with and without the ball is something to see, probably one of the smartest players on our team.

Then you have players like Dani Alves who are so technically perfect they can play any position on the field.

Speaking of intelligence, HERNANES really grabbed the game by the balls when he came on, almost done more for Fiorentina in 10 seconds than Illicic had in an hour.

It's simple