Juventus 4-0 Hellas Verona
Scorers: Pogba 3 (J), Tevez 7, 74 (J), Pereyra 66 (J)
Serie A – Week 18 [Sunday, 18th January – 19:45 GMT] – Juventus Stadium
Everything is going as planned. Days after a 6-1 throttling of Verona in the Coppa Italia, Juventus again beat Verona. This time the home team won 4-0. As unfortunate as it was for Verona to have to play two straight games in Juventus Stadium, Juve took advantage of it and scored 10 games in two matches. Even better, today Juve took the lead very early and were able to cruise throughout the rest of the match.
Literally two minutes into the game Paul Pogba scored with a traditional “Pogboom” blast from outside of Verona’s 18 yard box. Five minutes later, Carlos Tevez scored a goal, which was assisted by Pogba. Pogba did a nice little move where he spun and passed to Tevez with his first touch, Tevez of course finished the chance.
To put this into perspective, the game hadn’t even begun airing in the United States. The game was delayed ten minutes for a Barcelona game, and in that ten minutes the game was decided. Thank the Old Lady for internet streams, I suppose. Regardless, it was a perfect start for Juventus.
From there Juventus were completely in control. There weren’t really any dangerous Verona chances either. At the 17th minute, a poor Andrea Pirlo pass did end up at sparking a Verona counter, but nothing came of it. Luca Toni’s finish ending up skating just past Gigi Buffon and the goal, wide right.
Two Juve players seemed to be constantly threatening to score today but ultimately came up short: Claudio Marchisio and Alvaro Morata. Both players had fine games, but neither scored despite having a decent of opportunities to do so. Morata did very well playing as a target man, but at certain times he seemed more willing to pass to Tevez than to take a shot.
For example, in the 57th minute he made a fantastic run into Verona’s 18 yard box, heading towards the goal at a dangerous diagonal angle. It seemed natural for him to try and finish the chance, but he forced a strong cross to Tevez. Tevez headed the ball, but it was an awkward cross and the header went wide. Morata was phenomenal today at everything but finishing, which was rather odd as he’s not known for being a poor finisher, or afraid to shoot.
Minutes later Roberto Pereyra scored Juve’s third goal. This was notable because it was both Pereyra’s first Serie A goal of the season and it was assisted by a BEAUTIFUL through ball from Giorgio Chiellini. I usually complain about Chiellini’s attacking efforts, but it seems he has been taking passing lessons from Andrea Pirlo.
Nine minutes later and Carlos Tevez scored another goal to finish up Juve’s scoring. Though nobody told that to Sebastian Giovinco, who came on for Tevez a bit later. Giovinco took a shot with his first touch of the game and forced a save from quite a distance. That was all though. The future Toronto FC man wasn’t able to repeat his heroics from the Coppa game versus Verona.
It was a fine result against a mediocre Serie A side. Still, you win the Scudetto against the provinciale, and now Juventus are five points ahead of Roma. Roma drew Palermo yesterday, and it looks like Juventus could be ready to widen that gap through the month of February. The two sides meet at the beginning of March, in what will likely be the last chance for the Scudetto race to remain close.
Statistics:
Man of the Match: Carlos Tevez
Flop of the Match: N/A
Fouls: 11
Corners: 6
Pass Accuracy: 89%
Shots on Target: 8
Total Shots: 18
Ball Possession: 62%
Formation: 4-3-1-2
Formation:
Lineups:
Juventus: Buffon; Caceres, Bonucci, Chiellini, Evra; Marchisio (Padoin 77), Pirlo, Pogba; Pereyra (Pepe 75); Tevez (Giovinco 83), Morata
Verona: Rafael; Martic, Marques, Marquez, Rodriguez; Brivio, Sala (Saviola 62), Tachtsidis (Hallfredsson 75), Christodoulopoulos (Valoti 86); Greco; Toni
Ref: Irrati
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really good performance but i’m really disappointed coman didn’t come on. i mean pepe, padoin and gio over coman? you gotta be kidding me. i love pepe but realistically, a 31 year old winger who probably won’t be here next season due to his expiring contract should not be making appearances at the expense of an 18 year old prodigy. padoin is a reliable squad player who has proven his worth but that’s all he is. a squad player. gio is leaving us this summer on a free. it’s not like we need good performances from him so we can get good money for him. this is the type of stuff that discouraged pogba at man utd and caused him to look for a move. hopefully, the same doesn’t happen to coman.
Gio really shouldnt have seen the pitch. Hes irrelevant to our team now…
Speaking of Gio, now that hes going to mls, im sure the media are gonna hype him up… well ill help with that. Im gonna brainwash so many people into thinking his dribbling as good or almost as good as Messis.
To what point? xD
Just for fun… and that could, in return, help Juve out.
Just asking dude 😛 How so help Juve?
Because I will be associating Juve with Mls s biggest stars :p
What a great honour 😛
start selling seba’s #1 jerseys lol
I think he can be a Messi type player in MLS. He won’t score 50 goals, but I think he can dazzle for sure .. It’s the perfect opportunity for him, he’s always wanted the spot light, and now he’ll get it here (In MLS terms of course) And I think he instantly becomes the best player in MLS. I’m not all that big on this 2nd tier league at all, but BMO Field is a 10 minute walk to my place, I’d love to welcome him at the airport when he comes… Lol. It’s a league that now boasts the likes of David Villa, Sebastian Giovinco, Steven Gerard, Kaka so I think he’ll be motivated to perform, plus there’s 800,000 italians here, and lots of Juve fans to boot.
Really disappointing, none of those 3 should have played at all and especially not at Coman’s expense
Ciao Seba https://www.juvefc.com/official-sebastian-giovinco-join-toronto-fc/
It’s not often that I agree with articles on goal.com but this one about Gio certainly has an edge to it, while it is written harsh the core of it is true imo https://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2015/01/20/8135812/selling-your-soul-for-6m-giovincos-canadian-cop-out-sends?ICID=HP_BN_3
So, wanna start this all over again? 😛
Hahah I’m not a goal fan or anything, I just browse it once in a while because the articles are always overdramatical and the reactions are even better.
It’s harsh, too harsh but you just can’t deny that the core( leaving to MLS at age 27 is killing your career) is true. The rest is dramatical bullshit.
I don’t know what Gio intends to prove at the MLS, he’ll just fade away from the highest levels of football. No CL or EL and I’m pretty sure he just gave up his chances to play for the Azzurri as well. Like Criscito, he might be a really good player in the league he’s in, but that doesn’t get you a spot for Italy
No CL: Didn’t everyone agree, that he is not good enough for CL level football? I mean if he can’t start for Juve, which CL contendant could play him in his first team?
No EL: Nobody really cares about EL. Small teams compete with 2 Portugese teams. Boo…
I’m not saying the MLS is a top place to go, but I don’t think he made a bad decision. IF he keeps working there as he did here, he made himself a legend he was always promised to become.
First European “star” player who signs to MLS in his prime: Gio. Literally every MLS fan will know him.
Also, if anyone offered me to do the same job I did my whole life for 4 times the money I earn, and they were from a nice, safe (not middle east), developed place like Toronto, I would not even think twice.
That’s not the point, he isn’t good enough, but how can you seriously say you want to prove you’re a great player by not even playing top level? I mean c’mon, what is MLS besides a pensioner league? I can’t name 10 decent players in the MLS who aren’t European havebeens and I’m pretty familiar with football. No MLS expert but that’s not necessary either.
Cl or EL is still exponentially higher level than MLS. I watch EL any day over any match in the MLS. Heck I’d rather watch the shitty Belgian league over MLS.
And please, Gio’s agent is spouting the same crap, seeing Gio as a pioneer is BS, he’s hardlly known outside of Italy, moving to the States isn’t going to make him better. He just takes the money, as if he cares about MLS.
Those guys know shit about football, just listen to what commentators say too, they know jack shit about the sport. “Youngster Storari” is the first thing that comes back to my mind.
And I already agreed on the money side of it, I’d do it too. From benchwarmer to shining star for 4 times as much money? Yes please.
TL; DR You can’t prove yourself to be a top level player if you go to MLS. It’s sportive suicide. Yes he gets a truckload of money and gets to be a star, but in reality he just disapppears now
Well maybe he doesn’t want to prove himself anymore. Maybe he feels that when he tried he got booed by his own fans.
Maybe he wants Gerrard’s shirt and he realized this is the only way for him to get it. (I’M SORRY)
On a serious note, he obviously won’t be called up for the Azzuri, but I don’t think he would be needed anyway. There’s plenty of talent for a winger / attacking midfielder, he is replaceable.
Also, I witnessed the same thing with Dzsudzsák. After 3 outstanding years at PSV he signed for fucking Anzhi, for 2 truckloads of money. In his case, you couldn’t even say at least he is moving to a ‘better’ place, because he wasn’t. He has disapeared for everyone who doesn’t follow the russian league simply because nobody cares about the russian league. On the contrary, if Gio just does a useless rabona in the MLS, he will be all over the internet, TV, and so on..
What kind of footballer doesn’t want to prove himself xD doesn’t really match with the hardworking guy you described before eh 😛
Booed by his own fans was lamentable, but he did just suck balls too. If I remember right the reason was some comments by his agent about Juve though.
Lol that might be it, it’s all Gerrard’s fault! It’s not a big loss for the Azzurri but look at it from Gio’s side, he’s throwing it all away ‘to become a pioneer in the MLS’, right?
Gio is going to become the same as Dzsudzsak, whatever how successful he might become in the MLS. Nobody cares about MLS either but it’s probably a more open league than the russian one.
I honestly don’t know why Gio went to the MLS, all I say is, it could be worse.
Even if he choose Toronto only for the money (obviously it did help), thinking about taking it easy and retirement, he still earned a “good luck Gio” from me instead of a “fuck off Gio” for all he has shown at Juve.
Oh well I might have been harsh, I’m just gutted about this move. He had some good moments here, some bad ones too. All in all, he didn’t become what we hoped for. Heir to Del Piero my ass.
Btw we should ask for money or something to keep this discussion going xD filling a book about Gio here the last few days
My thoughts exactly. Although I was promised £100,000 for a first post, I don’t think I can ask for more.
Sounds like a good moment to sue somebody, right 😛
Well, I’m patiently waiting for the coordinates, so not yet.
Pirlo chose his CL Dream team : https://www.juvefc.com/andrea-pirlos-champions-league-dream-team/
another gift for roma. this team REALLY needs to stop complaining about referring controversies.
Garcia is a dipshit. Now he doesn’t want to talk about the refereeing decisions .. What a douchebag that guy is.
Garcia, you goddamn hypocrite, now he doesn’t want to talk about referees and bad decisions eh!