Juventus V Udinese
19:45 UK
Serie A – Week 2 [13th September 2014] – Juventus Stadium
Juventus
Serie A’s defending champions will be missing a whole host of first team players as they welcome Toto Di Natale’s Udinese to Juve Stadium.
Arturo Vidal is set to miss the game and expected to be out of action for at least 10-15 days after he picked up a thigh injury whilst on international duty for Chile over the weekend.
Andrea Barzagli and Spanish striker Alvaro Morata are injury doubts as the pair are returning to full fitness while Andrea Pirlo is still recovering from a bruised hip he sustained during the Trofeo TIM tournament at the end of August.
Carlos Tevez was reported to have pulled up yesterday with a suspected muscular injury but the striker was quick to reassure fans via his twitter account :
“Thank you to everyone for being worried about me,” wrote Tevez on Twitter this evening.“I have no lesions and I am preparing for Saturday’s game.”
Gracias a todos por preocuparse. No tengo ninguna lesión y estoy preparado para el partido del sábado
— Carlitos Tevez (@carlitos3210) September 11, 2014
Giorgio Chiellini is still suspended which will likely result in Allegri using the same back three of Martin Caceres, Leonardo Bonucci and Angelo Ogbonna who worked so well against Chievo in Week 1.
With Vidal and Pirlo being the notable absentees in centre of pitch, new signing Roberto Pereyra is likely to make his full Juve debut against his former side. Paul Pogba and Claudio Marchisio will play alongside him in the 3 man central midfield.
With doubts over whether Tevez will start from the bench or feature at all in the game, Fernando Llorente will start alongside either Sebastian Giovinco or Kinglsey Coman.
Confirmed lineup
3-5-1-1 : Buffon; Caceres, Bonucci, Ogbonna; Lichtsteiner, Pereyra, Marchisio, Pogba, Evra; Tevez, Llorente
Injuries
Andrea Barzagli (Returning to fitness), Andrea Pirlo, Alvaro Morata (Returning to fitness), Arturo Vidal
Suspensions
Giorgio Chiellini
Udinese Scouting
After four years, Francesco Guidolin has left Udinese and there’s a new sheriff in town: former Inter coach Andrea Stramaccioni. They were really close to appointing Gigi Delneri but they ended up making a much more interesting choice. Allegri has never beaten Stramaccioni, who, moreover, was the first one to violate the Juventus Stadium fortress.
After the end of Guidolin’s realm, things have changed, but not so much. The tactic is the same (3-5-2), the cornerstones are the same (Di Natale didn’t retire) and the interesting youngsters who could break out this year are basically the same. Dusan Basta was the only mayor player that left (he wasn’t particularly impressive in the past season), but they already had Silvan Widmer in line to replace him on right flank.
They uncharacteristically added some veterans in order to solidify the roster: Panagiotis Kone, Cyril Thereau and Albert Riera. The first two are insurance policies if Bruno Fernandes and Luis Muriel won’t be as good as they are supposed to be in this season. Riera was acquired for nothing and could be useful if they eventually change the tactic.
Against Empoli, they weren’t particularly sharp, but they were cynical. The ageless Antonio Di Natale is in stellar form: he has already scored six goals in this season (four against Cremonese in Coppa Italia, a brace in the last Serie A match) and he’s of course their biggest threat. Differently from the previous years, they have decided to rely on his partnership with Luis Muriel, whose pace and dribbling skills could be a problem on the counter-attacking game.
They have a very deep squad and Strama has many options in the midfield. Against Empoli, the coach opted for a muscular trio: Badu-Allan-Guilherme and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them starting again. Kone and Bruno Fernandes represent the alternatives if they want at little more creativity and playmaking, while Pinzi could have a chance to play if they prefer having a veteran on the pitch in a tough road game.
Simone Scuffet is hurt and he’s out for a month due to an ankle sprain. He didn’t start against Empoli (he wasn’t injured) as Stramaccioni picked the Greek international Karnezis over him. The coach said that they have a project for Scuffet, but it still seems a bizarre decision. Probably they don’t want the youngster to get a big head after last year’s brilliant performances, but somebody who refuses to move to Atletico Madrid in order to finish high school in Italy sounds like a pretty humble guy, but that’s just me.
The left flank could be their week spot in Saturdays’s game. Both Gabriel Silva and Maurizio Domizzi are out due to muscular injuries and this means that the LCB-LWB combination will be completely new. Igor Bubnjic is the natural replacement of Domizzi: it will be only his 8th Serie A game. Heurtaux (watch out for his headers on the set pieces) and Danilo will complete the defense.
The situation is a little more complicated on the left flank: Giovanni Pasquale is the first option, but Strama has tried Ivan Piris consistently in that position in the recent practices. In any case, they are both shaky. Riera is in the mix too, but playing fullback in Turkey and doing it in Italy are two different things. A fancy option could be moving Widmer on this flank and using either Piris or Belmonte on the other.
In any case, Juventus will face a very ordinate squad that has been playing together for a long time, even if there’s a new coach at the helm. Udinese will sit back and try to strike with quick counters, which is the forte of both Muriel and Di Natale, as Stramaccioni admitted in today’s press conference.
Confirmed lineup
3-5-2 : Karnezis; Heurtaux, Danilo, Bubnjic; Widmer, Allan, Guilherme, Pinzi, Piris; Muriel, Di Natale.
Injured
Gabriel Silva, Simone Scuffet, Maurizio Domizzi
first !- Anyway, tough game, could be tricky with all those players out….BUT, looking at how week Marchisio did filling in for Pirlo, I;m not too worried. Only concern is really at the back – Nothing compares to having chiellini in the back 3.
Really interested to see how Pereyra does against his old side.
Without Vidal and Pirlo, it will be interesting to see how well the midfield does against the “poor mans Vidal,” Allan. He and Toto are the 2 players Im worried about. This will either be a goalfest for us, or a very close game that is slow and boring.
Toto v Ogbonna/Bonucci is worrying. Caceres has come on massively from his first season. Far more reliable.
I’m not sure how well Llorente and Coman will work, if he starts instead of Tevez.
Pogba is going to have a field day v that midfield/defence. He and Coman seem to have a great understanding already
He will score. He always scores. If we want to win this match we will have to score twice atleast because a Di Natale goal is a certainty.
Player ratings are back for the new season – Here’s week 1 – A bit late, i know – Will be on time next time : https://www.juvefc.com/week-1-chievo-v-juventus-player-ratings/
READY TO GET 10TH PLACE JUBEPOLI??????????
Marchisio will save the day, Dutch 😉
He always does 🙂
Question for everyone – How to you normally visit the site – Desktop/tablet/phone ?
My laptop, I don’t really browse on my phone
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Laptop and phone
laptop/Ipad
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desktop/phone. sometimes both at the same time lol.
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Allegri confirms: “Barzagli could be on the bench, Tevez felt discomfort but is OK, Evra will play, Pereyra could figure
Also – 21 years to the day since Ale took to the field for Juventus
Hoping for a great game and maybe the first Coman goal?! Who knows, would be great
At first i thought that match was against Feyenoord.
good luck to udinese and wish the worst for rube
Try not to lose to Sassuolo again, merda
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn’t take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It’s clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother’s mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
Your use of saying are dire, they are all incorect. Learn2english
Shut the fuck up.
Dont get angry, it’s what he wants.
Not angry, just giving him some good advice.
Even i didn’t say anything.
Exactly and Dutch is a rage monster
I can’t deny that 😀
You’re an angel Dutch, I hope you know that 😀
Obviously 😛
Udinese 4-0 Juve
Allegri sent off for being terrible.
FORZAINTERFORUM WILL TAKE OVER JUVEFC
*RUBEFC
Looks like we need the banhammer again Rav
Ready for Juve action finally!!!!
wait so what happened with that deleted comment?
what happened dude?
i’m not sure. i saw it said comment deleted and people were pretty upset
I deleted the comment from that interista – Is that the one you meant ?
oh… lol rav I was right…inter bastardi
He said something like Jubepoli. A dumbass troll, should have been ignored.
Should have, but no one ever does!!
what a ????……
same???…must of been a imposter…interista by the sound of it
some dude coming here, acting like a douche and claiming something about interforum taking over here, crazy shit
JUVE JUVE JUVE JUVE
Lineups and formations confirmed – Refresh and see above
bnou marzouk made his return from injury for the primavera and scored the winning goal in a 3-2 win over spezia
I want to see how we get on without pirlo and vidal
lol tiago scored against RM
Hes good, always has been. Idk why he never showed it at Juve. Formation maybe.
JUVE!!!!!!
Llorente murdered his hair…
Gooool
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL CARLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
What happened in that free kick and why did they let Bonucci take it lol. Also, great tackle by Marchisio to prevent the counter.
Bonucci didn’t take it at all, what the heck is this from a free kick lol.
i need a link please!
dutch commentary though
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thank you, it looks beautiful. I want some of that frog tape from the commercial
Yeah it’s good quality stream, I like that. Hahah xD
Lol. How do you like dutch commercials :p
theyre good, dude, I like the doggy auto track one too. its cute. I’m picking up words here and there. I’ll be fluent in Dutch by the time we lift the scudetto lol.
Lol yeah that dog is pretty critic. He checks things humans don’t even check. I’ve just seen it a zillion times already 🙁
Succes. Dan gaan wij een gesprek in het nederlands houden. Ik heb er nu al zin in! Je zal dit alleen tot het einde van het seizoen niet kunnen lezen xD
I’m going to hold you on that :p
good match so far.
I missed a good bunch of the first half, but so far pereyra is impressive. I thought he was Vidal this whole time.
I’d have thought that if i didn’t know better. He looks alot like him from up above.
haha.. me too.. he looks just like him
Except for shooting yeah, pretty good
Pereyra covers so much ground that for a bit I thought he and Vidal were playing lol.
You should twitter this to him, he’ll feel honoured.
Lol Tweet?
Oops yeah. I don’t use twitter.
He really does. I would love to see him and Vidal play together
Where is Coman?
I hope he gets subbed in around the 60th minute, for Tevez maybe, no need to take more risks with CL match so close
I wonder if Coman will play in CL or will it just be Tevez and Llorente.
Ogbonna has looked pretty solid lately… Maybe there’s a place for him after all
For as long as Chiellini is out, yes.
Doing well indeed! Not too shaky
I have to give it to Ogbonna today, and Caceres is doing an awesome job as well.
Was that Vidal’s girlfriend or just a hot girl sitting next to him?
fit as!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marchisiooooooooo che golazoooo!!
CLAUDIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HELL YEAH
Now that was a good goal
Padoin… really!!
Padoin time! Allegri proves it’s not just Conte.
How is Padoin getting game time yet again, is he bribing the whole juve staff or something?
My theory is that he is an evil wizard who hypnotizes the coach in letting him play a fair amount of minutes per season. What you said it possible too :p
I think hes an elf. Everybody loves elves and thats probably how he gets minutes
Everyone does, but does Allegri? I’ve come to notice that he isn’t like most people.
Morata coming on!
Yeah Morata time, for as long as it is
We look strong….real strong!…early days,but strong.
He almost scored lol.
Morata gol ale
JUVE…UN STORIA DI GRANDE AMORE
Good game all around… minus padoin. Allegri needs to make subs faster, Coman and Morata shouldve come on sooner.
I agree,coman should of got longer,morata will make HIGUAIN a has been….he will smash it for us
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