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Sassuolo V Juventus 
19:45 UK
Serie A – Week 7 [18th October 2014] – Stadio Città del Tricolore
Juventus Preview
The international break was entirely uneventful for Juventus. The drama continued from the victory versus Roma, and Arutro Vidal’s knee was again a topic of concern and rumor. So, nothing has changed.
Unfortunately, the time during the break wasn’t long enough to see out a few Juventus injuries. Andrea Barzagli, struggling with injuries for months, is still out. Martin Caceres, his replacement, is out for the rest of the month at least. Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Angelo Ogbonna will start in Caceres’ place. Leo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini should join him, and Gigi Buffon will be in goal as always.
Reportedly we will see Stephan Lichsteiner and Patrice Evra out wide. I have wondered in the past here what Asamoah’s status in the LWB pecking order was. As Asamoah played 90 minutes versus Roma, our greatest adversary, and Evra is starting against Sassuolo – though he has played more overall – I believe Asamoah is the preferred LWB in general, but Allegri may be trying to preserve him so he can also substitute in central midfield at times. Just speculation, but it’s been something I have thinking about.
In the midfield we see what resembles the traditional starting three, with one catch: in place of Arturo Vidal we will see Arturo Vidal lookalike/playalike Roberto Pereyra. GdS is also saying that Andrea Pirlo will start along with Paul Pogba, so Claudio Marchisio is getting a rest.
Finally, up top we will probably see Fernando Llorente and Carlos Tevez. Tevez has been phenomenal this season, just as he was last season, but Llorente has been in quite poor form. It’s surprising to see Llorente starting over Morata due to ‘Nando’s poor form and Sassuolo’s general stature. Regardless, we’ll see if Llorente can break out of his funk.
Predicted Lineup
3-5-2 : Buffon; Ogbonna, Bonucci, Chiellini; Lichtsteiner, Pereyra, Pirlo, Pogba, Evra; Llorente, Tevez
Injuries
Andrea Barzagli, Martin Caceres, Luca Marrone and Romulo
Suspended
Alvaro Morata
Sassuolo Scouting
As it happened in the past season, Sassuolo got off to a terrible start. There are some positives and some negatives. Barring the 7-0 collapse against Inter, their defense hasn’t looked particularly bad, helped by the return of Francesco Acerbi and by the purchases of Sime Vrsaljko and Federico Peluso. Thanks to an improved defense, they managed to salvage three points, even if they didn’t score.
The negative side is that they are struggling to score. Not having their biggest playmaker Domenico Berardi for three matches due to a silly elbow against Juan Jesus didn’t help: Sassuolo scored three goals in total, Berardi scored two, Zaza one, back in the first game. For the first time in his young career, Berardi is set to play against the team that owns half of his rights (he missed the two clashes in the past season due to suspensions).
Something seems off at Sassuolo in this start of the season: they look a bit disjointed and they are not the fun offensive-minded team that plays at a high rhythm they proved they can be in some stretches of the past season and in Serie B. Maybe Di Francesco, despite the constant use of 4-3-3, is taking more care of the defensive phase and he doesn’t want the squad to be unbalanced, but this appears to be hurting them on the other end. We’ll see in the next weeks if they drought was caused by the absence of Berardi or by something more structural.
The roster improved compared to the past season. They have stronger goalkeeper in Andrea Consigli, two good fullbacks and they added Saphir Taider to bolster the midfield. They redeemed Simone Zaza and Nicola Sansone, showing their financial strength and their ambition. It’s a young, almost fully Italian team on the rise, but they haven’t found their identity in this season yet.
On Saturday, they’ll be without Gianluca Pegolo, due to a fractured tibia, and Federico Peluso, who is suspended for this game: Alessandro Longhi will replace him. It’s strange that in this season Di Francesco hasn’t fielded Simone Missiroli consistently since he has been a key member in the past season and beyond. He often picked Davide Brighi and Davide Biondini over him, a hint of the defensive turn the team has taken. However, they missed Missiroli’s playmaking.
There aren’t many doubts about the lineup. Luca Antei and Francesco Acerbi are battling for the starting spot in the middle of the defense along with Paolo Cannavaro, Vrsaljko is favored over Marcello Gazzola at RB, Biondini is set to start over Brighi and Missiroli. Upfront there’ll be the magic Berardi-Zaza-Sansone trio, which remains extremely dangerous even if they haven’t found the back of the net very often.
It will be interesting whether they’ll play head-on, as it would be in their historic identity, risking to concede a lot, or if they’ll be more conservatives, as they have been so far, even if this attitude hasn’t really paid off.
Predicted Lineup
4-3-3: Consigli; Vrsaljko, Cannavaro, Acerbi, Longhi; Taider, Magnanelli, Biondini; Berardi, Zaza, Sansone.
Injuries
Gianluca Pegolo
Suspended
Federico Peluso
Formations
Finally.. Club football!
No Vidal since he will be rested after international duty!
I hope Coman-Tevez is the starting duo for this game, with Morata suspended and Llorente just not really scoring.
Llorente will start, Allegri said that at the press conference. This should be the perfect game for him to get some goals and confidence.
edit: it’s also the perfect game for Coman to get used to serie A more.. I really want to see him but I guess that will happen soon.
Coman – Llorente.. Might be a good combination, i think Coman has alot of speed too like Tevez.
Yeah both could profit but I want youth :p
roma up 3-0 against chievo and it aint even half time
Insane.. We should give a show tonight aswell, but it’ll probably be a 0-1 victory..
Juve Juve Juve!!!!!!
This stream will probably show it: https://stvstreams.com/streams/stvflash1.html
Hahaha our starting lineup according to goal.com
Juventus starting line-up (3-5-2): Buffon; Ogbonna, Bonucci, Ogbonna; Lichtsteiner, Pereyra, Pirlo, Pogba, Evra; Tevez, Llorente.
Ogbonna.. so nice we play him twice.
So good according to goal.com, he counts for two players
Instead of MVP we now have PPP xD
if you go by this our goalie plus defense is BOBO lol
Lmao
why did that goal not count?
holy shit zaza
yeah quite a gem of a goal there
PogBOOM
POGBAAAAA. that rb+b goal
Whoa now, you mean r1 and circle.
POGBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
anybody got a good stream? the dutch one keeps stalling on me.
https://cricfree.sx/bt-sport-1.php
awesome thanks
np!
🙁 perfect for me
it worked in the second half so i watched it there.
Watching this game on xbmc using amazon fire tv
Consigli having a great game
Alright Allegri, Marchisio for Pereyra 60′ and Coman for Llorente 75′. Pereyra was the wrong Udinese player to buy…especially for the position hes playing.
Marchisio in for Evra, wut?
change to a 4-3-1-2.
I dunno but its interesting
4-3-1-2?
finally Coman time again
Time to bang in a winner lads
We must win.
YES! Red card Padoin. and he didnt even play. Ill take a 1-1 draw, if it means Padoin cant play next game.
What the fuck happened? What did he do?
Who cares? No Padoin next game, means insta-win.
He wasn’t on the field today either lol.
Probably talked shit to the ref lol
Maybe he got mad at Allegri because his usual sub wasn’t done yet. He’s like ”Maxi it’s the 93rd minute, we had a deal i would get subbed in around the 75th minute, i hate you, Conte was so much better than you >.<'' Ref send him off before he harmed Allegri.
Bruh…
All is not lost. My week will be fixed if we defeat Olympiacos. Gotta watch out for Roma though, they aint gonna give up this season i think. I liked Pogba today.
Pogba is just showing how good he is. It’s either $$ for us or more glory with him plus $$ (like Zidane). We just gotta hold him a little more.
He’s showing how good he is for us.
why do we keep saying we have to hold on to Pogba for at least another season? are we really that small of a club that we can’t think about keeping him for years and years?
Marotta clearly thinks we are.
Allegri showing once again that he has no answer when juve are in dire need of a goal. He just throws on attacking players and hopes they get the job done
Conte used to get draws like this too.
Allegri isn’t that bad. I think this is the best start we’ve ever had in the league.
Im pretty sure we won our first 9-10 games one season not too long ago. I may be mistaken, but im pretty sure it was a
decent streak.
Ahh then I might be mistaken.
Still this win streak is very good.
Please don’t act like Allegri is doing better than Conte.
He isn’t going worse.
We should be thankful to the players and Conte for making a machine of this team. All Allegri is doing is continuing on Conte’s glory. Where has he given it his own touch?
had this same convo with my uncle while watching the game today. He said that either of us could have taken over the team and did what allegri has to start the season. Just piggy backing off conte. Also, would have liked to see llorente off much earlier
if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
We won the league by a record amount last season and we look like we’re going to do it again. We also finally won the first match in the CL group stages which we weren’t able to do with Conte because he couldn’t care less about the CL.
His own touch? @JuventusVidal:disqus says it himself. Tevez is performing twice as well as last season. We can consider him our star player now. It will be a huge benefit against the bigger teams.
I wasn’t with the resignation of Conte but it’s ridiculous how people are treating Allegri. He’s doing just as well as Conte if not better.
i’m not saying allegri should resign. just that he needs to develop a back up to his original tactics. another issue with tevez dropping so deep is that llorente is left stranded. not being a very mobile player and constantly having to play with his back to goal has resulted in poor form for llorente. so allegri should either have tevez play closer to llorente or play a more mobile player in place of llorente. also, of course tevez is playing better. the tactics are built around him. but who else has been playing better? llorente? pogba? asamoah? lichtsteiner? none of them are doing better this season than they did under conte. that’s because conte didn’t have the team’s tactics set to suit just one player. he did his best to accomodate as many of his players, the best he could
Pogba’s been way better though. I don’t think it’s because of Allegri but I think it’s because of how he’s developing. Allegri’s also playing Pereyra very well. I don’t think Pereyra would’ve done as well under Conte.
I don’t think anyone is asking for Allegri to resign. But he’s getting too much shit for no reason. We’re still playing world class football. One draw against a team like Sassuolo, which, mind you, used to happen a lot under Conte doesn’t meant Allegri hasn’t improved the team.
Soooo True!
He’s only doing well cuz of tevez coming clutch time and time again. Conte went two seasons with mediocre forwards
What do you mean “only well because of Tevez coming clutch time and time again”? You can’t say that… That’s like saying Ancelotti’s only doing well because of Ronaldo coming clutch time and time again. Tevez is a player on our team. Allegri changed Tevez’s position and it worked.
allegri has built the system around tevez. whenever tevez struggles, the team struggles (chievo, atletico). allegri has no alternative or back up plan to the system with tevez dropping deep.
Conte had the same problem but it was based around Pirlo. He didn’t have a plan B as well. From what I remember, you, I, and pretty much all the other commenters were complaining about the same thing with Conte; the lack of a plan B.
conte had a plan B. if pirlo was man marked he’d move out of the way and bonucci would push forward. also, he worked on the partnership between vidal and pogba a lot in his final season. if tevez is unable to deliver, allegri just throws on attackers
Allegri hasnt been bad so far, but its clear how reliant we are on Tevez… at least from what ive saw. Allegri has no solid plan B, or any backup plan at all. I dont consider throwing in all the strikers a plan b. At Milan, he relied heavily on Ibra and El Shaarawy(until Balo arrived). Now its Tevez and when Tevez is marked out, we lack so much creativity and pass the ball around aimlessly, hoping something will happen.
Exactly.
Anyway, if we had to drop points to a team, id want that team to be sassuolo
me too.. I like Sassuolo next to Juventus
this is what makes marchisio great:
We haven’t brought home all three points, but we look forward, as always.
Back in the Champions League, with a very important challenge for the future in Europe.
We played 7 matches .6 WINS and 1 tie.
Our way is good, but we know that we can and must give more.
As always … until the end …
Night
https://football-italia.net/57373/khedira-key-vidal-deal
Khedira “key” to Vidal to Real. Khedira and Marcelo/Coentrao as part of the deal and maybe. Khedira is pretty good, not who I want to replace Vidal, but if a deal was made I wouldnt be disappointed.
khediras world class and pretty underrated. And i rate Marcelo as the best left back right now so id like that deal
I’d rather have Allan over Khedira, but I’d take that deal if it was offered.
O cant stress how important it is to play a 4-3-3 and atleast play giovinco. Pereya impressed last night and linked really well with giovinco. we need their pace. This juves to slow