April 9, 2015
Sitting pretty at the top of Serie A with a healthy lead of 14 points over second placed Roma – which may as well be 15 considering the head to head measures – into the quarter-finals of the champions league and recently demolishing our friends in Florence to forge a path to the coppa italia final, […]
March 15, 2015
We approached this game with the knowledge that a win would put us 14 points clear at the top and the aim of finding some momentum and form in the lead-up to our crunch tie mid week against Dortmund. Palermo, whilst sitting in tenth spot in the table had been – as could be said […]
March 8, 2015
“We want to achieve the maximum in every competition we take part in,” continued Marotta. “The Coppa Italia brings lustre to Italian football and tonight we’ll try to honour it. “We have a line-up that fully reflects the expectations of the club. We must do well to take any opportunity to raise the bar.” – […]
January 26, 2015
With Pirlo succumbing to flu, the always dependable Marchisio replaced him as the fulcrum to the side. Morata was rewarded for his recent hints of finding form by starting up top alongside Tevez. Other than which, the only placement of note was Vidal returning to a more centrally focused midfield role as Pereyra found himself […]
December 27, 2014
Despite the disappointing loss to Napoli in the SuperCup, Allegri’s debut season as Juve coach has gone as much to plan as any of us could have hoped. Many feared that the loss of charismatic coach Antonio Conte could lead to a downturn in the steady domestic success of the last three seasons. Roma have […]
December 15, 2014
The 1-1 draw at home to Sampdoria was a testament to the timeless adage ‘a game of two halves’. So complete was our control during the first period, so intense our attacking waves and with our opponents penned into heir own half, often with ten men behind the ball; I was expecting an avalanche of […]
November 28, 2014
It appears that despite interest from Chelsea amongst other top european clubs, juve have won the race to sign budding croatian star Andrej Kramaric. The 23 year old began his career at Dinamo Zagreb after his sixth birthday, where after smashing over 450 goals for the youth sides he was hailed as something rather […]
November 24, 2014
Those who believe the stories of Juve staff handing over the keys to Maseratis to referees, Moggi locking officials in the club quarters or bribing them, are quite possibly the same goons who believe Saddam had WMD, or that Osama Bin Laden blew up the twin towers, or that Assad invited UN chemical weapons inspectors […]
November 23, 2014
With the wonderful fluidity and cutting edge displayed throughout the impressive 7-0 drubbing of parma, I was one of many slightly bothered with the international break and worried that players would lose their momentum, or worse still, return to the ranks exhausted or injured. Such concerns were aided by the decision of Conte to rest […]
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