guys, i know we will have a very very big match tomorrow nite as we must win against nord.. even a draw will be bad or worst we lose.. i hope conte will deployed all of our finest player n no bedner.

put that aside, lets hav a bit of discussion bout our ''scoreless'' strikers... i hv been wondering bout this since after amauri era. then we has boriello also almost be the nex amauri but thankfully he did scored a few crucial goals for us toward the end of las season. but this season, all our strikers becomin more like amauri in term of unable to scored eventho we they hav a lot of good chances in front of goals.

to date our stikers

Fabio Quagliarella - 3 goals
Sebastian Giovinco - 3 goals
Mirko Vucinic - 2 goals
Alessandro Matri - 1 goals
Nicklas Bendtner - no goal yet

this is worrisome guys.. even for a out form ac milan, their striker el sharrawy is leading the serie a top scorer. i compared to all leagues in europe, other than la liga where messi,ronaldo n falcao hav 10 goals or more, other strikers have an average of 6-8 goals by now. but for our strikers, i just dont know what to say anymore. im not saying they r not good, they can create,dribble,pass xcept unable to finish it. is it an amauri curse or something? or are our strikers very lack of world class level? we r the old lady, we r back being a giant again in europe, we r by far the best domestic club in italy, but we hav this weird problem. it is a good thing that all our goals came from any position of players bout strikers shud score a lot more. also iinm all our goals mostly came from set pieces compared to a more direct approach.

im sure our top management has aware of this, they shud have. so this coming january transfer i hope they wil bring in a very good striker to solve this issue. i frustrated we unable to get RVP wit us, i really wish he, or cavanni or falcao could join us but i dun c that will happen. shud we get Giuseppe Rossi this january? coz other than him, i dunno anymore top strikers available n can play ucl for us. he shud already healed by then but ofcoz his injury prone and his performance after his injuries is still in doubt whether he is a right choice for us or not.. so guys, what do u have tosay regarding this matter? i am really worry in the situation is continuous like this. we cant win if we dont score, n we also cant win if we dont score more than our opponent.

The first 15 to 20 mins against Inter we could have put the game to bed. But instead of our strikers getting into great goal scoring positions, it was our midfielders. And eventhough Vidal and Marchisio are great going forward, they are no strikers in terms of finishing. Thats why football has different position like strikers and midfielders. Vidal and Marchsio choose the wrong options and i not for once blame them becuase they are afterall midfielders.

That is when our toothless strikers come in. Inter not just played well, they had a top striker to trouble us. Milito was a huge difference between us and Inter that night. He probed, he moved into channels, he drew fouls, he confused our backline. Bendtner on the other hand has a nice touch. And thats about it. Full stop. Giovinco can get past players, but when he did, he passed the ball back to the opponents.

A striker with more quality must surely come in now. Or we will stare at the possibility of a one season wonder. We might end up finishing 2nd or 3rd and out of UCL at grp stage.

Get someone. Llorente or Dzeko or whatever la. They are not WC, but hell they are way better than the pathetic bunch we have now. The oonly 2 strikers that can stay is Quag and Vucinic. Vucinic will support the new guy, Quag and giovinco as subs. Then we can start talking about retaining the title and fighting for UCL.

agreed wit kuale, me other fav team which barca, tho they have plenty of reliable strikers, they also have a magician - messi who can do wonders in a very crucial moment, especially this season where barca are weak in defense n always have to make a come back victory.

how i wish we hav such wonder boy. for now i saw there is a lot of potential for pogba to be our wonderboy. march also a candidate. but again they r not strikers.. arghhhh how i missed the tym when trez and del piero as our strikers, we hav nedved too..

from the official site, it seems Vuci's back on the lineup. But whether he gonna get chosen @ not i'm not sure. Only Pepe was absent

1 Buffon
2 Lucio
3 Chiellini
4 Caceres
6 Pogba
8 Marchisio
9 Vucinic
11 De Ceglie
12 Giovinco
15 Barzagli
17 Bendtner
19 Bonucci
20 Padoin
21 Pirlo
22 Asamoah
23 Vidal
24 Giaccherini
26 Lichtsteiner
27 Quagliarella
30 Storari
32 Matri
33 Isla
34 Rubinho
39 Marrone
*as for Destro cases..yes a stupid way for getting sent off but he deserved that
yellow card offenses

Good win, feel bad for matri unable to score any goal.. but good assist from him tho..
Demmit chelsea won so last minute. Now we need to win all the remainin games.

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Added on November 8, 2012, 5:42 am

I hope we will beat chelsea at our home.

I missed the match..from what i see is the stadium is not full...

Hope for full crowd against chelsea.

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Added on November 8, 2012, 11:09 amiimn this is first marchisio goal this season right?

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Added on November 8, 2012, 11:13 amBTW next match against pescara will be good chance for matri or bendtner to gain th confidence back..

after watching the Celtic-Barca highlights.. OMG, what an atmosphere in the Parkhead stadium. 3 times i got the goosebumps when watching the videos; Wanyama goal, Watt goal, final whistle

Lets hope our stadium can have the atmosphere as close as that atleast during Chelsea visit in the 2 weeks time

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Added on November 8, 2012, 12:25 pmand yeah what a 'nice' timing 

(11) Pescara vs Juventus
(18) Juventus vs Lazio
(20) Juventus vs Chelsea
(25) AC Milan vs Juventus

Lazio,Chelsea,Milan in space of a week. No disrespect to Pescara but i agree we should use mostly the 2nd choices player against em.
Pirlo esp should be rested bcoz he played almost every matches for 90minutes

and our 2nd lineup is not that bad considering we can fielded; Storari -- Caceres-Marrone-Lucio -- Isla-Pogba-Padoin-Giacc-PDC -- Matri-Bendtner

we can afford losing some points in serie a bcoz its still a long wide race but the match vs Chelsea is a super-crucial.
And we want to avoid losing at all cost in Donetsk. So i hope Conte/Alessio would give the main attention to UCL matches at this time

Pepe is already on the shortlist since Catania match, IINM the reason he absent in the list last night was bcoz
of family issue

u are a nobody and just keep your shit-worthy opinion to yourself

good news guy, inter loss. now we r back to 4 point lead. hope we keep maintaining our winning momentum again, so far after our first loss, we won big, 4-0, n 6-1..

on the side note, lazio beat milan, a really tough task for our player to face them this weekend, hope conte has a very good strategy for this match as we lost one of our mvp for this match. shud 'P'ogba take that role guys??

Italy vs France probable lineup tonight;

Buffon, Santon, Chiellini, Barzagli, Balzaretti, Marchisio, Montolivo, Giaccherini, Pirlo, Balotelli, El Shaarawy

friendly by name, not-so by nature. I just hope all of our players return in 100% after the match. Just couldn't figure why would there's some international break(irony, a not-so 'break' for me) during the crucial week

we have Lazio-Chelsea-Milan in a space of 7 days...now we'll have our players exhausted even more heading to these crucial matches(esp UCL against Chelsea).

dem, the keeper again so immortal against us..

FIFA Fifpro World XI (defensive) shortlist;

Jordi Alba (Spain, Barcelona); Gareth Bale (Wales, Tottenham); Giorgio Chiellini (Italy, Juventus); Ashley Cole (England, Chelsea); Dani Alves (Brazil, Barcelona); David Luiz (Brazil, Chelsea); Patrice Evra (France, Manchester United); Rio Ferdinand (England, Manchester United); Mats Hummels (Germany, Borussia Dortmund); Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia, Chelsea); Vincent Kompany (Belgium, Manchester City); Philipp Lahm (Germany, Bayern Munich), Marcelo (Brazil, Real Madrid); Javier Mascherano (Argentina, Barcelona); Pepe (Portugal, Real Madrid); Gerard Pique (Spain, Barcelona); Carles Puyol (Spain, Barcelona); Sergio Ramos (Spain, Real Madrid); John Terry (England, Chelsea); Thiago Silva (Brazil, Paris Saint-Germain).

only chiellini? Barzagli deserved his place there. What more can u do as a defender by going the entire
season undefeated and only conceded around 20+ in the league... And no Lichsteiner either..LOL what a joke

is this our only nomination? what about midfielder or striker nomination? ok...maybe not the strikers..but the midfielders im sure? hahahaha

the side definitely looked worn out, with so many players from the same chelsea game playing, im starting to think that this is taking its' toll..