Absolute disgrace, I won't feel bad if we lose the Scudetto. Napoli deserves to win it more than us at this point. Playing at home and Max chose to sit back and absorb a full 90 min of attack from Napoli, lol!

I have no complaint from the defense, the header was pretty much unstoppable but Benatia should've challenge for it. And Pjanic, I hate it when he's frustrated and got an unnecessary yellow card at the beginning of the match. He's our playmaker and yet our CB are spraying the long balls?

At this point I would rather lose the title. It's so annoying to watch Juve play to not lose rather than trying for a win

Dude, thanks for sharing that article, what a good read.

As you said, there's really no point lingering over the loss to Napoli. Let's just focus on the next few games and if possible win the 7th in a row. Inter have been in good form lately but they also lost to Torino earlier this month, so...anything's possible.

I hope the team is able to overcome this slight setback and re-focus for the remainder of the season; we still have a lot to fight for.

After the season is done is when we should start talking about transfers etc I think.

from all my experience watching Juve, they works best when they're under pressure, when their back put against the wall, and when the odds were stacked against em

like the 3-0 trailing against Real Madrid earlier this month

hopefully they'll use the loss to Napoli last week as a kickstart to shatter their hopes once again. u see those pics where Napoli celebrating the 1-0 win like they've already
won the Scudetto...and one fans already making a tattoo of that 1-0 win. Seeing Naples crying(once again) at the end of the season would be precious indeed

and about transfer talk, read somewhere that Super Mario gonna leave Juve at the end of the season. A big loss for Juve indeed

great article...mainly about Buffon and his final season, both as Juve & Italia captain

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/i...wright-thompson

as for the loss against Napoli, there's no use lingering over there as things happened

all Juve need to do now is doing all they can, starting against arch-rival Inter all the way to final match against Verona

Good article.

Few years ago I got the chance to walk in Turin, few hours before wonderful match Juve - Milan.
The town was quite empty and lifeless I must say. It's like old Seremban or Melaka. If not for the snow, the road was quite dusty and old. KL roads are much better.

The atmosphere really change around Alianze Arena (J Stadium that time). It give people joy and hope. The colors of the city suddenly comes alive around the stadium. Probably I was just over excited, but being among J fans, went to the J Museum, J store, supermarket & marts etc brings everlasting joy.

Perhaps this is why Buffon was very upset. It was his last chance for UCL, but there's also 23-years wait for Juventus fans, and Juventus just come shorts on too many occasions already. It was just too heavy for Buffon.

As after the Napoli game, Juve camp is in a bit of disarray, and we as fans really need to stick together, even when losing. There are 4 finals not to be missed, so get ready.

InterMerda awaits as first victim

Unbelievable.

I'm happy for the win and the last minute nature of it - we really saw our guys play it out till the end literally.

However, I do share a lot of the sentiments as you guys.

I mean, how is it that we looked like the team that was down to 10-men? I don't know if it's Allegri who wants us to sit on the slim lead or what but seriously if we want to win this, we need to buck up.

Otherwise, would've been kinda interesting to see how Napoli reacted.

Lol. Napoli another season end choking game. If we win 2 of the 3 remaining games then it's another title for us

#se7enth

And not to mentioned we're suck when it comes to defending set pieces

How many times has we conceded a goal like that. It already cost us against Napoli...and nearly did the same last night. No one marking Icardi? When the dude having a great scoring record against Juve. Like seriously..

You are spot on about our set piece defending, it has been pretty bad this time around.

About our performances lately, I've been thinking maybe, just maybe that we've been too harsh on the team. Perhaps you guys can chip in as well, but I decided to take a look at the other top leagues; La Liga, Bundesliga and EPL...and I realised that...actually, we are not too far off the top performers of those respective leagues.

sometimes yep, we've been quite harsh. But main reason is that the team doesn't look like having a "character" of champions in some of the matches. Prime example was against Napoli
Playing not to lose, playing to defend a slim lead etc. Hence IMO these are the main reason why some of fans were quite harsh towards the team

I mean, performance in Europe aside, we are actually doing pretty well alongside the top of each league - Man City may be exempted due to an extraordinary season and an even more extraordinary coach in Pep Guardiola 

the team actually doing quite well in UCL this season. We're only behind the mighty Barca in the group, and knocking out Spurs whose undefeated & top of their group with the likes of Real & Dortmund

and the tie against Real could've gone either way if not for that harsh last minute penalty

I mean, we're up there guys - nothing to be ashamed about honestly. That being said though, it is true that we have dropped in our performance level in the last few games especially in terms of concentration and killing off games. Sometimes it seems like the players don't really want the scudetto!

see my comment in red above

One thing that has me worried though is that a few journalists are already starting to write articles about the start of an end of an era for Juve. I'm not saying I agree but they do have their points. A couple points which kinda make sense are things like (if Juve win the 7th in a row) how hungry will they be next season and stuff like the old guard are gradually leaving Juve, with Buffon, Barzagli probably making way for a new generation. Other stuff also like, how long can a team continue like this - in fact I'm not even sure the longest streak of a team winning the domestic championship... is it Man Utd?

Some of the questions, to me at least, make sense and have some truth to it. It'll just be hard for me to swallow when it actually happens...and we all know a streak will end at some point.

Lyon holds the record for top 5 European league IINM. With 7 straight win streak.

and yeah, our streak would ended sometimes soon...but i'm optimistic it would NOT be this season to Napoli...not yet..

hopefully this guy didn't forget to made a tattoo written like this

" 8' Koulibaly [Red Card] "

right next to this one

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q...dRvIrXcFHuwZWOC

QUOTE(McF7y @ Apr 30 2018, 08:26 AM)
You are spot on about our set piece defending, it has been pretty bad this time around.

About our performances lately, I've been thinking maybe, just maybe that we've been too harsh on the team. Perhaps you guys can chip in as well, but I decided to take a look at the other top leagues; La Liga, Bundesliga and EPL...and I realised that...actually, we are not too far off the top performers of those respective leagues.

sometimes yep, we've been quite harsh. But main reason is that the team doesn't look like having a "character" of champions in some of the matches. Prime example was against Napoli
Playing not to lose, playing to defend a slim lead etc. Hence IMO these are the main reason why some of fans were quite harsh towards the team

I mean, performance in Europe aside, we are actually doing pretty well alongside the top of each league - Man City may be exempted due to an extraordinary season and an even more extraordinary coach in Pep Guardiola  blush.gif

the team actually doing quite well in UCL this season. We're only behind the mighty Barca in the group, and knocking out Spurs whose undefeated & top of their group with the likes of Real & Dortmund

and the tie against Real could've gone either way if not for that harsh last minute penalty

I mean, we're up there guys - nothing to be ashamed about honestly. That being said though, it is true that we have dropped in our performance level in the last few games especially in terms of concentration and killing off games. Sometimes it seems like the players don't really want the scudetto!

see my comment in red above

One thing that has me worried though is that a few journalists are already starting to write articles about the start of an end of an era for Juve. I'm not saying I agree but they do have their points. A couple points which kinda make sense are things like (if Juve win the 7th in a row) how hungry will they be next season and stuff like the old guard are gradually leaving Juve, with Buffon, Barzagli probably making way for a new generation. Other stuff also like, how long can a team continue like this - in fact I'm not even sure the longest streak of a team winning the domestic championship... is it Man Utd?

Some of the questions, to me at least, make sense and have some truth to it. It'll just be hard for me to swallow when it actually happens...and we all know a streak will end at some point.

Lyon holds the record for top 5 European league IINM. With 7 straight win streak.

and yeah, our streak would ended sometimes soon...but i'm optimistic it would NOT be this season to Napoli...not yet..

Honestly I don't mind if we lose the scudetto either this season or next. What piss me off is the negative tactics of Max. Who in the hell will sit back after a goal lead and absorb their opponents' attack for the rest of the game? Just play the game how it's started, try to score another 1 or 2 then only you think about sitting back

The results in the league doesn't represent the gap between us and the other European powerhouse. It's the mind set and how we approach the game that separates us from them

I know it's our DNA to show respect towards our opponents by not totally destroy them. TBH, this is BS. You have scored 3 against this opponent and then you just stop playing football by simply backpass, headless chicken runs etc? This is more disrespecting than scoring for fun against them

We will never reach the top as long as we are instilled with the negative tactics/mindset

Honestly I don't mind if we lose the scudetto either this season or next. What piss me off is the negative tactics of Max. Who in the hell will sit back after a goal lead and absorb their opponents' attack for the rest of the game? Just play the game how it's started, try to score another 1 or 2 then only you think about sitting back

The results in the league doesn't represent the gap between us and the other European powerhouse. It's the mind set and how we approach the game that separates us from them

I know it's our DNA to show respect towards our opponents by not totally destroy them. TBH, this is BS. You have scored 3 against this opponent and then you just stop playing football by simply backpass, headless chicken runs etc? This is more disrespecting than scoring for fun against them

We will never reach the top as long as we are instilled with the negative tactics/mindset