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This article was published March 19, 2015 at 08:19.
So scared for nothing: 3-0 and Borussia Dortmund out of the Champions League. The difference between the first of the Italian league and the tenth in the Bundesliga still exists, and how. And appeared in all its evidence last night, with the Bianconeri authors of a game controlled from the first to the last minute.
True that the goal of Tevez, after 180 seconds of the game, put the race in descent, but is also true that the champions are used exactly for this. To do what others can not do. How, for example, firing a torpedo kicking stationary piercing the German goalkeeper without giving him time to intervene.
The logical reaction of Borussia not only last long, but mostly serves little. Just long enough to record the injury Pogba (hit from behind in a slip by Papastathopoulos) forced to leave the field: it could have for a month, and it is not good news for Juventus.
Replacement performed with Barzagli and immediate change of tactical planning, with three defense. The fury of the Germans is not fury, even if for at least fifteen minutes Juve moves back excessively on their reach by being crushed inside their own half. But is this: not a dangerous shot, not really an action worthy of note by the hosts.
Understand that the risk does not exist, the Bianconeri bring the center of gravity 20 meters ahead and put the end to the race: the second half was played in full control of the opponent, with two goals to seal a valuable win. Morata at the 70th and 79th again Tevez to sign the 3-0 final result even too tight for the gap seen in the field.
After the match the coach of Borussia Klopp admits: “We lost against a team much stronger. Juventus was perfect and we must recognize its merits. “
The sign of perfection is, for example, in the game of Tevez: two shots on goal, two goals, an assist on the goal of Morata. Essential and deadly at the same time. But the same sign of perfection is also in having absorbed the double absence of Pirlo and Pogba (which actually missing two thirds of the race) without suffering bumps visible. It may seem paradoxical, but without the two axes to which all rely make more. It was long ago that you could not see Juventus play this way in the Champions League.
Critics might say that the goal of Tevez scored once the race and that Borussia was an easy opponent: jokes unnecessary, you go into the field against the opponent that you reserve the draw and beat him is always a merit.
The Bianconeri are a solid team, that the mediocre level of the Italian league is not the best training for international competitions. But they rose in players who are still able to compete at a high level and to make a difference, so ruthless, against opponents as Borussia Dortmund. In two games roundtrip 5 goals to 1, and that one network donated to a slip of Chiellini.
I still believe that we are in the Champions strongest teams Juventus, like Bayern, Real and Barcelona, but I also think that Juventus view last night, able to take the field without awe, to be able to gamble against anyone.
I confirm my idea: Allegri has calibrated the athletic training for all at maximum form from the quarter-finals. The gamble could pay off, especially if the urn in Nyon on Friday came out a draw “soft”. Monaco first, but Porto.
The important thing now is to keep our feet on the ground: Juventus must take note of their own strength without excess in the enthusiasm, because to play against Bayern or Real involve other problems. But they have to cancel, as they have been able to do last night, fear of not succeeding. The fear of imposing their game.
The first of the Italian championship is still true, full, a place among the top eight in Europe. And do not think that next Friday, the draw for the quarterfinals of the Champions, someone will come hoping to draw it as half.
PS I’ve never been a Juve fan, but last night I rooted Juventus. Because it is an Italian team, because a victory would have been important for the Uefa ranking of our football, but mostly because I was disgusted by how vulgar and full of hatred with which he spoke of “Rubentus” hoping a disastrous defeat. So vulgar and full of hatred that is coupled, provoking equal disgust, with the sentences on the Scudetto of prescribed and so on. Football is the only sport where the love for the game and their team are regularly exceeded by hatred for the enemy. Seems to be back to the times of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, as if a nearly a millennium of evolution of mankind had not done any good. Forget Rubentus and Prescribed and talk about football. Without hatred and insults is still a large beautiful sport.
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