Juventus-AC Milan: the big match in 11 duels
The Devil Zebra rampant against the wound, the dream shield against hope Champions (or whatever is left of it), but also one of the classic derby par excellence of Italy: Stadio Olimpico in Turin will be on stage this evening, the highlight of the match day 28 Serie A between Juventus and Gigi Delneri Milan Max Allegri. A clash that has the taste of a thousand fights and a championship final of the Champions League, but never like this year sees two teams face instead of the antipodes, as rated by the mental point of view. For Juventus, first of all it is a final, first of all, strictly speaking, for the same Delneri: a new defeat, the third in a row, might be the tombstone on the experience of technical Aquilea in Turin, as well as the last general greeting the ambitions of conquest in Europe that counts, not the''League''at this point is likely to be, in turn, at risk. On the other hand, for the Rossoneri, it is a fundamental step towards the conquest of the flag after the sound success at home against Napoli, who has projected the ranks of Allegri +5 to +6 on the same Inter and Naples. A match so important, even lived with less rivalry (always in a regime of correctness) than in the past that will live comparisons among the 22 players in the field (of course we stick to those that are considered the most probable line).
vs Buffon. Abbiati
Both goalkeepers of great experience and of undoubted value, however, are experiencing a season is completely different from each other: for Gigi, after persistent back problems, the league has just started a couple of months ago and certainly in the best way, either for a defense certainly not insurmountable (as evidenced by the number of goals in Juve household earned by season, record low in A), want a return to quality than before (largely because of physical problems as well as age). The Rossoneri goalkeeper other hand, while leading in turn to a couple of injuries the season, while not serious, is enjoying a season starring as evidenced by the total received goals from AC Milan, the best defense in the league. A department often criticized and considered the most vulnerable in the formation of Allegri, yet also one of the safest due to''gate''dropped in the middle of the poles.
vs Barzagli. Thiago Silva
The former World Champion in 2006, then came home in January after years in Wolfsburg, it was shown in ball beyond expectations despite the unfortunate time of the team. Proof of this is the sacrifice of Bonucci, relegated to the bench by Delneri just to make room for the more experienced fellow central defender. Milan at home instead, for some time, the Brazilian defender is a certainty and granite more than once this season, having also the carnage of injuries in midfield, has demonstrated its flexibility by adapting the midline. A strong point of the essential mechanisms of Allegri.
vs Chiellini. Nesta
battle between two quality shots of the best Italian defenders in recent years. The Juventus vice-captain will return to occupy his central role after being spent a couple of games on the left wing, as the''old days''of the beginning in A with the jersey of Fiorentina and Livorno. The central AC Milan will try instead to preside over its area with the usual dust that made him important, despite the myriad injuries that have heavily influenced at least the last five years of his career.
vs Sorensen. Abate
Sull'out defense right off the young, or even the very young, the talented 18 year old Danish Delneri been cleared through customs by the first team, on the one hand and the 24 year old full-back son of the other art. Two home-grown talent, blossomed, almost suddenly, in the case of Juventus, or sent to mature in different places, also important, before being welcomed back with open arms with a technical background and mental health of great importance. Fresh, but not inexperienced.
vs Traore. Jankulovski
Sull'out space instead of left to rebounds. A little 'surprise is that Delneri Allegri line up two players for a long time on the edge of their roses, though for different reasons. The 21-year old Franco-Senegalese Traore, the Arsenal property, pays the problems of muscle weakness that kept him out for much of the season and are one of the factors which prevented the player to prevail in a team average age is extremely low as Wenger's Arsenal. Marek Jankulovski finds a contrast jersey holder after having spent most of the season in the stands and with the approval of Allegra,''no doubt''thanks to injuries to Bonera, Antonini, Oddo and Zambrotta and indifference of the technical Tuscan against Sokratis Papasthatopoulos.
vs. Felipe Melo. Van Bommel
in the midfield duel between median harsh, that certainly does not make compliments to lengthen the leg on the ball as much as opponents ankles (or shoulder height). The former captain of Bayern Monaco is now well set in the Rossoneri shirt and accomplices of the long injury Ambrosini and Pirlo, has carved a permanent place in the midfield of the Devil. Quantity rather than quality, but most of all, thanks to age, a lot of experience. What perhaps is lacking in the central Brazilian Juve, still too naive in many situations in the field, but shrewd enough to emphasize their physicality, as well as in bad.
vs Marchisio. Gattuso
Two different approaches to the field, but the same attachment to the mesh and the same desire to advocate at the forefront of the causes of the team. The Juventus midfielder, Juventus have always puts us in a more secure that quality that perhaps the''missing''Ringhio Rossoneri, but every so often lost in the field during some stages of the match, perhaps too generous in some breakers. This feature also common to number 8 AC Milan, one that often, rather than replaced, should be dragged off the field, not for another grant that would have to say its even in extreme conditions.
Krasic vs. Flamini
More wing Serbian, more integration with the vice-old Frenchman, playing both with the task of helping both the forward defense. Operation that, for technical features, perhaps the French do best, which probably lacks that extra bit of quality. The exterior black and white,''said as more offensive''by nature, man is the classic lightning restart, dribbling on the wings and cross. An attitude physically very expensive, probably because the main period of decline that Serbia is going through after starting the season on the shields. Although this does not exclude Delneri, because he knows that his foot may arise always excellent opportunities for attack.
vs. Martinez. Boateng
last beach against the sea itself? For the Uruguayan former Catania granted the chance by coach from Friuli, after a very disappointing performance after returning from long injury, is likely to be very last. And the player is likely to be targeted, in the front row, between the scapegoats of the disappointing season for Juventus. Want to performance, either for the money spent by the company (too many, but the blame lies with Marotta, not the player), or not suitable for the role all'uruguagio, well used to playing wing than winger. Boa Boateng''for''the same sea is the confirmation of the place after his return from long injury and especially the network against Napoli. A season, that of Ghana, which may have finally taken a good turn after the first few months so so much.
vs Toni. Cassano
Players Finished? The ram Juventus and AC Milan playmaker certainly do not have their age, but in the field are trying to prove that he is standards compliant to take advantage of what is probably the last big chance of their career. Two strikers with very different characteristics (physical strength and height to the first, imagination and agility for the second) until January but that seemed unrelated to the dynamics of two bodies in the league, little loved (to put it mildly) by the Presidents themselves; Toni prolific little to Genoa and heavily contested by Preziosi, Cassano even put out pink Garrone after the altercation so famous for seemingly trivial reasons. After just over two months, despite all live a Juve-Milan as protagonists. Perhaps the last.
vs Matri. Ibrahimovic
The young hope and the''old''leader, the most classic of the comparisons between ex: first''''Matri Mitra, School of Milan, 26, a training period in the lower divisions and a few seasons starring in Cagliari, now called upon to use the opportunity of life,''the other''Ibracadabra, the nomad, not trivial and stupid as racist reasons for the marked tendency to change depending on mesh mood and objectives. He wanted to win everything, even tried with just the shirt of Juventus before fleeing, post Calciopoli, on the other side Inter. Then the Barcelona experience substantially negative, then again Milan. Of championships they came, those, yes, but Ibra wants more, much more. In order not to be some new tummy. And who knows the end and not really the inspiration his young colleague.
ps Do not forget the great duel between the two excluded Pato and Del Piero, not only by class but united by mutual respect (the Duck has announced that Brazil would like to ask the Juventus captain the shirt after the game). A duel only delayed as to the timetable and we will probably see in the second half.