Juventus’ closest journalist gave their fans a preview of what The Old Lady can expect next week. Apparently, Juve were lucky drawing Celtic, who are not the same as the team who beat them 4-3 11 seasons ago (but didn’t qualify for the knock out stage).
The outcome of the second leg is a formality, but Celtic Park has them spooked:
“Juventus got a benign [Champions League] draw, even lucky.
“The Bhoys are not the same team who beat Juventus 4-3 a few years ago. They have a few gems, like [Tony] Watt, but bet everything on physical and dead-ball football. Celtic Park is absolutely extraordinary, it goes beyond what you can write, read or tell. What you see on television is not even the smallest part of what you endure in the flesh, 60,000 people do not offend you but make you know you are in the enemy camp.
“The Park is one of the most influential and dangerous stages in the world. It has everything to challenge you, to induce the classic ‘bad day’, to give you stomach cramps and the need to get out as soon as possible. The fact Celtic beat Barcelona there was not random.
“Common sense suggests Celtic cannot beat Barcelona but football said different. They did with merit, playing beyond their means and with a little luck. This is what Juventus will need to be wary of.
“Antonio Conte will hammer into his players not to underestimate their opponents, but for once it is not the team, it’s the stadium the need to worry about.
“Forget folklore images of children wearing green and white scarves, or of fans coming out of Scottish pubs and going to the game by finishing a beer and ordering another. Don’t let the chorus of ‘You’ll never walk alone’ charm you if you have not heard it with your own ears. To watch from your HD TV is one thing, be there for 90 minutes, start to finish, ever if you’re winning, is different.
“Celtic are different than usual teams. Juventus fans, if they behave the way they should and live this adventure the right way, will have a great experience. The Juventus Stadium can be a bit like Celtic Park. We Italians miss their culture, their history, their being able to accept any defeat and celebrate every possible outcome, accepting any opponent. Their team will be sacred of Juventus but their stadium and fans will not say the same thing.”
We’ll play our part on Tuesday but I am sure Neil Lennon and his players will be pleased to hear they are considered something of a sideshow. The victory over Barcelona was a magnificent but it was achieved as a result of a tactical master-plan, nothing less. It’s the men in green and white hoops Juve need to watch.
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Paul67
Can I also echo South of Tunis’s request?
Would love to know who this ‘journalist’ is.
According to him Celtic would be as well plucking 11 guys out of the crowd on Tuesday and lining them up against Juve – the players are obviously wasting their time turning up!
HH!!
Did Mr Green not say that any left over shares he wd buy them??
Man United are reportedly sniffing around Juventus with Sir Alex Ferguson said to be keen on both Chilean international Arturo Vidal and Italian midfielder Claudio Marchisio according to TuttoSport.
Sir Alex helping Neil our by unsettling them before the game?
LiviBhoy – 12:24 on 8 February, 2013
No me neither but these shares were definitely bought, which is potentially not the case for the ‘institutional investor’ shares.
I posted last night that 90% (around 2M) of all shares traded since opening day have been sales, and yet the price sits 17% above launch price. That isn’t really what you’d expect.
There may have been people more well versed in the stock market that knew this was likely to happen and therefore bought in and then sold out at a reasonable profit. 2M is quite a hefty chunk of those taken up by the ‘public’. I suspect a great many buying shares weren’t necessarily fans. Or were those in exile, wanting to do ‘their bit’.
Nice one Paul67
Does the writer maybe mean ‘lucky’ as in to be experiencing Celtic Park on a Champions league night ? I feel very lucky to be going to Celtic Park on Tuesday.
midfield maestro – 12:32 on 8 February, 2013
Ssh you. I cannae get anywhere.
Paul67
The message is getting out there and have to admit that the flattery lands rather well …
It’s interesting article identifies Tony Watt as a key player -who might not even play –
Do you think if we sing a romantic arietta in a loop all night, they will be seduced and forget to defend their honour ?
There may be a lady of a certain age, caught out with her slip showing ;-)
Paradise is the only place to be on Tuesday nite
HH
In a restaurant at Munich train station with my Hoops on. Waiter says Celtic Glasgow. I say yes. Waiter says Moravcik. I say Lubo. He smiles and says have a beer on me. I say champion and will leave him a nice tip.
Paul67 – From what I have seen of Juventus this season they are not quite the typical Italian side. They are a strong team and pacey who are a lot more direct than you would expect an Italian side to be.
This is the sort of style that suits us. I don’t think this tie is by any means cut and dried and many will be surprised just how close this ends up being.
Both teams will score in both legs….let’s see who concedes the least.
Tallybhoy. Hoopy Birthday.
To Juve, I say…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ToNJHgp-w
Up the Irons! HH
Any truth in the rumour that ‘the Yorkshireman’ has offered Juve free(!!!) use of Minty park as a training base during their stay here?
HH!!
Timsinohio
Good to see you have survived your trip and sesh with aw naw……enjoy your beer and god bless, hope to catch up with you sometime….real pint rather than cyber pint! HH
Remember to apply for CL tickets on Monday bhoys as you do not want to miss us in the final.
Some Italian sites claiming Neil Lennon is fretting as does not know his team and our defence will be a shambles with Rogne playing.
Their arrogance will be their undoing…
The final that is. The application process opens on Monday and you can apply for 2 tickets each in the ballot. Cheapest ticket 60 quid.
ASonOfDan ——
More reliable sources than TuttoSport have Vidal going to Bayern and Marchisio going to Real Madrid . Juve will then buy Verratti and Jovetic .
Marchisio has had a bad 2013 . Illness and an injury . He is said to be doubtful for Celtic Park.
Kikinthenakas. Will do mate. Look forward to sometime in March hopefully.
ASonOfDan @12 47 .
Which Italian sites ?
I hear there may be a new version of the famine song coming out,
“oh the famine’s starting,
we want to go home”k
Well you’d better hurry home peepil,
while you still have one to go to.
livibhoy
12:15 on 8 February, 2013
I heard that sally’s and others were strategically included in the fans figure …….. Wait ’til it ‘hits home’ that £22m wasn’t physically ‘paid’ for the shares….
LiviBhoy
1 of the 2 sevco fans in my work has bought shares.
He was a Rangers season ticket holder for years – and I think he is also a sevco season ticket holder these days.
QB
Subtract the k…bloody android.
LiviBhoy
12:24 on 8 February, 2013
I have a drink most days alongside THREE Rangers supporters who bought shares.
They are Ibrox regulars who have never shown me anything other than respect & are NOT loud-mouths by any stretch of the imagination.
I know well enough that there are rabid bigots in their support, but they are not some sub-species of humanity. They are our neighbours, workmates, etc…. Good, bad & indifferent like everybody else.
Tin hat firmly in place CSC.
TimsinOhio
A Hoops top is an International passport to friendship:))
Tallybhoy
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY birthday,
ps I read that yesterday but if chuck told me the sky was blue I would look up to double check :))
Till later, Grandson alert :))
Siesta time.
Tallybhoy
Happy Birthday, Many Happy Returns
South Of Tunis
These are good soundbites, Juve have possibly the strongest midfield in the World after Barca.
Every Juve player is top class and Celtic will have to be at their very best to get a 0-0 this week.
allmediascotland@allmedianews
Another month and another set of declining sales among daily and Sunday newspapers in Scotland: ANOTHER month an… http://bit.ly/WGUAaZ
Just love this!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBKGhOlJ8rM
Ps Where the hell are they getting all these horses??
Kilbowie Kelt
12:54 on 8 February, 2013
Well Said.
It is the Press that is manipulating them. Sky are exposing themselves for what they are.
The times are a changing but all we can do, IMO, is do our little bits.
I am really worried about Tuesday.
If we win i will be on the vino, but i am giving up booze for Lent so do i need to stop drinking at midnight?
thoughts?
what would Jesus do?
More woeful circulation results for the printed press today, with every major title taking an absolute walloping. We will shortly see titles closing I think. Remarkable to think that 15 years ago the Daily Record was selling 750,000 copies a day, and is now down to below one third of that, and dropping still.
Daily Mirror – 8.4 per cent drop = from 22,609 on average in January last year, to 20,710 last month;
Daily Record – 8.6 per drop = from 264,737 on average in January last year, to 242,012 last month;
Daily Star of Scotland – 15.9 per cent drop = 61,932 to 52,069;
The Scottish Sun – 11.3 cent drop = 319,864 to 283,865;
Scottish Daily Express – 9.1 per cent drop = 60,986 to 55,436;
Scottish Daily Mail – 5.7 per cent drop = 109,933 to 103,611;
Daily Telegraph – 4.4 per cent drop = 19,446 to 18,587;
Financial Times – 17.4 per cent drop = 3,292 to 2,718;
The Guardian – 11.3 per cent drop = 12,477 to 11,066;
i – 29.9 per cent up = 14,177 to 18,418;
Independent – 49.9 per cent drop = 6,225 to 3,119;
The Scotsman – 17.5 per cent drop = 38,844 to 32,035; and
The Times – 1.2 per cent drop = 18,842 to 18,618.
Meanwhile, the Sunday titles’ sales figures in Scotland were as follows:
Daily Star of Scotland – Sunday – 49.8 per cent down = 57,939 to 29,077;
Sunday Mail – 21.9 per cent down = 357,724 to 273,510;
Sunday Mirror – 50.1 per cent down = 40,993 to 20,442;
The People – 50.2 per cent down = 22,634 to 11,261;
Scottish Sunday Express – 19.8 per cent down = 39,845 to 31,948;
The Sunday Post – 19.3 per cent drop = 215,861 to 174,115;
Scottish Mail on Sunday – 8.4 per cent down = 98,710 to 90,458;
Independent on Sunday – 13 per cent down = 6,488 to 5,644;
The Observer – 13 per cent down = 16,699 to 14,521;
Scotland on Sunday – 24.4 per cent down = 48,388 to 36,597;
Sunday Telegraph – 3.6 cent down = 16,794 to 16,194; and
Sunday Times – 7.9 per cent down = 52,670 to 48,473.
Happy birthday Tallybhoy many happy returns
Danny Dyer @MrDDyer
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petec
Juve have been badly hit by injury/illness and loss of form . They were machine like in 2012, in 2013 they have looked like a team that has lost it’s mojo. They will not. be able to play their first pick 11 at Celtic Park .
They have a hard game tomorrow night . There is big animosity between Juve and Fiorentina.. Fiorentina will get stuck in . Big pressure on Juve to win the game —-that means they won’t be able to rest Pirlo and Marchisio . Pirlo played the first half v Holland . He looked utterly disinterested .