Juventus Season 2011-2012

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Serie A Week 10 - 29-10-2011 (8:45 p.m.)

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Mirko Vučinić (12′)

Maicon (28')

Claudio Marchisio (33′)

Giuseppe Meazza - San Siro Stadium - Milan

Referee: N. Rizzoli‎

Attendance: 75000‎

Boniek: It's the end for Inter

Oct 31, 2011

A winning era has come to an end at Inter and Riccardo Montolivo could be a part of their future, says Zibi Boniek.

The pundit, a former Polish international who played for Roma and Juventus in his career, made the suggestion after their 2-1 loss to Juve on Saturday.

"If Inter want a great future then the Nerazzurri will have to change many elements," Boniek told 90° Minuto.

"It's only normal that after you win so much that these things happen to a side," continued the former striker.

"There is the need to play football with emotion again.

"I don't see anyone in the side, apart from people like Javier Zanetti, who can give the team some energy and the desire to win."

Inter could make changes as soon as January and Boniek has suggested that they should bid for Montolivo.

"They could get him, maybe straight after Christmas, and he would be an ideal player for boss Claudio Ranieri."

Montolivo may be released by Fiorentina mid-season given that he will otherwise leave the club on a Bosman at the end of the campaign.

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Serie A Week 10 - 29-10-2011 (8:45 p.m.)

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Mirko Vučinić (12′)

Maicon (28')

Claudio Marchisio (33′)

Giuseppe Meazza - San Siro Stadium - Milan

Referee: N. Rizzoli‎

Attendance: 75000‎

The Scudetto loses a contender

There may be 87 more points on offer, but Week 10 has perhaps ended

realistic title ambitions for Inter. Rob Paton rounds up the action.

Oct 31, 2011

No-one is stating it directly and Claudio Ranieri and his players are flat out denying it, but Juventus' 2-1 win over Inter in Week 10 could have a significant bearing in ending the Nerazzurri's hopes of a credible title challenge.

As a game with consideration to what had preceded it in 2011-12, the Nerazzurri can reflect on a paradox of a performance. Putting in a display that their Coach rightly cited as demonstrating a higher level of determination and competitiveness through to the final whistle than previous in the season, they were still second best.

Where Ranieri risked a high defensive line, Antonio Conte had the players capable of regularly hitting it on the counter-attack. Where Inter had Wesley Sneijder playing balls over Juve's sometimes equally high defensive line, Inter did not have the same pace as their opponents in attack to take full advantage.

Paralleled, where Inter also looked to regularly provide balls into the box, Juve surprised everyone to win an uncharacteristically imperious 79 per cent of aerial duels – a season high by some margin. Interestingly as well, La giornalaccio rosa dello Sport remarked of Juve's greater fight in midfield, to not only have the attitude to constantly press their opponents and shut out space, but to also demonstrate the greater physical fitness between the two teams as the game came to a close.

In short, Juve were fitter and had the right type of players and collective attitude to expose Inter's weaknesses. Similarly, and perhaps frustratingly for the Nerazzurri faithful, Inter did not have the capacity to fully test aspects to Juve's play that still remained far from refined.

Those looser aspects to Juve's play were perhaps why the Turin side again repeated the message post-match that they themselves are not necessarily confirmed title challengers. However, post-match debate is on the worsening challenge of their opponents as Week 10's defeat statistically leaves Inter looking increasingly out of the fight.

La Beneamata's fifth defeat of this season has come three-and-a-half months earlier than their fifth defeat of last season. Whilst they were at one stage 13 points off the top of the table in 2010-11 compared with an 11-point deficit they are now faced with, Claudio Ranieri's Inter do not have two games in hand to fall back on as Leonardo's Inter had. Serie A have not had a club crowned as League champions after losing more than four games for the last 18 years.

Significantly, it is not the gap to Juve but to Milan that is causing concern. Eyes are being drawn to the respective Milanese sides' fixture lists from now until January 15's derby, with everything suggesting an extension of Milan's nine-point advantage by then is increasingly likely.

This renewed faith in Milan's capacity comes after a weekend performance that saw Massimiliano Allegri fall back on the collective experience rather than dynamism of his team. Where the Diavolo's renewed form has been glimpsed in recent games, a superior know-how came to the fore on Saturday evening to put a spirited but fault-ridden Roma to the sword. Indeed, Luis Enrique's men recorded more possession, more attempts on goal and were able to penetrate the opposition penalty box on more occasions, but it was Milan that capitalised when mistakes crept into the Giallorossi's play.

Three points also went to Catania for taking full advantage of Mario Santana's sending off for two yellows to consequently dominate their home match with Napoli. Despite the game being played on Saturday evening to accommodate an extra day's rest for the Azzurri's midweek Champions League participation, Walter Mazzarri again rested several players, particularly in defence. Vincenzo Montella's side are now level with the Partenopei, having lost just once so far this season.

Elsewhere, focus was on the future of two Coaches going into Week 10's Sunday afternoon fixtures. Where Sinisa Mihajlovic responded to the first must-win of a crucial double-header for Fiorentina with a 1-0 win over Genoa, Marco Giampaolo's Cesena fell 2-0 to Parma. Without a win all season and just three goals scored from 810 minutes of action, including just one in the last 615 minutes, his dismissal was the most inevitable of the season so far.

A third Coach who may find himself under slight scrutiny this coming week and ironically facing Mihajlovic next weekend is Mimmo Di Carlo. After a poor 4-1 defeat to Siena – the first time in over two-and-a-half years that the Robur have scored more than three times in a Serie A match – his Chievo are now without a win since September, subsequently slipping eight places in the League table.

It has pulled them into a relegation battle that involves Lecce and Novara after they couldn't be separated on Sunday, but remarkably for the time being does not involve Bologna. Three wins from Stefano Pioli's first four games sets things up nicely for his 'return' to Palermo.

The Rosanero, meanwhile, again lost away from home – this time to Udinese – to continue their Jekyll and Hyde progress under Devis Mangia. Despite winning every home game, the club have picked up just one point from a possible 15 away.

Indeed, where paradox sums up Inter's improved performance but worsened League situation and Palermo's mismatch of form, it also describes Lazio's similar disagreement between home and away fixtures. Fourteen teams have a better home record in the League, but after the Aquile's 3-0 win at Cagliari, no team is within five points of Lazio's away record.

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Serie A Week 10 - 29-10-2011 (8:45 p.m.)

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Mirko Vučinić (12′)

Maicon (28')

Claudio Marchisio (33′)

Giuseppe Meazza - San Siro Stadium - Milan

Referee: N. Rizzoli‎

Attendance: 75000‎

Heavy fines for Inter and Juventus

Oct 31, 2011

Inter and Juventus have been fined heavily for their fans' behaviour during the weekend's Derby d'Italia at San Siro.

Whilst a number of suspensions, warnings and fines were handed out today to players and Coaches in the wake of a busy weekend for Serie A's referees, the most significant punishments have been handed to Inter and Juventus.

This is in relation to their respective sets of supporters' behaviour during Saturday night's match.

The Nerazzurri have been fined

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Trezeguet: Juve can be champions

Nov 2, 2011

David Trezeguet says he wouldn

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There is no stopping Juventus, says Pavel Nedved

The former midfielder thinks Antonio Conte's men will stay at the summit

of the league as he sees good times coming back to Turin.

Nov 2, 2011

Juventus director Pavel Nedved believes the Turin club have what it takes to remain at the top of the Serie A table.

Antonio Conte's men are undefeated after nine games and have already beaten AC Milan and Inter this term.

Nedved is not surprised at the rate of progress in Turin and is expecting more in their pursuit of the Italian title.

"I am not surprised that Juve are at the top of the table," Nedved is quoted as saying on La Repubblica.

"Everyone feels this is something exceptional, but for me it is normal like it has always been.

"This season has turned out to be great for us thus far and we will not be stopping here."

The former Czech Republic international had words for captain Alessandro Del Piero who is expected to leave the club at the end of the current campaign.

"Del Piero is not going through a good situation. A player like him should always be playing. I do not like seeing him in the stands or on the bench," concluded Nedved.

Juventus meet Napoli in Serie A on Sunday night at the San Paolo.