A much needed three points and two player that needed to get on the score sheet. Alessandro Matri, the former Cagliari player needed those two goals to boost his confidence, and after the absolute sitters he missed on his debut, this will help erase that from the fan's memories and hopefully ease his transition into a big club. And Luca Toni, well what can be said about the big target man... he has his uses and he just illustrated his point. He is a player that is prone to injury, so part of me was just praying that he didn't get injured, because God knows Juve's injury list is quite full as it is.
However I did see Juve making silly errors and giving the ball away in dangerous areas. This can be attributed to the way the conduct there defence, it is starting to become obvious that Gigi Del Neri is a fan of zonal marking, and because of this we are seeing Juve players clustering in similar position while an opposing player is left unmarked and allowed to get an opportunity to shot. Throughtout the game this was happening and because of this Juve weren't able to move forward and would often lose possession. If one player has the ball they will often need to pass it to a available player inorder to move the attack along, now this will not be possible if you're all standing in the same areas.
Fredrick Sorenson is still very young and inexperience. so he can be excused when he makes an error, but someone really needs to tell him because Inter will do everything in their power to exploit this. This game did have me tense up until the final whistle, I don't think I'll be able to handle the game against Inter. If they are to overcome the Nerazzurri, they are to continue working on defending set pieces and try to do more short passes and one twos, as when they did this they had their best chances to score. And most importantly, they should try to avoid making predictable long passes to the front men, as it was the quick short passes that helped them overcome Cagliari.
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