What a great game.. for Juve fans, although near the ends their were signs of laziness on behalf of the Juve players but Buffon was quick to stamp that out! Eventhough the stats may indicate that the ball possession was more or less equal, in the first half it was all Juventus pressure and it showed with them scoring all three goals with 20 minutes.
The first goal came on the 11th minute from a free kick masterfully taken by Andrea Pirlo. Who looked slightly afraid when he scored and saw a large group of players running towards him to celebrate! One does wonder Pirlo will be okay for the mid week Champions League match against Shacktar Donesk. But Juventus' midfield is bursting with talent with the likes of Arturo Vidal, Emmanuel Giaccherini, Asamoah, Paul Pogba and Claudio Marchisio, the latter had a number of occasions to make the lead that much stronger yet the crossbar and Steeklenburg's fingertips denied him.
The second goal came in the form of a penalty in the 16th minute which was calmly put away by the new penalty taker... Arturo Vidal. The third goal was much needed to say the least as rumour go flying around that he may go to AC Milan. Alessandro Matri broke away and got another goal 3 minutes later, although for a split second it did look as though the keeper did enough to steer it off course, yet it was to power and spun into the back of the net. So Juve were up by 3 goals before halftime and could have had more but luck was not their for Mirku Vucinic and he didn't have the pleasure of scoring against his former employers.
This is the trouble if you go all attack but forget about the defence. Roma did get a goal back in the second half with a Pablo Osvaldo penalty in the 69th minute and Roma had enough time to make a dramatic comeback but misses from Osvaldo and Erik Lamela meant that Juve could compound their grief even further, Sebastian Giovinco go on the end of a surprising;y good run by Andrea Barzargli to make it 4-1.
A wonderful group effort, yet I did see some yobbish behaviour from Leonardo Bonnuci that I'm sure Buffon will sort out!
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