Quote from: Cnut237 on Today at 08:39:24 AM

Quote from: Karartma1 on Today at 08:18:11 AM

Barcelona deserved to win: I bet on Juventus winning and lost, very disappointing game by the bianconeri.

I thought Juve would win, too, even without Ronaldo. With all the chaos at Barcelona and the loss of some good players, and Messi being kept there against his will, and against the backdrop of that disastrous Bayern result last season, it's easy to see them as a team in freefall that has no chance of competing against the best teams in Europe... but that's clearly not the case, even when they are poor there is still a strong team there.

I can say that Juventus this season is not as strong as last season. They made some bad transfers imo, they let Pjanic and Douglas Costa go to other clubs but they did not get new players with equal skills. Especially Pjanic, he was the main actor of Juventus who control the game play as a midfielder but now Juventus has no player as good as him to control their game. Missing Ronaldo make the situation even worst, he is someone who can motivate their teammate, who push their teammate's spirit when they are down but there was no one who could act like him. On the other side, even though Barcelona also has some internal problem but they still have many good players compared to Juventus.