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GALATASARAY 1 - 0 JUVENTUS Wesley Sneijder (85′) December 10, 2013 - 8:45 PM Türk Telekom Arena Istanbul Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal) Attendance:‬ 37375‎ Hell froze over for Juventus Juventus were eliminated from the Champions League following their bizarre final Group B clash away at Galatasaray. Luca Cetta reviews the action. Dec 11, 2013 Going into a big match you hope for any omen or advantage over your opponent. Juventus were hoping their clash in Istanbul against Roberto Mancini’s Galatasaray would end in a similar manner to their last do-or-die European group encounter 12 months ago against Shakhtar Donetsk. Instead, the Bianconeri were dealt a card similar to the one experienced in Perugia 13 years ago, that fateful final day of the 1999-2000 Serie A season. http://markting10.nl/ It will go down as one of the most chaotic Champions League contests of all time. The action at the Turk Telekom Arena verged towards the realms of Test cricket, with play spread over multiple days. It was Galatasaray versus Juventus, versus the elements. On Tuesday the snow fell. And fell. Play did commence, but after further snow and hail, the game was halted just past the half hour mark. During those 30 minutes Juventus looked comfortable against a Gala outfit which needed to take maximum points. The hosts - playing in front of their typically fervent home support - mustered little to worry Gianluigi Buffon, while Fernando Llorente had Juve’s best chance. Play was expected to be halted temporarily. As the groundsmen cleared the pitch, the match was abandoned. Determining a restart time for Wednesday was something of a calamity in itself. UEFA decided a time, only to then be told by local police to shift it back an hour. http://markting10.nl/ The groundsmen chopped up the pitch in clearing the snow and come the resumption of play, it was even worse than when the abandonment was called. It looked a potato field in some sections, the ball often stuck in the mud. How play was allowed to resume is something only UEFA can answer. The governing body should be held accountable for 60 minutes of football more suited to amateur level proceedings. Their handling of the situation was fittingly amateurish. “We certainly tried to have the game postponed and met with the UEFA delegate beforehand, but nobody wanted to listen,” stated Antonio Conte afterwards. “Roberto Mancini said it was dangerous and I agreed with him, I said ‘I think so.’ I don’t think my English is that bad...” For what football could be played, it called for an hour of determination and concentration. Both sides were cagey, understandably so, once play resumed for the final 15 minutes of the first half. Neither wanted to make a mistake that would equal an even greater challenge after the interval. http://markting10.nl/ Juve could rely on nabbing a draw and qualifying. Gala had to go for it. They did so with greater attacking intent in the second half, nonetheless the Bianconeri stood firm and aside from one fine Buffon save, were not really tested. That was until Wesley Sneijder was on the end of Didier Drogba’s knockdown to score with five minutes remaining. Gala advance with seven points, Juve drops down to the Europa League with six. For the Turkish club it’s a great achievement. They advanced from a group containing Real Madrid and Juventus, changed Coach during the group stage and recovered from an initial 6-1 drubbing against Real. Conte also rightly noted his side should never have been in this situation to begin with. “I will say our mistake was to get to the last game and play everything here.” Juventus can only blame themselves for sitting on two points from the opening two games. They were punished by Copenhagen on Matchday 1 and after battling from a goal down against the Turks in Turin, conceded cheaply moments later. From there it proved an uphill climb. http://markting10.nl/ Once European football resumes in the new year, Juventus will be in the Round of 32 in the Europa League. The Final will be played at the Juventus Stadium, so that is certainly an aim. But it’s merely a consolation, both football-wise and financially. No matter the circumstances, it’s an embarrassing exit and now they’ll have to make-do with the poorer European cousin.

GALATASARAY 1 - 0 JUVENTUS Wesley Sneijder (85′) December 10, 2013 - 8:45 PM Türk Telekom Arena Istanbul Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal) Attendance:‬ 37375‎ Juve out after Galatasaray loss Juventus crashed out of the Champions League after going down 1-0 to Galatasaray thanks to a late Wesley Sneijder goal. Dec 11, 2013 After a severe hail and snow storm saw the match abandoned on Tuesday evening, the team re-emerged this afternoon at the Turk Telecom Arena to play out the remaining 58 minutes. The Bianconeri knew that a draw would see them into the Last 16, whilst Roberto Mancini’s team were going all-out for the three points that would guide them into the knockout round. http://markting10.nl/ The pitch, after a full-scale operation to clear the snow, was in a terrible condition, with the ball constantly stopping in the slush. The players were coping admirably, but in the conditions, both teams resorted to long balls. It was Antonio Conte’s men who got off to the brighter start though, almost opening the scoring after 36 minutes, only for Stephan Lichtsteiner’s deflected cross to just clip the side-netting. It was Carlos Tevez though, who went closest to breaking the deadlock with just four minutes of the half remaining – the Argentine forward broke past Aurelien Chedjou inside the area, but slipped before he could get a clean shot away on goal. http://markting10.nl/ After the break, the Old Lady were once again quickest out of the blocks, but the pitch was playing havoc with the intensity of the game. Thick mud was stopping the ball in its tracks, and neither side could properly build up a head of steam and dominate the match. Paul Pogba fired from long-range, as did Leonardo Bonucci, but both efforts were easily dealt with by Fernando Muslera. Roberto Mancini’s men weren’t ready to just roll over however. Sneijder tried his luck from distance on 55 minutes, but Gianluigi Buffon saw the shot go well wide of his right-hand post, and just moments later, Didier Drogba fired from the edge of the area, but the Italy international got down well to push the ball away. http://markting10.nl/ Despite Tevez’s best efforts, neither team really looked like breaking the deadlock, as the quagmire-like surface forced the game to become an attritional, midfield battle. The Argentine’s jinking runs and clever movement weren’t paying dividends in the mud, and it was just a solitary backheel for a Claudio Marchisio shot that lit up the final stages. Amazingly though, seemingly out of nowhere, the Turkish side got their noses in front. Drogba headed a long ball down to Sniejder on the edge of the area, who shot low across Buffon and into the bottom left-hand corner of the net. The Bianconeri couldn’t get themselves back into the game, ending the group stage in third place and exiting the competition. http://markting10.nl/ Galatasaray 1-0 Juventus Scorers: Sneijder 85 (G) Galatasaray: Muslera; Chedjou, Semih Kaya, Gokhan Zan; Eboue (Bulut 80), Felipe Melo, Selcuk Inan, Riera; Sneijder (Ceyhun 92); Drogba, Burak Yilmaz Juventus: Buffon; Barzagli, Bonucci (Giovinco 90), Chiellini; Lichtsteiner, Vidal, Pogba, Marchisio (Quagliarella 87), Asamoah; Tevez, Llorente

GALATASARAY 1 - 0 JUVENTUS Wesley Sneijder (85′) December 10, 2013 - 8:45 PM Türk Telekom Arena Istanbul Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal) Attendance:‬ 37375‎ 'This is not football' - Juventus exit Champions League after a game that should never have been played The Turkish outfit achieved their objective of reaching the last 16, but did so in the most ridiculous of conditions at the Turk Telecom Arena. Dec 11, 2013 COMMENT By Kris Voakes | International Football Correspondent It all started at 20:45 CET on Tuesday with a green pitch, a white ball and the hope of a Champions League barnstormer to come. It ended at 15:19 on Wednesday with a browny-white pitch, an orange ball and a continent of short-changed football fans. http://markting10.nl/ Galatasaray qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League thanks to the 1-0 win they earned from their extended clash in Istanbul, while Juventus will believe that their shot at the knockout stage was massively compromised, and rightly so. After Tuesday evening’s abandonment in the 31st minute, it was obvious that Uefa would want the remainder of the game to be completed as soon as possible. Had the final hour been postponed until next week, there would have been the risk of Monday’s draw being affected, amongst other things. The pressure on referee Pedro Proenca to see the game to its end on Wednesday afternoon left fans across Europe watching a poor imitation of the match that had been so anticipated. These were two teams primed to play the most important game of their seasons, but upon the resumption they were simply taking part in an absolute farce. http://markting10.nl/ With an icy base, the pitch played like a local park surface that had seen all four seasons in the space of an hour. In some of the corners the ball ran true, but elsewhere it was impossible to read the roll of the ball at all. Within seconds of the restart, it was clear that the players were simply hoping to get the game over with and get out of there, such was the difficulty in judging passes correctly. This was not what big-game European football should be about. When the game reached half-time – nearly 18 hours after kick-off – Galatasaray’s Didier Drogba and Juve coach Antonio Conte immediately approached Proenca. “This is not football,” Conte appealed, and he was exactly right. The hail may have stopped, but the pitch conditions were even worse on Wednesday than they had been at the time of the original abandonment the previous night. This season, we have seen Benfica-Olympiakos played on a pool of water and now Gala-Juventus carried out on an icy quagmire. For a competition that is meant to showcase the very best that football has to offer, it does a fair old job of undermining the sport at times. http://markting10.nl/ Even Galatasaray coach Roberto Mancini conceded at full time that the game should never have been played. "It was better not to play the game. It was dangerous for the players and you couldn’t play football," the ex-Inter boss confessed to Sky Italia. Conte agreed: "You couldn't play football on this pitch. It has penalised us enormously. It is not just." The Champions League is meant to be better than this.

GALATASARAY 1 - 0 JUVENTUS Wesley Sneijder (85′) December 10, 2013 - 8:45 PM Türk Telekom Arena Istanbul Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal) Attendance:‬ 37375‎ Sneijder sends Mancini's men into the knockouts The Dutchman turned home a precise finish in the final five minutes as Antonio Conte's side were sent crashing out of the Champions League. Dec 11, 2013 Galatasaray sealed their place in the last 16 of the Champions League in dramatic style as Wesley Sneijder's late goal saw them beat Juventus 1-0 on Wednesday. http://markting10.nl/ The Dutchman latched on to Didier Drogba's flick to fire low past Gianluigi Buffon in the closing minutes as Roberto Mancini's side battled past the Bianconeri in treacherous conditions in Istanbul. The fixture was halted after 31 minutes on Tuesday due to freak snow storms, with play resuming on Wednesday afternoon. On a heavy, muddy pitch, both sides were largely limited to direct passages of play when the game restarted, with Juventus coach Antonio Conte appearing very unhappy with the match officials at the break, presumably due to the condition of the playing surface. http://markting10.nl/ Fernando Llorente and Carlos Tevez had both been recalled to a Juve side missing injured forward Mirko Vucinic (knee), while Sneijder made his first start since November 1 for Galatasaray after shaking off a recurring thigh problem. The visitors had carved out the only clear-cut chance prior to Tuesday's suspension in play, Llorente going close after good work from Arturo Vidal, but it was Galatasaray who started stronger when play got back under way in Turkey. Drogba and Sneijder both probed well for the hosts, without threatening the goal, before Llorente and Tevez linked impressively, only for the former to lose his footing as both sides struggled with the conditions. http://markting10.nl/ Referee Pedro Proenca drew the half to a close after 14 minutes of play, and it was Juve who attacked first following the interval as Leonardo Bonucci fired over with an effort from distance early in the second period. Drogba did well to shield the ball in an advanced position at the other end, allowing Sneijder to fire wide, with the Ivorian then forcing a smart right-handed save from Gianluigi Buffon following a vicous effort. Claudio Marchisio saw an attempt on goal saved after a rare flowing move down the left in the 79th minute before Juve's defence, which boasts seven consecutive clean sheets in serie A, was finally breached with five minutes left. http://markting10.nl/ Drogba headed a long ball into Sneijder's path, with the Netherlands international cooly firing past Buffon. The hosts almost made it 2-0 late on but Burak Yilmaz was denied by a goalline intervention from Giorgio Chiellini, with the final whistle prompting joyous scenes a matter of seconds later. Galatasaray's three points moves them into second behind Real Madrid and into the last 16 draw, with two-time winners Juventus now in the Europa League.

Manchester City's Kolarov not a Juventus target, insists Marotta The Italian champions have dismissed reports that they are considering a swoop for the Serbia international during the winter transfer window. Dec 11, 2012 Juventus general director Giuseppe Marotta has made it clear that the Serie A leaders are not interested in signing Manchester City defender Aleksandar Kolarov. http://markting10.nl/ The 28-year-old is again being linked with a move to the Bianconeri having allegedly attracted the attention of the Italian champions during the summer. However, Marotta has insisted that Juventus are not considering a January swoop for the Serbia international. "Kolarov is a player of absolute value," he told Mediaset. "However, there is no negotiation taking place at the moment and we have no intention of starting one up. http://markting10.nl/ "We are not interested in signing him." Kolarov joined Manchester City from Lazio three years ago and is under contract to the Premier League club until June 2015.

No, intendevo dire che anche i turchi non hanno fatto grandi prestazioni (come e peggio di noi) ma sono passati ugualmente.

Dico solo che i turchi si sono qualificati avendo subito 3 sconfitte e 10 goal dal Real.

Siamo nei guai.

Sneijder nano malefico!

Turchi in bambola.

Umut Bulut in t'o Mazz.

Calmo Felipe che siete quasi in Europa League.

Nano Sneijder fá il cattivo.

Un turco in campo con i guanti alla Mastro Geppetto...

Tevez, la classe in mezzo al fango.

Burak into' Maz!!!!

L'importante é che finisca 0-0.

Giocatore turco fermato dal fango.

Eboue parte da fuori dal campo.

Non si comincia a centrocampo.

I turchi amano le maniere forti ....

La rinvieranno a domani.

E pensare che questi vogliono entrare nella EU.

Hai ragione. C'é ancora qualcuno che non ha capito che sono loro che devono vincere. A noi lo 0-0 va benissimo.

GALATASARAY - JUVENTUS December 10, 2013 - 8:45 PM Türk Telekom Arena Istanbul Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal) Galatasaray-Juventus to kick off at 14:00CET as planned European football's governing body has made it clear that Tuesday's postponed clash in Istanbul will be played out on Wednesday afternoon. Dec 11, 2013 Uefa has confirmed that the Champions League encounter between Galatasaray and Juventus at the Turk Telekom Arena will resume on Wednesday at 14:00 CET. http://markting10.nl/ There were doubts as to whether the crucial Group B encounter would go ahead due to the adverse weather conditions in Istanbul that prompted the postponment of Tuesday's game, but it's now been made clear that the pitch is in good enough condition for the game to go ahead. The match had been abandoned due to heavy snowfall in the Turkish capital, with referee Pedro Proenca ordering the players off the field in the 31st minute. Ground staff entered the Ali Sami Yen Spor Kompleksi pitch to clear the lines but play was ultimately unable to resume, as both captains and the match officials agreed that the pitch had become dangerous to continue. http://markting10.nl/ The game will therefore resume on Wednesday from the 32nd minute, with the score 0-0. Juventus need a point to join group winners Real Madrid in the knockout phase, while a Galatasaray victory would see the hosts claim second place at the expense of the Italian champions.