[Coppa Italia, 1/4 final] Lazio 0-1 Juventus [20th January, 2016, 20:45 CET] (5 Viewers)
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Muscular performance from Juve to get through that.
Wasn't a lot of quality in the game in the first hour, but Juve gradually ground Lazio down.
Was very hard for Juve to play through Lazio with the way they were organised in the first half as Lazio blocked up the midfield very well and forced Juve to play difficult passes to start moves.
Juve were still able to pose a threat because there was always the option of playing into the channels for the strikers and they were frequently two-on-two with the centre-halves as Lazio chose to take that risk in order to compete with Juve higher up the pitch.
Lazio chickened out a bit in the second half by changing to something closer to a 3-4-3 (5-4-1). That made it harder for Juve to expose the centre-halves, but easier to start moves and get into decent attacking positions.
It still needed someone to take the responsibility to move the ball longer and faster for Juve in order to find meaningful space and Pogba did that with his cross-field ball on the goal.
Was only one winner once Juve got ahead.
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Lazio had one chance in the game and it was entirely down to Caceres getting wrong side of Keita.
Wasn't a lot of quality in the game in the first hour, but Juve gradually ground Lazio down.
Was very hard for Juve to play through Lazio with the way they were organised in the first half as Lazio blocked up the midfield very well and forced Juve to play difficult passes to start moves.
Juve were still able to pose a threat because there was always the option of playing into the channels for the strikers and they were frequently two-on-two with the centre-halves as Lazio chose to take that risk in order to compete with Juve higher up the pitch.
Lazio chickened out a bit in the second half by changing to something closer to a 3-4-3 (5-4-1). That made it harder for Juve to expose the centre-halves, but easier to start moves and get into decent attacking positions.
It still needed someone to take the responsibility to move the ball longer and faster for Juve in order to find meaningful space and Pogba did that with his cross-field ball on the goal.
Was only one winner once Juve got ahead.
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Lazio had one chance in the game and it was entirely down to Caceres getting wrong side of Keita.
Because he made a bad error to allow Keita Lazio's only chance.
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Thought Lichsteiner was okay, but wondered at the time if Zaza was onside given the way he appeared to be coming back the way by the time he got the ball from Pogba.
Haven't seen anything to clarify that, but think he was probably okay.
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Neto -
Caceres 6
Bonucci 6.5
Chiellini 6
Lichtsteiner 6.5
Sturaro 7
Marchisio 6.5
Pogba 6
Alex Sandro 7
Zaza 7
Morata 6
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This is for that guy on the Milan forum who wondered if Lichtsteiner was offside or not last night:
Caceres 6
Bonucci 6.5
Chiellini 6
Lichtsteiner 6.5
Sturaro 7
Marchisio 6.5
Pogba 6
Alex Sandro 7
Zaza 7
Morata 6
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This is for that guy on the Milan forum who wondered if Lichtsteiner was offside or not last night:
Haven't seen anything to clarify that, but think he was probably okay.
