We always had problems facing Lazio. They were always a tough team, one of the toughest in seria A.
They can be physical and completely destroy a game simply by abusing such behavior. An ugly goalless game is totally within their reach.
We also used to be a strong team and at times we could abuse that superiority against the smaller teams.
But not against Lazio and in a lesser extend, against Milan.
Those two teams were also able to disable our air superiority.
Almost as efficiently as the EPL teams.
They had tall and strong players, able to provide with air space denial.
Therefore we could not even penetrate their defense from set pieces either.
Those set pieces saved us from similar situations, against the smaller teams.
For these reasons, it has been always particularly hard to face this team, despite us having the quality superiority at times.
They are not as strong as they used to be, but the same thing can also be said for us too.
They have preserved their spirit and so did we.
Indeed, i dont trust that this defense and esp without Chiellini and Sissoko, will resist against their very swift forwards.
Who can easily kill us off on counterattacks and even when we try to defend without one dedicated DM, as they have proved on the first leg.
If we hold back, we wont score, if we open up, we will concede at least one goal.
They have noticed our weakness when we open up and i am sure that they will abuse the vertical passes to exploit this weakness in our offside trap.
They know what to do to break us and we dont have the necessary tools to push them back for good.
They have the morale, form, the tactical and the score advantage.
Realistically we do need a miracle to overcome this object.
Conceding just one goal in 90' is a possibility, but not if we open up to score 3.
If we try a conservative approach, we will never have the time to score 3.
If we fire with every caliber from the start, we will concede more than 1.
If we play more than 90' our chances to concede one more goal increase by the minute. The numbers are on their side!
PS, i hope that CR will not be scared this time and wont give the order to fall back after we score the first goal, like he did in the first game, when we were dominating. IMO the 3-1 is our safest bet.
But he is such a p@ssy, he wont dare to risk that.
This act of cowardice was the reason we reached here from the first place...
And i would also prefer Manninger, instead of Buffon for this game...
This has turned out to be the game of the season for us!!
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