[Serie A] JUVENTUS 4-1 Lazio (August 31, 2013) (36 Viewers)
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Some very good stuff from Juve last night, though Lazio's defending was poor.
Not many teams will be able to live with Juve if they play with the pace and intensity they showed prior to the Lazio goal.
However, the main thing that I liked was how it appeared Juve had specific plans to take advantage of Lazio's weaknesses, where previously Juve have shown little inclination to adjust their plan of attack for different opponents. Lazio are always good (or at least they were last season) at making it very difficult for players to find space between their defence and midfield, so it was good to see Juve looking to play longer in order to make Lazio turn and try to expose their indifferent central defenders, instead of just trying to delicately pick their way through Lazio's strong midfield.
Only criticism would have to be the number of long-range shots Juve allowed Hernanes and Candreva.
Generally, I don't give a toss about allowing people to shoot from miles out, but those two are just too good at it to keep allowing them time and space to get shots away.
The Juve midfield had to be far more aggressive in stepping forward to close them down.
With Lazio only playing Klose against Juve's back three - and Klose showing no inclination to run behind Juve - the defence then shouldn't have been afraid to step up behind the midfield when it moved to close Hernanes and Candreva so as to make sure space wasn't opened up for balls to be played in to Klose's feet. Or if the defence were afraid of the space behind them, one of the three could have stepped up behind the midfield into a classic defensive midfield position, leaving one centre half to mark Klose and one to play sweeper.
Not many teams will be able to live with Juve if they play with the pace and intensity they showed prior to the Lazio goal.
However, the main thing that I liked was how it appeared Juve had specific plans to take advantage of Lazio's weaknesses, where previously Juve have shown little inclination to adjust their plan of attack for different opponents. Lazio are always good (or at least they were last season) at making it very difficult for players to find space between their defence and midfield, so it was good to see Juve looking to play longer in order to make Lazio turn and try to expose their indifferent central defenders, instead of just trying to delicately pick their way through Lazio's strong midfield.
Only criticism would have to be the number of long-range shots Juve allowed Hernanes and Candreva.
Generally, I don't give a toss about allowing people to shoot from miles out, but those two are just too good at it to keep allowing them time and space to get shots away.
The Juve midfield had to be far more aggressive in stepping forward to close them down.
With Lazio only playing Klose against Juve's back three - and Klose showing no inclination to run behind Juve - the defence then shouldn't have been afraid to step up behind the midfield when it moved to close Hernanes and Candreva so as to make sure space wasn't opened up for balls to be played in to Klose's feet. Or if the defence were afraid of the space behind them, one of the three could have stepped up behind the midfield into a classic defensive midfield position, leaving one centre half to mark Klose and one to play sweeper.
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Recordings during the match. I suck at it, but yeah, it's something 
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Can anyone tell me how to upload pictures that are saved on my laptop? Sounds like a really stupid question but i really don't know.
. Can anyone tell me how to upload pictures that are saved on my laptop? Sounds like a really stupid question but i really don't know.
