++ [ originally posted by Holdon
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When Lazio scored, I thought it was going to be one of those games, what on Earth was the defence doing?
Luckily,without playing well, we manged to keep going a claim a vital victory. The 1st half was dire - one of the worst of the season IMO, little creativity and what we did manage create was wasted (Zlatan to Del Piero, who blasted over springs to mind) Olivera's goal came out of nowhere really, poor golakeeping from Sereni.
Much more postive 2nd thankfully, where we were easily the better team. The substitution of Zalayeta for Del Piero was a good moved and required, we needed some more muscle up front.
All praise should rightfully go to Kapo, wonderful skill to dart in between 2 Lazio players and play a great near post pass for Zlatan to finsh wonderfully. Lazio reacted and through everything they had at us, but we mangaed to hang on for an important and well deserved 3 points.
Aca: No crying Dog today.