[SERIE A] Lazio 1 -1 JUVENTUS (1/18/09) (18 Viewers)

[Alen]

Juventus.com also confirms that Camoranesi and Chiellini won't make it for Sunday.
Grygera, Trezeguet, Salihamidzic, Knezevic and Zebina are also unavailable while Iaquinta's situation will be known tomorrow morning when the doctors will have the final say if he's 100% fit to play or not.

 

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[Azzurri7]

Some Stats

128 matches played between Lazio and Juve in Serie A.

Juventus won 64 of them 40 in Turin and 24 in Rome.

Draw 32, 16 in Turin and 16 in Rome.

 

[Ahmed]

Juventus.com also confirms that Camoranesi and Chiellini won't make it for Sunday.
Grygera, Trezeguet, Salihamidzic, Knezevic and Zebina are also unavailable while Iaquinta's situation will be known tomorrow morning when the doctors will have the final say if he's 100% fit to play or not.

Yikes...so Legro-Mellberg and Sali as the RB

 

[Alen]

Did you read my post, Ahmed?

 

[Ahmed]

so Legro-Ariaudo?

 

[jukazem]

so Legro-Ariaudo?

This is what you got after re-reading Alen's post? Who's playing right-back?

 

[Ahmed]

uh, I think it's obvious that would have to be Mellberg

 

[Alen]

so Legro-Ariaudo?

That's what i would do. I'm not a fan of the line-up Sadomin proposed, which has Molinaro as RB and De Ceglie as LB. It took light years for Molinaro to start playing ok, and combine well with Nedved. I'm pretty sure he'll be completely lost on the right side with Marchionni, and to mark Zarate on top of it. Plus i don't like De Ceglie on LB, especially as a defender.
I'd rather keep Molinaro on the left side, put Mellberg on the right side where he played really wll so far, and only add Ariaudo in the center next to Legro.

It was a bad timing to lose two starters from the defense. We're playing against a team whose power lies completely in the attack. Lazio's attack is like 99% of the team. They scored 29 goals so far, only 2 less than us and only 3 less than league's best attack this season.

With the defense we have atm, we simply must win the midfield and we must repeat the match against Udinese when we didn't let a ball pass through our midfield, which left Quag, Di Natale and Pepe jobless.

 

[Ahmed]

MF is a done deal, for sure Momo and Il Cobra will own them...I am just worried that Lazio's FW line may get the better of our not-so-amazing backline...Pandev/Zarate is definitely a much tougher proposition that Dica/Plasmati

 

[Alen]

And if you add Rocchi in the mix (who always seems to be a pain in the ass for us), the job of our defenders gets even tougher.

 

[jukazem]

uh, I think it's obvious that would have to be Mellberg

My bad bias. Was thinking why can't Ariaudo play RB for quite some-time now and am a bit uncomfortable having such a big guy as Melberg as RB- have this feeling that he won't be fast enough.

 

[JCK]

Mellberg - Legro - Molinaro - De Ceglie

 

[Ahmed]

And if you add Rocchi in the mix (who always seems to be a pain in the ass for us), the job of our defenders gets even tougher.

yea effin' Rocchi too...well atleast we have Gigi back to make a couple of stunners on Sunday

 

[Ahmed]

Mellberg - Legro - Molinaro - De Ceglie

and Poulsen isn't fully fit either, we could have used him as CB next to Legro

 

[Mark]

Ariaudo or Poulsen at the back.

 

[Alen]

Mellberg - Legro - Molinaro - De Ceglie

Lol, i think Molinaro will be the worst CB of all time. Just watch him during corner kicks. He doesn't jump and doesn't head the ball. He can't read the game well enough to play in CB and he's not a good tackler.

Damn, this sounded so Cronios-ish.

 

[Alen]

and Poulsen isn't fully fit either, we could have used him as CB next to Legro

Ariaudo or Poulsen at the back.

Oh, of course, how could i forget. He played CB for Sevilla in the first part of last season and i was left speachless when i watched him play CB against Milan. He was dribbled once by Inzaghi (that was Inzaghi's only successful dribbling in his career) but he did the rest of the job like Baresi in his prime.

 

[Sadomin]

Poulsen's not fit yet, is he?

Another option would be to put Zanetti there. Positionally he's capable and I've seen him win plenty of areal duels. Question marks on his turning pace, though.

 

[Mark]

Dabo: "Today we can now start playing equally, now if the referee makes a mistake he does it in good faith"

F*CK YOU bench player!

 

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