Serie A: LAZIO - JUVENTUS, Sunday 18-01-09

I fancy our chances.

Take a look at Juve's form and tell me they're not due a loss. Plus, they were hardly outstanding today.

Ali Alkatiri wrote:

Caxi wrote:

I fancy our chances.

Take a look at Juve's form and tell me they're not due a loss. Plus, they were hardly outstanding today.

They are playing COPPA against Catania on Wednesday.

Let us hope some injuries or physical fitness problems.....

BTW, I was not so impressed with their performance yesterday. What make me worry is just our defence.

I agree Ali. If Diakite and Rozenhal has a really good day probably we can win the game.
I mean, one game they kill everything and the other it's totaly a mess hehe?

Considering their form, we stand a chance here.

think that Juve will find Sunday more important than Wednesday's Coppa
Juve are chasing Inter at -4, this gap was never so small like this the last months

I'm a bit concerned about this game to be honest. Juve need not be in top form to scrape a goal and win 1-0, this has been their trademark as long as I follow football.
They're not playing well, arguably, but in their last 11 Serie A encounters they have 10 wins and a single loss to Inter away. Add to that their success in european competitions, participation in which hasn't made a negative impact on their domestic form, and the Del Piero goal frenzy and you can call me worried. We can't hope for their game against Catania to be of any help to us.

On the other hand we're all over the place, no-one knows what to expect. Maybe this can be an advantage, element of surprise, a flash of brilliance from our talented strikers? They will not allow us to walk into the net with the ball like Reggina did.
I have full confidence in the midfield and attack. And our defense, well if we can manage without those horror mistakes we can hold our own. I expect nothing less than the defense that knocked Milan out of the coppa.

Not related to our game, but I consider Juve to be favorite to win the scudetto this year.

Amir wrote:

Considering their form, we stand a chance here.

Juventus:

W – W – W – W - W

Sturges wrote:

Juventus:

W – W – W – W - W

Its time to make an L there^)

I think we have every reason to be worried. Simply, our defence isn't good enough. Even giving away a silly foul within range and Alessandro Del Piero can score from a free kick. Amauri dominates in the air and has been great for them.

I think the tridente will cause their defence plenty of trouble. the advantage of the tridente is even when one of the strikers has a quiet game like Rocchi on Sunday, the opposition defence still has to mark them and keep them quiet, giving the other 2 more space.

tthe thing about Juve is their efficiency. Its easy to say they are due for a loss, but they have been winning even when they dont play too well. That's the sign of a champion team.. we need to stand up and improve to match them

but we are LA LAZIO and if there's anthing we know from supporting this team over the years, its that we can beat anyone on our day, and at home, we have an excellent chance to send a message to the rest of Serie A

SIAMO IN ATTESA PER I TRE PUNTI E UNA VITTORIA STREPITOSA

dunno about you all but I hate Juve, always have, TUTTA L'ITALIA LO SAAAAAAA
COME FACEVA A RUBARE
USAVA IL SUO CELLULARE
MOGGI CHIAMAVA E CARRARO RISPONDEVA
COMMANDIAMO IO E TE..

Sturges wrote:

Amir wrote:

Considering their form, we stand a chance here.

Juventus:

W – W – W – W - W

lol


but seriously if u see how they played against sienna they suck, i hope they have a very difficult match against catania

This is Juve, our record not as bad as vs Milan...
our attack is lethal, probably same or even abit better then Juve,
however, our defense is another thing
also, like Ali, I'm also hoping their coppa game will give us advantage

Diakite made a mistake against Reggina and if he's forced to be played against Juventus, he'd better be tough. Because Del Piero will make a lot of trouble.

My possible line-up
Carrizo-
Lichsteiner-Rozehnal-Diakite-Kolarov
Brocchi-Ledesma-Mauri
Zarate-Pandev-Rocchi

Hopefully , this time we will score most of our chances. Last year in Rome we looked good , but didn't manage to use what we have created.
At the expense of that , we let them to score with ease.

Lets see , if we've learned something from our games vs the big boys Milan , Inter where the situation was similar.

Anyone know if Chiellini is recovering to sunday eve? I hope not, if Mellberg plays I think we will manage to use our pace in attack to really disturb the juve defence

Ali Alkatiri wrote:

Last Season:Not played

Just a quick note for Ali - we did play them at home last season and lost 2-3, I'm sure you just forgot to put it in, seeing as your match information is always so detailed

With the 5-2 loss away we let in 8 to them last season and I am nervous again as we haven't really improved much in defence. Usampa, you are right about the chances we didn't take and build on, at least we have the ability to score goals but can we score more than they can? I really don't know what to think about our chances...

Namortsac, all I know is Buffon is back for the Coppa but haven't seen much about Chiellini, Ranieri said he didn't want to risk anyone for Siena after taking a while to get them back so I assume it'll be 50-50 against us?

I'll be on Olimpico for this game

Cant wait!!!!

If it were.........

Juventus:

L – L – L – L - L

Would that mean our chances for a loss would increase because they are due for a win...? I think not. Dont fool yourself into thinking teams are due for losses because they keep winning.

The reason they are WWWWW is because they are in red hot form, good teams win even when their performance is bad.

Make no mistake, this will be a tough one for us to win.

Kris wrote:

If it were.........

Juventus:

L – L – L – L - L

Would that mean our chances for a loss would increase because they are due for a win...? I think not. Dont fool yourself into thinking teams are due for losses because they keep winning.

you should learn about probability theory... yes they are due to loss... and I hope they will win against catania and that will make our probability to win becoming bigger. Remember Bologna, Udinese and Milan? they were L-L-L or more and they won or draw against us..

but anything is possible of course, even we could undefeated 10 times (?) consecutively in the season when we were number three in the table...

however this probability theory to win is only to make our team more confident against a scudetto contender like Juve.. and just remember this game is juve to lose and not us, and the pressure is way bigger for them no matter they feel confident because they keep winning

only thing that i want is pliz fogiiiaaaaaaaaa delio

Ali Alkatiri wrote:

Thank you Ed, I have edited...

I was still thinking about they were in Serie B....old man...

No problem, I really wish they were still in B!
It's no use thinking about all those probability theories, I'm still really nervous about this match...

Juventus is maybe the most underrated club in the world right now. They beat Real twice and are very compact side. In the hole seria A I think Juve is our worst nightmare. TO be honest I don't expect anything from this game coz it will be won on defense and that what we are lacking. It will be scary but even a draw will be superb .

I think this game not going on such our game with milan & inter, in that games we were really worse than them in tactic, player,... but against juve we are not really looser before game, in my opinion their player are not god, they have alex. amauri, buffon... dont forget we have zara, pandev, jpc... but the only thing that finalize the score is experienc, i remember often that we were more better than them but in the end they won, i think against juve win is in our hand, but against such inter if we try hard is not enough, if against juve our players be their selves and have more cocentration and try every minute till 90 on game, win is not out of reach

if we play our game we will not lose... Juve were lucky against Siena last round

Will the game be played 15.00 or 20.30 on sunday?

Rizmo wrote:

Will the game be played 15.00 or 20.30 on sunday?

20.30.

I remeber that last year Juve was lucky, they were not better then Lazio.
Del Piero scored two times beacuse the deefance were drunk but I think hehe we had the game under control.

Del Piero is scary but Zarate could make som trouble for Juve.
I hope that many laziali is going to the game, screaming the shi t out of the Juve players.
We need it!

FORZA LAZIO!!!