SEMI-FINALS Coppa LAZIO-JUVENTUS, Tuesday 03-03-09

check in Laziocity the CN pics !!! G-R-A-N-D-E

Of lets forget manfre because hes almost history.
I saw the game for the first time from TV and it was nice :)
And i also saw that mr. Lippi and the predisent of FIGC were also sitting in front of Lotito.
And the reporter was something speaking about Amauri with Lippi. I think the only thing Lippi saw is that Foggia is needed in the National Team

Let's not get too carried away with this performance. As Sgt. Pepper pointed out, we were only excellent for 35 minutes and in my opinion, we were lucky that Juve didn't kill us in the first half. If we play like we did in the first half in Turin, we will be 2 or 3 goals down at half time.

I was much more impressed with our games against Lecce and Bologna. Ok, the opposition there was hardly fantastic but we delivered professional performances, grabbing a goal in the first half and killing the game in the second. We can't play the kind of game we did in the second half last night every week. No team in the world can turn in an effort like that each and every week.

However, there is much to be optimistic about these days. Forza Lazio!

WE have a quote: on a gifted horse you don't count his teeth. SO we were good, we have good result and BASTA.
Forza Lazio give us Napoli now.

LazioS70 wrote:

Who were the bad boys? Only rossi and manfre. Mauri is very slow but he made some good passes and ruined so narrowly an 300% chance.
De Silvestri was also very weak :(

You must be kidding. What did Lollo and Mauri do wrong? Mauri was the man who changed our game. After his entrance Lazio started to fight.. No matter he missed few shots (Foggia and Rocchi also missed). Manninger must be blamed for that, not Mauri or other player. But I say once more, Mauri changed our squad, so he can't be that bad how you're trying to say. About Lollo, I don;t remember any crucial mistake he has done on the pitch. The main task was to defend our goal, and he did. He couldn't do much because Juventus weren't taking us into pressure so there wasn't much job for our defenders.

Umm, what's wrong with winning 2-1 against Juventus? Did anyone really think we'd shutout Juventus? I figured we'd give up a goal. Thank God it wasn't 2 away goals. So, I'm very satisfied with winning 2-1. Sure, 3-1 would be ideal or winning 1-0, but the odds were strongly against us winning 2-1. Losing or drawing were probably the best odds for Lazio, so IMO, we did very well.

I believe we'll get an away goal in Turin. We will have to make sure we hold Juve in check.

It's going to be hard, but if we can repeat our 2nd half in Turin, we'll move onward.

As for the players...MAMA MIA, FOGGIA!!! Brilliant as always. Rocchi...my Captain...your heart can not be questioned. Ever. Pandev...not the best 1st half, but you were a madman in the 2nd half...loved it. The rest did what they had to do, but Pandev, Foggia and Rocchi...you all were inspired yesterday.

Defensively speaking we had more problems on the right than on the left.
Foggia can't play defense, that side was exposed, Nedved could run down straight to face Lichtsteiner one on one and Siviglia couldn't help out because he had to mark Iaquinta all the time. This is how we conceded.
Fortunately Amauri had a day off so Crib was able to help out when push came to shove. Kolarov did very well, and Manfre was solid on that left side, he even had some charges down the line.

I almost broke my keyboard when Matuzalem had that crash with someone when he was already on a yellow card, we escaped disaster narrowly that time, it was almost Fiorentina all over again. What a brilliant assist to Rocchi, I hope there's more where that came from.

To Pandev critics, I counted 6 fouls on him in the first half alone, he gets a hell of a beating every game, I can only imagine how his legs must feek in the last 10 minutes of the game. And still he pulls that wonderful goal out of nowhere.

Nota bene, Sissoko and Chiellini are bastards.

Great win! Great fans! Great atmosphere!

FORZA LAZIO PER SEMPRE!

now I see the pass to Rocchi was made by Matuzalem. It was just brilliant !

If you think Lollo was OK then its youre decision and opinion. Mauri would have changed the game even if hes havind the worst day of his life. He changed manfre out...remember. I didnt say he was bad...hes a bit sleepy and gave some ball away with simple mistakes....that goes also to Lollo. He playes much better then he did yeterday.
The main thing is we won and thats it.


Forza Lazio!!!

Foggia - Ledesma - Matuzalem - Meghni

THIS IS AN AMAZING MIDFIELD LINE!!! Did you guys realise it??

Forza Lazio wrote:

Foggia - Ledesma - Matuzalem - Meghni

THIS IS AN AMAZING MIDFIELD LINE!!! Did you guys realise it??

totaly agree !!! but if we use that formation , that means we use 4-4-2 .. so we have to pick 2 FW (pandev / zarate / rocchi) both of them are good , but i dont know who should be played in the first 11

LazioS70 wrote:

How the fuck was he good? He did exactly that much he could. Wasnt Meghni in doubt for the game then manfre would have dreamed of the game(but its rossi never say never)
For me it was an miracle that the went 2 times past juve. We had many chances to make a counter attack but manfre is so slow and weak in dribbling that he slowed always down. He blow 2-3 very good opportunities in the box corner. Its just lack of money....i dont wanna see him next year in Lazio. We are now a bigger and better team. Mauri is 1000% better than him.
Surely a lot saw he didnt do anything wrong but he didint do nothing good either...and he really cant do anything about it...because hes old and hes has never been a good player.
I wish we had 2 Foggias in our team


Forza Lazio!!!!!!!

apart from his clumsy clearance at the marchionni's goal?? believe it or not, he was good!! even foggia wasn't better than him at the first 30 minutes!! i admit mauri did a better job when he came to the field...but we shouldn't blame manfre (or muslera or other usual suspects) for everything... we should be objective at every game

well in marchionni's goal i think we could blame lichtsteiner and foggia too because they failed to prevent the good cross from their side... manfre did a marvelous job in this early part of the game, he outrunned and outplayed juve's player when the other lazio players were starting the game nervously...

Foggia is naturally a left sided player but against Juventus he was used by Rossi on the right midfield spot.... he did very well, especially in the second half, but where do you feel he is better and more effective?

On the right or left, or even as a trequartista?

danielganx wrote:

Forza Lazio wrote:

Foggia - Ledesma - Matuzalem - Meghni

THIS IS AN AMAZING MIDFIELD LINE!!! Did you guys realise it??

totaly agree !!! but if we use that formation , that means we use 4-4-2 .. so we have to pick 2 FW (pandev / zarate / rocchi) both of them are good , but i dont know who should be played in the first 11

i think if we play with zarate in left winger could be great & in other side we can play with pandev & rocchi always, & the contact between them no continue more.

*goosebumps x 1000*

is the first from the juve game?

Bobbi wrote:

Foggia is naturally a left sided player but against Juventus he was used by Rossi on the right midfield spot.... he did very well, especially in the second half, but where do you feel he is better and more effective?

On the right or left, or even as a trequartista?

Well, he swithced sides during the game, and I think that is a good idea since Foggia is a threat everywhere and having him in form means that no defender can relax. A very good choice indeed. I think the major problem is not where he should play, but rather what other players should play in the midfield? I think that determins where Foggia get to play...but I prefer Foggia breaking in going for a shot rather than being the one sending in crosses....so treq or right...

Wow...look at the clips provoded by pazke...amazing curva with all those flags...

So wonderful curva . The best in the world!

Offcause it is, without doubt!

Forza IRR!

now that juve is out of cl they will be giving us a hard time in torino, expect a full squad.

who cares ! WE ARE LAZIO!