Too many errors

Simon Basten

Nov 13, 2022

3 min read

2022-23 Season

Game 15, Serie A

Sunday, November 13, 2022

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Turin, Allianz Stadium

Juventus Lazio 3-0

Lazio dominate possession but make a number of individual errors allowing Juventus to win comfortably

The teams

Maurizio Sarri for the last game of 2022 had had to leave Ciro Immobile, Mattia Zaccagni, Manuel Lazzari and Patric in Rome. Lazio, as seen in the last couple of games, had also been running on empty. Compared to the Thursday night game against Monza in came Luka Romero, Toma Basic, Elseid Hysaj and Danilo Cataldi. The Biancocelesti were physically and mentally fatigued. Juventus on the other hand had important players ready to return from injury and had renewed enthusiasm following an appalling start to the season.

The match

Juventus began much better than Lazio and in the 6th minute Moise Kean had a chance but his shot was just wide. Five minutes later, great pass from Nicolò Fagioli to Filip Kostic on the left. Once in the box, ball back to Fagioli, unmarked, central, at the edge of the box, Ivan Provedel saved.

From this point Lazio took control of the game. Lots of passes, attempts to find the gap in the Juve defence. To no avail. The Biancocelesti were never dangerous despite having 61% possession. This had been a similar script to the recent two games against Monza and the Derby.

The Bianconeri were just waiting for Lazio’s mistake. Which came in the 41st minute. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic lost the ball in the Juventus half. Adrien Rabiot lifted it over the Lazio defence and off went Kean. Provedel came way too far out and the Italian forward’s lob, from a tricky position, gave Juventus the lead.

Second half

In the 49th minute, Kostic on the left to Arkadiusz Milik free as a bird, but his shot was saved by Provedel on the front post.

In the 54th minute Milik stole the ball from Cataldi, Manuel Locatelli to Kostic again who shot, Provedel saved but Kean had a comfortable tap in for the 2-0.

At the point Sarri changed a few pieces. In came Luis Alberto and Matias Vecino for Cataldi and Basic.

In the 61st minute Lazio had their first shot at goal. On the right, Hysaj to Milinkovic-Savic to Pedro who managed to reach Luis Alberto in the centre of the box. His shot was weak and saved comfortably by Wojciech Szcesny.

In the 63rd minute Angel Di Maria replaced Juve's hero of the day Kean and a minute later Pedro had a chance for Lazio on the left. After going into the box past a couple of defenders he could not put any power in his shot which was saved by the Juve keeper.

Nothing much of interest happened from then on and the only thing worth noting were the substitutions. Between the 65th and 85th minute in came Enrico Chiesa and Leandro Paredes for Kostic and Locatelli for Juventus while Lazio replaced Hysaj, Romero and Milinkovic-Savic with Gila, Matteo Cancellieri and Marcos Antonio.

In the 89th minute, Di Maria to Chiesa on the left, cross into the middle of the box, Alessio Romagnoli went the wrong way and Milik made it three for Juventus.

Lazio had a belated reaction. In the second minute of overtime Vecino’s shot from just outside the box was tipped over the crossbar by Szcesny. A minute later Felipe Anderson’s shot from outside the penalty box was well saved again by the Juve goalkeeper.

Juve won comfortably. Lazio played well but were sterile in attack and made some huge individual mistakes that cost them three goals and the match.

The Biancocelesti really needed to recharge their batteries. They had 50 days to do so.

Who played for Juventus

Szczesny, Gatti, Bremer, Danilo, Cuadrado, Locatelli (84' Paredes), Rabiot, Fagioli, Kostic (64' Chiesa), Kean (62' Di Maria), Milik.

Substitutes: Pinsoglio, Scaglia, Bonucci, Rugani, Barbieri, Miretti, Soulè

Manager: Allegri

Who played for Lazio

Provedel, Hysaj (69' Gila), Casale, Romagnoli, Marusic, Milinkovic-Savic (77' Marcos Antonio), Cataldi (58' Vecino), Basic (58' Luis Alberto), Romero (69' Cancellieri), Felipe Anderson, Pedro