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Simon Basten

Feb 2, 2023

3 min read

Season 2022-23

Quarter Finals, Coppa Italia

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Previous Match

Alliance Stadium, Turin

Juventus Lazio 1-0

The Biancocelesti exit the Coppa Italia. A poor performance against Juventus.

The teams

Maurizio Sarri decides to put Ciro Immobile in the centre of the attack, Luis Maximiano in goal, Mattias Vecino in midfield and Patric in defence. In other words a little bit of turnover compared to the previous Serie A game. New signing Luca Pellegrini was on the bench. Massimiliano Allegri also made a few changes and in came Mattia Perin, Alex Sandro and for the first time playing together were Enrico Chiesa and Dusan Vlahovic.

The match

The game was played right from the start at a slow rhythm, typical of Coppa Italia games where the big teams were not that interested. This was why one of the semi-finals would be Fiorentina Cremonese.

The first real chance was Lazio’s. Quick counterattack in the 14th minute, Immobile to Felipe Anderson on the right, cross in the centre just outside the box again for King Ciro who completely missed the shot, ball to Mattia Zaccagni on the right whose curving shot was however rather wide. A minute later Filip Kostic on the left to Vlahovic who passed it back to the Serb. Kostic enters the box and shot, great save by Maximiano.

In the 28th minute Danilo crossed the ball in the box from the right, Manuel Lazzari cleared the ball, Kostic picked it up near the corner on the left, immediate cross in the box for Adrien Rabiot whose header was easily saved by the Lazio goalkeeper. Five minutes later Danilo Cataldi to Felipe Anderson outside the box but centre, his shot was just wide.

Juventus scored in the 44th minute. Long cross from the left by Chiesa, ball wennt to the other side of the pitch. Kostic moved out of the box and crossed in. Maximiano saw the danger and tried to anticipate Bremer who had a positional advantage over Lazzari. The Portuguese goalkeeper was anticipated by the Braziian and it was 1-0 for Juve.

A dismal first half from either side, but Juventus was leading.

Sarri decided to change Immobile, clearly out of form, with Pedro and moved Felipe Anderson to the centre for the beginning of the second half.

Lazio had control of the game but were never dangerous. Juventus were content with administrating the lead. A Manuel Locatelli shot in the 67th minute was easily saved by Maximiano. Three minutes later Moise Kean on the counterattack had a chance but his shot was again saved by the Lazio keeper.

Lazio’s only chance came in the 77th minute when an Adam Marusic shot from outside the box was wide by a whisker.

Nothing else of note happened and Juventus won. They would play Inter in the semi-final. A really boring game with very few chances for either side, but Lazio deservedly out of the Coppa Italia.

Who played for Juventus

Perin, Danilo, Bremer, Alex Sandro, Cuadrado (88' De Sciglio), Fagioli (63' Miretti), Locatelli, Rabiot, Kostic, Chiesa (78' Di Maria), Vlahovic (63' Kean)

Substitutes: Szczesny, Pinsoglio, Gatti, Rugani, Paredes, Soulé, Iling-Junior

Manager: Allegri

Who played for Lazio

Maximiano, Lazzari, Patric, Romagnoli (77' Casale), Marusic, Vecino (59' Milinkovic-Savic), Cataldi (74' Marcos Antonio), Luis Alberto (74' Basic), Felipe Anderson, Immobile (46' Pedro), Zaccagni