No Klose no party

Simon Basten
Aug 3, 2023
2 min read

Season 2013-14

Pre Season Friendly

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Apostolos Nikoladis Stadium, Athens

Panathinaikos Lazio 0-0

Lazio struggle and still have work to do if they want to be in decent form for the Supercoppa

So far, the Biancocelesti had done their two-week training session at Auronzo di Cadore, near Belluno, from July 10 to 24 playing four friendlies. From August 5-9 they moved to Fiuggi, near Frosinone. In their most recent preseason friendly they had beaten Nice.

The match

Not a good game for Lazio against a modest opponent. No Miro Klose and as a consequence no goals. Vladimir Petkovic tried the double playmaker again with Cristian Ledesma and Lucas Biglia at midfield but unlike the previous game in Nice it did not work so well. Things went a lot better with the entrance of Hernanes and Alvaro Gonzalez when the team went back to their classic 4-5-1 formation.

Lazio only managed to gain the upper hand in the match towards the end of the first half and the beginning of the second with chances for Sergio Floccari, unable to head the ball in from a very favourable position, Senad Lulic, André Dias and Hernanes.

At the back, Dias and Giuseppe Biava still needed to find their form and if it was not for Federico Marchetti the Biancocelesti would have probably lost the game.

The Greeks were certainly in better shape but the need to sell their best players for financial reasons meant that the quality was not all that great. They had an enormous chance after just six minutes when Zeca took advantage of a bad pass back to the keeper from Abdoulay Konko and found himself in front of Marchetti. He dribbled past the Lazio number one but instead of shooting tried an improbable pass and the opportunity vanished. In the second half Dias saved a goal on the line and Athanasios Ntinas hit the crossbar.

In the second half the game had to be stopped for a few minutes after Marchetti was targeted by objects thrown by the home fans.

Lazio still had work to do if they wanted to be in decent form for the Supercoppa against Juventus in two weeks’ time.

Who played for Panathinaikos

Kapino (73' Koteodis), Marinakis, Koutroubis (46' Triantafilopoulos), Schildenfeld, N. Gonzalez, Mendes, Bajrami, Zeka, Abeid, Ntinas (73' Donis), Karelis (58' Berg)

Manager: Anastasiou

Who played for Lazio

Marchetti (69’ Bizzarri), Konko (69’ Cavanda), Biava, Dias, Radu, Biglia, Ledesma (56’ Gonzalez), Candreva (46’ Hernanes), Ederson (84’ Rozzi), Lulic (89’ Vinicius), Floccari (89’ Keita)