Lazio beats Juventus 1-0 in the postponement of the 8th matchday and brings them closer in the standings. Instead, there were five consecutive matches in the Juventus championship without success, with three draws and two defeats, and four overall without scoring
If it is true that failure is part of the journey, at Continassa they are setting up a Master’s degree on the subject: Juve also loses at home to Lazio (1-0), after the defeats in Como and Madridwhich stretches a 44 days fasting from victories. Now the Bianconeri are mired in a ranking that doesn’t bode wellin seventh place, together with Atalanta and Udinese, the team arriving at the Allianz on Wednesday. It goes without saying, Igor Tudor — and the team — he will have to give immediate signals, otherwise he will be replaced on the bench it will become more than an option.
Even if then, signs also arrived last night: those of one Juve anxious, approximate, frenetic and, inevitably, clumsywho finished the match with 60 percent ball possession and 14 shots (13). However, without managing to score a single goal — it’s there fourth race run dry, as had not happened since 1991 — to a Lazio that is tough and well organized by Maurizio Sarri, but also crumbled by absences: Nuno Tavares, Rovella, Castellanos, just to name three.
Juve’s first half is a pamphlet: «How to hurt yourself». Starting from the goal, favored by a clumsy header from David: instead of arming the Juventus transition, on Perin’s referral, Cataldi serves, from there the trigger for Toma Basic scoring from outside (with a deviation from Gatti), as had not happened to him for almost two and a half years. It is not the only patatrac if, shortly after, Madama risks big by messing up again on the way out: with the ease of the Clásico, Real or Barcelona of your choice, without having the feet and the order. The ball ends up like this a Guendouziwhose shot was intercepted by Gatti this time. In the midst of that confusion, trailing after less than ten minutes, Juve attempted to take control of the match, but without managing to get much out of it. Between inattention, a vague underlying disorder and a mediocrity in touch and ideas, which frustrated any attempt at an assault.
It didn’t help yet another Tudor compromiseafter the rabbit from the cylinder of the four-man defense (in Como): another round, another set-up, yesterday a sort of 3-5-2 with Conceicao in confinement on the sideline, with the unlikely full-side sentry service order.
Moral: in the first twenty minutes he wasn’t even seen in frontwhere it usually offers the house specialty; while on the other side, a possessed Isaksen created a crisis for Cambiaso who, in fact, will come out at the break. Instead of outside, inside Yildiz, held to a seat at the start: this too, not a great idea. A formation inclined in a sort of 3-4-1-2 will follow, with the Turk behind the two centre-forwards. Above all, a lot of confusion will come out of it a race that will become a saloon between yellow cards (six), almost forbidden shots (Loca on Isaksen) and a more than suspicious penalty for Juve (Gila’s stomp on Conceicao). A draw would have sweetened the evening, but it would not have cleared the horizon of a storm of problems.
