Italian Football Thread III

KujaIX · Feb 11, 2020

Sarri is a fraud.

Playing utterly terrible football.

Give Conte that team and he'd have won every match so far this season.

Qaas · Feb 11, 2020

Casualista said:
It's really lame to see someone pretend to be juve fan when their entire motivation is hating on Conte and blowing off Sarri.

This tune would be completely opposite if the two teams exchanged coaches.

Stfu

Qaas · Feb 11, 2020

Ronin said:
Lazio should win the Scudetto !

That would be the dream

Qaas · Feb 11, 2020

Nestafan said:
I'd prefer to see Inter win it over Juve AGAIN

Casualista · Feb 12, 2020

Qaas said:
Stfu

Yes, u agreed with a post that said juve dominance should end. Then went on to blow Sarri's Napoli.

Now you want juve dominance to continue because sarri is there.

Lol@searching hate and inter and quoting a post that makes my point.

Qaas · Feb 12, 2020

Casualista said:
Yes, u agreed with a post that said juve dominance should end. Then went on to blow Sarri's Napoli.

Now you want juve dominance to continue because sarri is there.

Lol@searching hate and inter and quoting a post that makes my point.

It was never a secret that I liked Sarri’s napoli you fcn weirdo.

The point is that I always disliked inter more than juve. Yet you are here trying to make it sound like I only dislike inter more because sarri joined juve, which has never been the case.

joyrider · Feb 16, 2020

finally 1 - 1

totally deserved

joyrider · Feb 16, 2020

c'mon Lazio one more :lol:

KujaIX · Feb 16, 2020

Lazio actually winning.

Didn't expect that tbh.

fray · Feb 16, 2020

What a goal that could've been from Immobile.

vB9 · Feb 16, 2020

Goal says there were 6mins of extra time... was it really or were refs trying to help inter

scarecrows · Feb 16, 2020

vB9 said:
Goal says there were 6mins of extra time... was it really or were refs trying to help inter

just short of 5 minutes

it showed 3 in the beginning but immediately changed to 4
then 1 min added after Strakosha delayed the game because of a probably (but highly unlikely) injury

vB9 · Feb 16, 2020

^^Thanks

fray · Feb 23, 2020

Lazio 2-0.

Immobile to shatter Higuain's scoring record?

Mexes5 · Feb 24, 2020

It really shows the state of modern football if Immobile is going to break a scoring record.

Goodfella · Feb 24, 2020

Mexes5 said:
It really shows the state of modern football if Immobile is going to break a scoring record.

It just shows the ridiculous amount of PKs Lazio have been awarded.

He has scored 17 non-PK goals. That's still a lot, but very far away from Higuain's 33. He won't come close to it if he scores at the same rate.

Milan2012 · Feb 25, 2020

VARs ruining the game. Cancelled Zlatan goal was worse than Steve Harvey taking the award back from Miss Colombia.

necromancer · Feb 29, 2020

A nice peek into how poor the Juve game is right now and how it has been just Cristiano-ball since January:

https://twitter.com/juvefcdotcom/status/1233809337040146440?s=21

necromancer · Mar 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/milanismoit/status/1234046152439484416?s=20

Forza Rino.

Curupira · Mar 5, 2020

What is Lazio doing right this season? I know consistency helps, but they've hardly spent any money last mercato.

fray · Mar 6, 2020

Curupira said:
What is Lazio doing right this season? I know consistency helps, but they've hardly spent any money last mercato.

Compared to last season where they finished 8th and massively underperformed in the league, they squad has been a very united group this season. Simone Inzaghi has been managing them for 4 years now, so you'd probably assume their continuity would prevail sooner than later.

Two of their key players in Luis Alberto and Milinkovic-Savic, who both, for their relative standards, had below average seasons last term are repaying the fans by proving their true worth this season. Luis Alberto's position has been adjusted and he now drops deeper in midfield to be more involved in the build-up play. With this adjustment, their midfield of SMS, Leiva and L.Alberto runs like the finest of Swiss watches. While up top, Immobile is in the form of his life and is well on course to break Higuain's scoring record.

A lot of people (incl. me) have said they've been very lucky with penalties (by far most in Serie A with 13) but the underlying stats show they've been the team appearing most times in the opposition's box. They also whip a dozens of crosses into the box each game, so it's not a coincidence that they earn penalties in abundance like we won them with Balotelli's constant diving bombardment between 2013 and 2014.

Another factor is their myriad of injury-time winners, however at this point I don't want to label them lucky because you just don't score that amount of injury-time winners by chance. They play and have this fighting spirit until every & last second of the game.

In the transfer market, they've had a few under the radar moves, as they did when they brought in Manuel Lazzarri, an excellent wing-back for their system or Denis Vavro to fill the back-up role.

Although the league table from the last and the current season may indicate so, they haven't done *that much* different from last season - they stuck with their coach after a poor season, brought in only one starter & some few back-ups and have had a fair share of luck with penalties and late-winners, that again, I don't really want to consider lucky or touch upon the notion of 'lucky Lazio'.

joyrider · Mar 7, 2020

https://www.football-italia.net/150903/dal-pino-sue-zhang

the fine should be bigger

Pingu · Mar 7, 2020

joyrider said:
https://www.football-italia.net/150903/dal-pino-sue-zhang

the fine should be bigger

I understand the fine because of what he said, but honestly he's not wrong :lol:

Clowns in charge of the league for sure.

Hugh Janus · Mar 7, 2020

FIGC are clowns so

necromancer · Mar 13, 2020

4 more Samp players and Vlahovic have tested positive.

Meanwhile, Serie A clubs have expectedly rejected the playoff idea.

Pingu · Mar 14, 2020

necromancer said:
4 more Samp players and Vlahovic have tested positive.

Meanwhile, Serie A clubs have expectedly rejected the playoff idea.

Another three coronavirus cases in Serie A from Fiorentina: Patrick Cutrone, German Pezzella and physiotherapist Stefano Dainelli.

Hope they all keep well. Also, apparently Serie A want the league to continue in a couple months :lol:

necromancer · Mar 14, 2020

Once the infection is under control, the league will probably resume. Hopefully in May.

Pingu · Mar 14, 2020

necromancer said:
Once the infection is under control, the league will probably resume. Hopefully in May.

If Euro 2020 is delayed til next year, which seems most likely and makes more sense, then yeah they can start the league again in May. Means there'll be a game midweek every second week though I'd image? A lot to squeeze in.

Polotelli · Jun 18, 2020

based on the tempo and level of the coppa italia games I expect some shitty games in the coming weeks

at the same time the perfect opportunity to see some surprising results and changes in the table

Jasper · Jun 22, 2020

Curupira said:
What is Lazio doing right this season?

Getting penalties

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