Massimiliano Allegri, 48, and Stefano Pioli, LaPresse 50.
Rome, Olympic Stadium, May 20 2015 Cup final Italy: Juventus beat Lazio 2-1 comeback, thanks to a network of Matri in the final (which will pass in a few months after biancoceleste) and put on the bulletin board the second title. About two and a half months after the new season begins with the same challenge, but in the heat of China: Juve-Lazio Super Cup ends with goals from Mandzukic and Dybala and the team of Stefano Pioli beaten again this time. It seems the usual Juve who is preparing for the usual season dominatrix, despite the illustrious bachelor of Tevez, Pirlo and Vidal, but just long to realize that it does not. Rome, Olympic Stadium, August 30, 2015, Allegri’s team this time out with his head down, beaten by a Magic that now seems light years ahead. Two games, zero points and the new course that appears all uphill. Four months after the two teams find themselves with opposing states of mind, after a thousand pirouettes: Juve has returned to smile thanks to the comeback last month, the New York instead is in crisis.
OLYMPIC LUCKY – Five points from their first six games: this was the meager budget Juventus after Udinese, Roma, Chievo, Genoa, Napoli and Frosinone. Juve then went on limping between births and relapses, until the blow of Sassuolo; from there everything changed, especially the attitude on the field. Now the team has rediscovered hunger, game and some important players: it was not easy to be a couple of months without Khedira and Marchisio, while in attack are often missed Mandzukic and Morata. Four wins in a row in A and won the second round of Champions: logical that the ranks of Allegri returns to Rome in the best psychological conditions. In addition the Olympic field is friend: in the last 10 challenges in A against Lazio, Juve have won seven times and drew 3. Dybala, who had scored twice to Biancocelesti with Palermo, found the third (and the first with Juve) Super Cup.
HERE LAZIO – He had left Juve, last August 8 in Shanghai, looking into her eyes. By peers, in fact. Feeling that Lazio Pioli had felt even more two and half months before when he lost the Italian Cup with Juventus only after extra time and the famous double pole Djordjevic. Now he finds himself Juve with a mood entirely. Yes, because this Lazio feel small in the presence of new training Allegri. And this despite Juve is no longer the team steamroller of the previous four seasons. It Lazio, then, who has returned to the ranks. An unthinkable situation last summer, but also in early fall. Yes because, disposed disappointments Summer Super Cup and Champions playoffs, Lazio had recovered. So much so that towards the end of October was second, while Juve trudged behind.
PINS AT RISK – Then, suddenly, the bang: five defeats in the last seven games and even one point from their last five. A collapse (mitigated in part by performing well in the Europa League) that did end up in the dock the principal architect of the “miracle” of last season: Stefano Pioli. The technical risks paying for all in case of a new ko tonight, although it is likely that Lotito still grant him a few more chances, unless new arrivals a debacle like the one against Napoli in September. Pioli cross your fingers, even thinking about the negative tradition that in the match against the Bianconeri both he and his team. In eleven against a coach against the team in which he played a young, Pioli has in fact never won (eight defeats and 3 draws). And Lazio does not beat Juventus in the league for 12 years. It will require a minor miracle, then. Like those that Lazio and Pioli have been able to do last year.
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