The two wingers took on all the weight of the offensive game against Juve with excellent results. Tomorrow in Pisa they are called to do an encore
Lazio has reopened its wings and is now ready to take off. Among the keys to the turning point of Sarri’s team, which took place in the match against Juventus, there are not only the newfound defensive solidity and the balance found in the middle of the pitch thanks to the entry of Basic. There is also the return as protagonists of the two starting offensive wingers, Gustav Isaksen and Mattia Zaccagni. The Dane was in his first match as a starter and was immediately the best on the pitch. The captain, in reality, has been providing more than acceptable performances since the beginning of the season, but against Juventus he (also) showed off a team-man performance, as Sarri demands.
you fly on the flanks
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With two wingers like this, who create play and produce chances, the problem of center forwards who score little becomes secondary. Castellanos, who had scored 2 goals in the first 6 matchdays, then ended up in the pits due to a strain. Now the first tip is Diawho is not a goal machine, but is an excellent centre-forward, good at working hard for the team and capable of maximizing the characteristics of two fast and technical wingers like Isaksen and Zaccagni. We saw this on Sunday evening at the Olimpico, with the Senegalese player who in many circumstances was further back than the two Biancocelesti wingers. It is a solution that Maurizio Sarri worked on due to the emergency, but which can now turn into a strong point of his team. Also because, when they are on the day (as happened in the match against Juventus) two lateral attackers like Isaksen and Zaccagni have few equals in Serie A. And then, given that he no longer has a striker of the caliber of Ciro Immobile, as in his first biancoceleste cycle, the Commander can proceed without any hesitation towards this “outsourcing” of the offensive game.
now the goals
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All that is missing from the definitive promotion of the new offensive formula are goals. Or rather, more goals are missing. Why Zaccagni has already created two (in the matches against Verona and Genoa), while Isaksen is at zerobut the one against Juventus was his real match this year against Lazio. And the one who replaced her previously, Matteo Cancellieri, he scored three goals. A sign that the formula of “outsourcing” the offensive game was already in place before. And that will be able to continue, regardless of the interpreters. The starters are Isaksen and Zaccagni, but their alternatives, Cancellieri and Pedro, are not bad at all. The Roman, with those three goals, is currently the team’s top scorer. The Spaniard is still without goals this season, but last season, with 14 centres, he was Lazio’s top scorer tied with Castellanos. In short, goals can also come from the flanks as well as the development of the game. Which Lazio absolutely needs to make the definitive leap in quality in a year that started badly, but which can still be largely rectified. Sarri first wanted to work on the foundations, i.e. on defensive solidity. But to take off definitively you also need goals. There are still few goals scored, but against Juventus, beyond Basic’s decisive goal, a certain reversal of trend was noticed: the team was able to get to the shot more easily without losing balance. In the (only) three previous matches in which he had scored (with Verona, Genoa and Turin) Lazio had produced a lot, but to the detriment of their defensive strength. This time the opportunities arrived, but the backward solidity was maintained. This is the path to follow.
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