The Perfect Start

By: cathal | August 24th, 2009

You can’t get off to a better start in Serie A. Three points in the bag, a clean sheet to boot and all this with a wafer thin squad. That brings our tally to three wins in three different competitions and there really is nothing to complain about; except for the fact our defence is dodgy, our midfield is sometimes non-existent and our attackers miss easy chances from time to time. In fact, you could argue that there’s nothing right with the team but there is an air of invincibility about us. Didn’t we have that air last season? Hmmm…

You see, there is nothing better in soccer than picking up wins and points when you are not playing well or when your squad is depleted. These two factors tend to go hand-in-hand and although it is our coach who has created this situation, he has rectified the problem. Yesterday was utterly nervewracking but in truth, Atalanta deserved absolutely nothing out of the game. We had a few chances and managed to put away one of them. They had a couple of chances as well but Acquafresca proved me right, thankfully. They could have won the game but they were not clinical enough. We sat back very deep, we were inviting them to try their luck but they couldn’t score. We were in their position many a time last season; it’s nice to turn the tables for once.

That’s how it goes sometimes. We can now give some of our boys a hard earned rest midweek and fingers crossed, we will still stroll through the Europa tie.

There is not much more to say. Check out all the bits and bobs below and over today and tomorrow, I will look ahead to Elfsborg and round up these transfers if or when they happen. Forza Lazio!

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Reaction: I’ll post translations later in the Comments section but if you understand italian, check Lazialita’s archive: http://www.lazialita.com/video.asp

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