Some things never change.
By: salvatore | September 21st, 2008Well, my fears yesterday were justified, as this season’s early good form was no match for a decade’s long winless streak against the Rossoneri. Put simply, we just can’t beat Milan.
If it was a couple of season’s worth of losses to Berlusconi’s boys, I’d consider it a case of simply not matching up well with them. But ten years? I have no clue what to say anymore. Is it a case of mental block or something? Fear? Intimidation? All three are possible now, but in the Cragnotti scudetto days? Unlikely.
Call it what you want folks, because I just can’t explain it.
The good news, if any can be gleamed from this debacle, it’s that little Maurito Zarate has proven once again that he’s the real deal, scoring a nice goal, and running at the Milan defense with the confidence of someone much older than his 20 years. Of course, if he keeps playing this way, he’ll get much more of the fouls and tough tackles thrown his way throughout the game…but that’s another story all together.
Elsewhere, the defense that had looked relatively solid in the first two games was disorganized, sloppy and way too lax about giving Milan’s galaxy of stars space to operate. Granted, almost every one of the Rossoneri’s goals were highlight reel material, but the fact is, you can’t give guys like Kaka room to line up a shot like the one he unleashed in the second half. He’ll kill you nine times out of ten.
Luckily, there are some options for Delio. Radu and De Silvestri both started the game on the bench, and I’d expect at least one, if not both, to get some serious playing time on Wednesday. I’ve said from the beginning that I believe a back four of De Silvestri (or Lichsteiner), Radu, Rozehnal and Kolarov to be our best bet. Let’s see if Rossi gives it a shot.
Meanwhile, Delio might have a hard time justifying playing Mauri from the first minute, especially when he has guys like Meghni and Foggia riding the pine. With the team winning it was one thing for him to stick to his guns, but after a 4-1 loss? Methinks it’s time to try a something new (like a straight 4-4-2), at least until Rocchi returns, and the team can adopt a proper trident attack.
What else can you say?
Onwards we go to Olimpico and the next big test: Fiorentina
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Well Milan were under presure due to their poor start and it was timely they start producing something. Unfortunately it just had to be Lazio.
But well done Zarate. Again he is reminding of a certain Hernan Crespo that once rip the net of every opponent in a light blue shirt.
http://mundoalbiceleste.blogspot.com/2008/09/for-3rd-time-were-in-final-vamos-del.html
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Agree 100% with what John has said… It was do or do for Milan and we I think may of been quietly over confident going into this one. Let’s hope that this is our one and only wake up call and that we continue our form from the 1st 2 games played.
BTW, does anyone else share the same fear as I do that Zarate will be snapped up by a Bigger (Richer) club at the end of his 1 year loan deal with us?? I know that we will have the option to buy after the loan period but whats stopping another club from coming in and offering double then what we are able / willing to pay??
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Franco, Lazio would do well to keep Zarate and when it comes to spending money they are not shy. What I saw yesterday against Milan was a very capable squad who would be well to keep moving forward with these players and investments. A goalie would be nice though, Carrizo looked a bit like a cat with a toy on string…
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i hope we could keep mauro zarate for future and i think De silvestri is a good selection for situation instead of litchesteiner.now we should think about Fiorentina (zauri and liverani)
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Have to disagree with you on Carrizo Gianfranco. He’s a solid keeper…I just don’t think he could have done much to save at least three of those goals.
I share your fears Franco, but similar to what happened with Radu, I’m pretty sure Lotito will spend the cash if he sees it’s worth it (and it is).
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does the buy out clause on zarate not mean that lazio get teh first offer to buy him, so then the only problem would be if he didn’t want to sign(but i think it was him who said he really wanted to play for lazio, it could have been someone else i cant rmemeber). Also carrizzo is a pretty damn good goalie, teh only mistake he made was zambrotta’s goal where he may have been able to do a bit better but other then that i dont think there was much else he could do better.
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With Zarate, it is assumed that Lazio have a fixed price set and if the club matches that amount, then Mauro signs. The only thing that scares me is the Jimenez case, but that was a different matter altogether.
Carrizo was at fault for the Kaka’ goal, he went across with his right hand in order to palm it out for a corner but he didn’t get there on time. That was a misjudgement on his part, but let’s face it, he’s saved our bacon already on quite a few occasions so you won’t hear me criticise JP. What I would say is we do need to shake things up, it’s ok to have a first eleven but Milan knew what was coming and they dealt with it. I would leave out Mauri and bring in Foggia at least but I think we should stick with Lichtsteiner. Up until the Milan game, I think he was second only to Zarate in terms of performance. I don’t like seeing Lorenzo on the bench and we do need to change things but we can’t make wholesale changes or it hits the confidence. This is something Delio will have to fix.
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I think it’s very harsh to sit here and blame Carrizo for any of the goals… the defence was terrible and was full of holes, you can’t give a team like Milan that much space to play. There was not much any keeper could do, I reckon even Buffon would of let in 3-4.
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JP is no Buffon and it’s unreasonable to expect him to be as good as one of the best goalkeepers the game has or will ever see. It’s not fair to cast doubts on him either but I feel that a Buffon or a Casillas would have saved the Kaka’ shot. However, most Serie A goalkeepers would have conceded those 4 goals so I can’t complain at all.
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