To tell you the truth, this season in the EL it is a huge advantage to be seeded, because other than the unseeded teams that dropped down from the UCL, Lyon is the only tough one really. Nice maybe but I don't think so. The only contender that isn't seeded is Napoli.
Europa League Last 32 draw: Borussia Dortmund-Atalanta Nice-Lokomotiv Moscow FC Copenhagen-Atletico Madrid AEK Athens-Dynamo Kiev Celtic-Zenit St Petersburg Napoli-RB Leipzig Red Star - CSKA Moscow Lyon-Villarreal Real Sociedad-Red Bull Salzburg Partizan-Viktoria Plzen Steaua Bucharest-Lazio Ludogorets-Milan Astana-Sporting CP Ostersund-Arsenal Marseille-Braga
Lazio, and Inzaghi, have gone off the rails: https://www.football-italia.net/114151/inzaghi-lazio-defrauded-yet-again
I’ve said it before: peasants stay peasants. They are by their own intrinsic nature mediocre, and mediocrity blames everything but its own intrinsic nature for it being what it is. That’s why it goes hand-in-hand with envy.
In all fairness, it was a bullshit VAR call with the red card to Immobile. I would have been pissed if it was called against us.
Yeah, but we’ve endured our own share of bullshit calls (both in favor and against) over the years, plus the genuine collusion of the entire Italian football establishment in their attempt to destroy Juventus. So Inzaghi can f*ck right off with his “4 weeks in-a-row” bullshit. Nazio are starting to get figured out and they’re bitching about it, because that what little bitches like Nazio and their loathsome supporters do.
The call against Lichtsteiner that called back a perfectly good goal (and cost us a win) in the BUILD UP to the gaol is still the worst piece of VAR abuse yet. It was never supposed to be used that way and as you can see it hasn't been since. When I described this to some posters on another site I frequent with fans from all over they were appalled and quite concerned about VAR if that was how it was going to be used.
Still, it is pretty funny that Inzaghi feels anyone cares enough about Lazio to want to expend effort to "hold them back".
You mean where a legit goal was called back for a non-existent offsides? Game could have ended in our favor, but we all know what happened then.
Lotito is now whining that he might pull Lazio from the championship this season. Good, take your ********ing team and go home you bitch. But leave Milinkovic-Savic with us.
Nazio and the merdisti scum are allied. We’re not “cool” with any other group of supporters, with the exception of Legia Warsaw and ADO Den Haag. For everybody else it’s just varying degrees of contempt, especially in Italy. We don’t actively hate Nazio in the way that we loathe the merdisti or the purple rats, but they’re no different to us than the rest of the peninsula. ‘Amici di nessuno’ is one of our mottos for a reason, and we mean it.
Acknowledging what happened during a game isn’t the same as claiming that the past month has been a conspiracy to derail your team’s momentum. It’s hardly surprising that this is happening to Lazio now, nearing the half-season mark. It’s around this time that a team’s actual quality starts to reveal itself, because once you’ve played the rest of the league, they then have the tactical blue print to help them prepare for the next match. It’s why teams that start out strong as surprise dark horses so often finish mid-table by the end of the season. If a squad can maintain its form and dominance after they have already encountered the rest of the league, then you can take it as a reflection of genuine quality. If it doesn’t then all it means is that the team’s quality was overrated from the start.
This actually seems likely to me. Which prolly means Conte to Milan for next season: http://www.football-italia.net/114326/ancelotti-set-chelsea-return
What about Sassuolo? They have always been good to Juve by letting the young dudes develop over there in the near past. and possibly Atalanta now as well? The wouldnt let Leonardo leave, but they were pretty cordial about it considering Juve tried to break the contract.