Lazio’s Champions League qualification, but in general the entire Champions League fight in this league, will come through Lazio Juventus on Saturday, May 10. On the road of the biancocelesti will be Igor Tudor, Lazio’s coach for seventy-nine days: as today’s edition of Corriere dello Sport reports, a year ago he had rejected half a team, today those he called redundancies are contending for Champions placement.
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Lazio Juventus, la Champions passa dall’ex Tudor
Fate, it is known, is mocking when it wants to be. A year ago Lazio chose Igor Tudor to end the season. The Croatian coach had nabbed Europa League qualification, with nine games, five won, three drawn, one knockout, but it is that of a derby almost given away with risky choices. His biancoceleste experience, however, was an earthquake that threatened to raze Lazio to the ground: players delegitimized or discarded, demoted, swapped roles or distorted, dumped on the market. The goodbyes with Immobile and Luis Alberto may have already been foreseen but Tudor put his own spin on it; in addition to the two captains, he wanted to add Guendouzi, Isaksen, Rovella, Cataldi, and Lazzari. He didn’t like Romagnoli, he had lowered Zaccagni to fourth midfield as a fluidizer. There had already been tensions with Guendouzi in Marseille, which later broke out in Rome as well. Tudor, in short, demanded a sell-out of players deemed central to the Lazio project: Rovella had to put on pounds and preferred Vecino to him, Cataldi to the goal, Lazzari ditto. The Croatian and his behaviors were not forgotten by the biancocelesti bigwigs: players he had dumped and who are now central and draggers, leaders like Guendouzi, Zaccagni, but also Isaksen and Rovella. He wanted to change half the team, in the end he was changed (after resigning). Today that team and those players find themselves on the road to Champions: Lazio and Juve are paired, together with Roma, on 63 points. Fate, when it wants to, is mocking: Lazio wants its revenge against Tudor, and then against Juve. Then it will go to the San Siro against Simone Inzaghi’s Inter Milan.
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