Juventus and Lazio look alike, they hate each other- Corriere.it

Max and Mau have never been friends and not just for a trivial matter of rivalry. Massimiliano Allegri and Maurizio Sarri take life and football starting from opposite poles. Light-hearted and even a little Gascon, the Juventus player has learned over the Savoy years to manage the fleeting moment after the game in a wiser and less impulsive way, unless Adani is on the other side of the camera. Sarri, on the other hand, is darker, more plaintive, more controversial. There is always something wrong with Maurizio: the conditions of the pitch, the time of the match, the choices of the League, the short time to train.

Tuscans at the antipodes. Allegri looks at the sea of ​​Livorno, Sarri at the hills around Figline Valdarno, its buen retiro. Different attitudes and work on the pitch: for the Juventus player the players come before the game, for Sarri the principles have been the basis of everything since the days in which he coached among amateurs. Tomorrow evening they will close the first stressful phase of this championship in a face to face full of meanings.

Allegri is reborn after having risked big, credibility and even the bench, despite the assurances of president Agnelli. Five straight victories without conceding a goal have given the Bianconeri some color: Before this row we had a hard time seeing where we were in the standings, the coach told the club’s channel after the 1-0 at Verona. Now Juve could become the anti-Napoli. A role, why not, which Lazio could also aspire to. Sarri, in his second year in the capital, is bringing out the best of his repertoire, the vaunted one sarrismo that made Naples dream. Allegri wants strong players. Sarri, above all, suited to his way of interpreting football, an arithmetic game made of perfect triangles in speed with the development almost always vertical and the defense oriented on the ball.

Different in the interpretation of the game, in the character and also in the appearance, Allegri always elegant in the social uniform, Sarri proudly in overalls because he feels himself a craftsman of the field, that is his way. They challenged each other for the Scudetto at the time when Mau delighted the San Paolo, who later became Maradona. But they started frowning much earlier, in 2004, on the peripheral fields of Tuscany. Allegri on the bench of the Aglianese, Sarri on that of the Sangiovannese. Even then they did not get along.

Massimiliano seems perfect for Juve’s motto, winning is the only thing that matters, even if the ancient magic seems to have vanished since his return. In his head, the result comes first. Juve play badly but at least returned cynical and concrete, take home the games by raising a wall in front of Szczesny (or Perin as against Hellas) and it hurts with the restarts. Above all, he has learned to suffer, even when he goes free diving.

But the defense has also become Lazio’s weapon. Allegri has the best in the league, with only 7 goals conceded, Sarri has only remedied one more. Different, but also similar and maybe neither of them will like the combination. Max defends himself in the classic, almost ancient way one might say. Mau might argue that he does it by attacking.

Tomorrow evening at the Stadium, where the Lazio player returns with the aim of taking revenge, there will be fun. And there will be sparks. a crucial match. Juve aims to win it to overtake their rivals, the Biancocelesti to shore up second place and perhaps, as they did in Florence, use the counterattack.

We will see what game will come out. Juve now have the soul of the team. Lazio is in every sense. Maybe they won’t put on a show. The show is guaranteed the same by those two, so different and now if not the same at least similar. Or not?