Coppa Italia Final: Lazio- Juventus

 

Match will be played in Lazio's home stadium, so advantage to them in that regard, but it will not be the usual home crowd of course and there is the small matter of the derby game with Roma in five days time and beyond local bragging rights and even that the match is likely to decide who will finish highest in the league, there is also a Champions League spot at stake there and were Lazio to lose, it would open the door for Napoli to steal third spot. Cup final or not, Lazio will surely have one eye on the derby fixture and that is the bigger of the two games they will play in the next five days.
 

Juventus are just relentless, they should have lost to Inter on Saturday, were playing shortly after making the Champions League final and ahead of this game and with very little to play for in the league, they rested a whole host of players, fell behind and still won ! Like I said, relentless and with huge momentum and it looks like they want to ride that all the way to Berlin. Five key players who did not even make the trip to Milan will return fresh and ready for action and will boost a group where confidence is already through the roof.  Juve really want this one, they are after, like Real last season in the Champions League, a décima of Coppa titles and they have waited 20 long years since the last, win #10 will take them above Roma in the all time standings and there is a very nice symmetry about all of that. They are missing Claudio Marchisio and Álvaro Morata who are both suspended, but have a surplus of riches compared to Saurday and Lazio had no such option to rest players for their weekend game. Juve have already done the league double by an aggregate 5-0, winning 3-0 here in Rome in late November and appear very focused on winning just the third domestic double in their history.