01 February 2023
Lazio return to the Allianz Stadium after their visit in mid-November, the match that wrapped up the domestic action before the break for the World Cup in Qatar.
Juventus ran out 3-0 winners in the Serie A Matchday 15 fixture. In the cup, however, little splits the teams with Juventus winning nine of the 24 clashes to Lazio's eight.
IN THE CUP
Lazio are enjoying an unbeaten four-match run in Serie A that has taken the Roman side to equal third-place with Milan in the standings. Splitting that sequence of league matches was their cup debut, in the last-16, like Juventus.
And like the Bianconeri, who defeated Monza 2-1, the Biancocelesti progressed to the quarter-finals with the slimmest of winning margins, 1-0 against Bologna. The game's only goal was scored by Felipe Anderson.
Since last reaching the semi-finals in 2018/19, when they eventually lifted the trophy by defating Atalanta in the final in their own Olympic Stadium, Lazio have been knocked out in the quarter-finals in all of the last three editions of Coppa Italia.
Furthermore, outside of Rome, Lazio have won just one of their last seven away games in Coppa Italia, losing four of them, including all of the last three.
Cup form aside, the team coached by Maurizio Sarri are one of only two Italian teams, alongside Napoli, to boast three players with at least eight goals this season in all competitions, with Felipe Anderson joined by Mattia Zaccagni and Ciro Immobile, all on eight goals.
KEEP AN EYE ON...
..the team's three top scorers
Vying to fully recover from injury is Ciro Immobile. The Biaoncocelesti captain limped off against Sasuolo in the 15th minute on January 15 and has sat out the last three matches in league and cup. Immobile has scored five goals against the Bianconeri for Lazio in all competitions – the last three all coming at the Allianz stadium in Serie A, a brace on 14 October 2017 and a single goal on 20 July 2020.
In the absence of the club's all-time leading scorer, both Mattia Zacagni and Felipe Anderson found the net in the match against the Neroverdi, as they did also in the 4-0 win over Milan the following week.
Zaccagni's eight goals is a personal best for the midfielder in a single Serie A season and he is the highest-scoring Italian player this league campaign so far.
Meanwhile, Felipe Anderson has played 10 Serie A games without finding a goal or assist against Juventus, making the Bianconeri the team which he has played most minutes against in Europe's top-five leagues without ever taking part in a goal, 676 minutes.
