The first piece is in place. Juventus wins the 12th Coppa Italia in its history and puts the first trophy of the season on the showcase, which is essential for keeping the environment calm and, above all, continuing to pursue the Treble dream.
Lazio, on the other hand, returns home with another defeat, the umpteenth against a Lady who evidently knows no mercy when she sees the Biancoceleste. This time no surprises: the technical values of the bianconeri prevailed, clearly superior from all points of view and able to close any discussion already in the first half.
“We played it extraordinarily well – Allegri commented – In the second we were good at managing, we made up for Sunday's inattentive performance. Now we are missing a victory to win the championship, we have to do it on Sunday against Crotone but it won't be easy because they are fighting for salvation".
Contained exultation that of the Juventus coach, daughter of those who, numbers in hand, are convinced that they have just begun collecting trophies. Easy to say that the Italian Cup was the least important, a little less winning it without ifs and buts on the Lazio field, determined to give everything to bring it home.
But this time Juve, back from the knockout with Roma, started with a thousand concentration and ended up eating Inzaghi's team in one bite, already in the first half. Yet it was the Biancocelesti who first became dangerous, scaring Neto (who played in goal in place of Buffon) with a shot from Keita that ended up hitting the post.
Wrong goal, conceded goal: the oldest law of football struck again. In the 12th minute, Alex Sandro caught Dani Alves and the Brazilian's right-footed shot went behind Strakosha, for Juve to make it 1-0 in a Juventus frenzy. Which definitely exploded in the middle of the second half, when Bonucci shot the Lazio goalkeeper cold after another assist from Alex Sandro (24').
The rest of the match still flowed on the edge of emotions but the result, thanks to the solidity of the bianconeri, remained unchanged and the Coppa Italia, for the third consecutive time, took the road to Turin. No one had ever gone that far, a bit like in the league even if the records, for the moment, are still to be updated.
“Unfortunately the episodes didn't go in our favor and I say this without taking anything away from Juve – Simone Inzaghi's analysis – If instead of taking the post we had scored the match would have changed, unfortunately it didn't go like this but we are still talking about the finalist of the Champions League".
Sharable speeches, which however are of little interest to Massimiliano Allegri: the Italian Cup is on the bulletin board and the Treble is still possible. And the desire to raise trophies certainly didn't end there.
