Flying Bari vs. Fallen Eagles

By: Eros Miranda | October 24th, 2009

When I say fallen eagles I mean it in the sense that Lazio are not where they expected to be in the league, but they were actually in fine form this weekend and sunk the Yellow Submarine (Villareal) in the Europa League, so congrats for that. That being said, Bari is no Villareal, we are in better form and with a win this weekend against Lazio we will make a huge step towards a very promising season.

So far, we have 11 points in the league, just 2 behind Genoa and 1 behind Milan and Palermo. Such numbers should not be taken lightly and we didn’t get this far with pure luck. If anything we should be further up the table, our main and toughest opponent thus far has been efficency infront of goal. It is insane how many easy goal-scoring chances we have missed infront of goal. I remember sitting infront of my T.V watching Bari take on Milan in the San Siro and yelling at the fowards. We dominated almost the whole match, just to get a draw. After last weeks win away to Chievo we find ourselfs once again in good form and should manager to leave the San Nicola with atleast an important point. We have to remember that Lazio are no easy team and that Ballardini was one of the top managers last season, someone I truly esteem a lot. Check out last weeks highlights, with both goals from Almiron and Ranocchia coming from headers, notice how our fowards still find it hard to score.

The lineups this weekend will most likely look like this:
BARI (4-4-2): Gillet; A. Masiello, Ranocchia, Bonucci, S.Masiello; Alvarez, Donati, Almiron, Allegretti; Kutuzov, Barreto. All. Ventura

LAZIO (4-3-1-2): Muslera; Lichtsteiner, Cribari, Diakite, Kolarov; Brocchi, Dabo, Mauri; Matuzalem; Rocchi, Zarate. All. Ballardini

Lets hope Barreto can recover the form that he possesed last year, he can be our salvation up-front.
I’ll provide the links tommorrow as the game will not be televised, mainly due to the fact that Machester United takes on Liverpool.

Per Sempre Bari