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Rome: Juventus defeated Lazio 2-0 to win the Coppa Italia for a record third straight year and sustain the Turin club’s hopes of achieving the triple.<\/p>\nRome: Juventus defeated Lazio 2-0 to win the Coppa Italia for a record third straight year and sustain the Turin club’s hopes of achieving the triple.<\/p>\n
Lazio, playing their third Coppa Italia final in five years here on Wednesday, made a promising start in front of nearly 60,000 spectators at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico and gave Juventus a scare as Keita Balde Diao hit the post from close range in the seventh minute, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
Juventus were quick to react and took the lead five minutes later on a volley from Dani Alves.<\/p>\n
The goal left Lazio in disarray and Juventus turned up the pressure.<\/p>\n
Leonardi Bonucci pounced on a loose ball and slipped it past Lazio goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha in the 24th minute to put Juventus ahead 2-0.<\/p>\n
The outcome was never really in doubt after Juventus’s second goal, though Lazio played with heart and created chances in the second half.<\/p>\n
With the Coppa secured and a sixth consecutive league title all but certain, Juventus are looking forward to meeting Real Madrid in the June 3 Champions League final in Cardiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rome: Juventus defeated Lazio 2-0 to win the Coppa Italia for a record third straight year and sustain the Turin club’s hopes of achieving the triple.<\/p>\n
Lazio, playing their third Coppa Italia final in five years here on Wednesday, made a promising start in front of nearly 60,000 spectators at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico and gave Juventus a scare as Keita Balde Diao hit the post from close range in the seventh minute, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
Juventus were quick to react and took the lead five minutes later on a volley from Dani Alves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2485,12975,466,2236,22195],"class_list":["post-34781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-coppa-italia","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-juventus","tag-lazio"],"yoast_head":"\n