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Igor Tudor Tactics At Juventus & Maurizio Sarri Tactics At SS Lazio 2025/2026
Today, we have a pair of Serie A head coach analyses for the 2025/2026 season — one on Igor Tudor and how he's doing at Juventus as well as one previewing Maurizio Sarri's return to Rome with SS Lazio.
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Maurizio Sarri re-joins Lazio for a second spell as announced by the club, following a 15-month break from coaching, having left I Biancocelesti in March 2024.
His first spell with the club started in the summer of 2021 and lasted until March 2024.
He achieved historic results with the team, notably a second-place finish in Serie A in the 2022/2023 season.
The team’s fans are mostly very happy about this appointment.
They believe in Sarri’s ability to lead the team back to the top of Serie A and to compete regularly in the UEFA Champions League.
Following the end of Marco Baroni’s journey with the team at the end of this season, the club and the fans agree that the results are not as successful as needed, given that Lazio failed to guarantee a European competition ticket, having finished in seventh place.
It is also agreed that the choice of Sarri comes to rescue the team from remaining in lower spots in Serie A or get away from the battle with the big teams, with the belief that Sarri is the one coach who can lead them back to domestic success and achieve unprecedented results on a European level.
Lazio decided to appoint an experienced head coach who knows Lazio very well and will not need time to adapt to Serie A’s specifications.
This will help them win a lot of time ahead of the new season and start it in the best possible way, as they will have the time needed to prepare, experiment with the players, and get them used to Sarri’s system.
In fact, Sarri has already worked with many of the existing players within Lazio’s squad, and this will be very time-saving for everyone.
Moreover, having the time and ability to discuss with the management which players to try buying and which ones will not be in the team’s plans will help Sarri build the team from scratch according to his preferences, but without destroying the core.
In this tactical analysis article, we will explore Sarri’s ideas and how to use them in the context of the current Lazio squad.
The analysis will also discuss the available player choices and Lazio’s needs from the transfer window to reinforce the squad.
Igor Tudor guided Juventus back to the UEFA Champions League after taking over from Thiago Motta near the end of the 2024/2025 season.
He breathed new life into the squad, and Juventus lost only one of their remaining nine matches of the season, which allowed them to secure fourth place on the final day of the season.
Tudor has managed some elite clubs during his career.
The 47-year-old has recently worked at Olympique de Marseille and SS Lazio and was an assistant under Andrea Pirlo when he was in charge of Juventus.
Thiago Motta’s tactics got stale, and the goals were starting to dry up for Juventus, with his build-up no longer being effective.
Tudor changed things formation-wise and tactically for I Bianconeri, which has gotten them good results, but there are still some concerning signs.
Now, they are coming off a thrashing at the hands of Manchester City at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, and the question marks going forward will be whether Juventus are truly back to being one of Serie A’s elite clubs and whether they are actually better off under Igor Tudor.
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