I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's game against Bodø/Glimt. If you go back and watch the first leg highlights of their last round where they absolutely took apart Olympiacos, you'll see that they are in constant movement, and continually have late runners both overlapping and moving towards and into the area.

Lazio's players need to approach this game as if they are about to play Barcelona-- because I think in real-world terms, the challenge is comparable: it'll be played in frigid temperatures, in the snow, on a synthetic pitch, against a team exploding with confidence and with absolutely nothing to lose. They will be playing out of their shirts.

My take is that Baroni should instruct the defenders to always be looking over their shoulders, especially at the far post-- because against Olympiacos, the Bodø players were constantly running off the back shoulders and behind. Further, our wide players should be prepared to do a ton of defending: they will need to absolutely sprint their butts off to tightly mark all of the late runners.

I do think we can overmatch them in terms of footballing quality in the center of the park, on counterattacks. So if it were me, I would be prepared to defend, defend, and defend some more-- then try to get outlet passes into the center of the park, and let our technical quality hopefully give us some opportunities from there.

Conversely, if our players come out arrogant or are looking past Bodø and towards the derby, I could see Bodø putting numerous goals past us, just like Inter and Bologna did.