Summary

  • Coppa Italia winners Lazio beat Serie A champions Juventus 3-1

  • Lazio are only team to beat Juventus this season - twice

  • Game in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  1. Postpublished at 16:40 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

    Juventus v Lazio (16:45 GMT)

    Lazio have qualified for this game because they won the Italian Cup, beating Atalanta 2-0 - in a game opposition manager Gian Piero Gasperini called a "scandal".

    Juventus are in this game for the eighth year in a row having won the Serie A title that many times. They won four of the last seven.

  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:38 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

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  3. Team newspublished at 16:37 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

    Juventus v Lazio (16:45 GMT)

    Juventus make three changes from their last game as goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, right-back Mattia de Sciglio and midfielder Rodrigo Benancur replace Gianluigi Buffon, Danilo and Adrien Rabiot.

    Wales' Aaron Ramsey is on the bench.

    Lazio are unchanged from their last game, with Ciro Immobile looking to maintain his phenomenal form of 19 goals in 20 games this season.

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  4. Postpublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

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  5. Human rights and 'sportswashing'published at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

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    'I just want to do a job' - Joshua on fighting in Saudi Arabia

    This is from a piece our sports editor Dan Roan wrote about the recent Anthony Joshua boxing match in Saudi Arabia.

    "The whole world is watching with this one in a way that it hasn't with previous sporting events there… it is probably the high-water mark in their whole 'sportswashing' process," Amnesty International's head of campaigns Felix Jakens told me last week at the human rights organisation's headquarters in London.

    "There's a reason the fight's happening in Saudi Arabia - the authorities are keen to whitewash - or 'sportswash' - their tarnished international reputation.

    "The reason for that reputation is well-deserved. They've got an appalling record on LGBT rights, women's rights, extra-judicial killings, beheadings, the murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi last year, and their involvement in the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

    "We're not saying Anthony Joshua shouldn't fight in Saudi Arabia. But while there he should use his public profile to speak about the situation in the country and raise the issue of human rights."

  6. Postpublished at 16:31 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

    Money talks these days. Who cares about human rights?

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  7. Postpublished at 16:21 Greenwich Mean Time 22 December 2019

    Juventus v Lazio (16:45 GMT)

    JuventusImage source, Getty Images

    Welcome to live text coverage of the Italian Super Cup between Juventus and Lazio.

    So where is today's game? Turin? Rome? Maybe Milan? Nope, it's in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

    Modern football, eh?