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Balde Keita is basically a semi-truck with nitrous

This run on the ball through a Leverkusen defender is just sick.

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Lazio need any advantage they can get from playing at home in the first leg of their Champions League playoff tie against German side Bayer Leverkusen, as playing the second leg away is going to be a tough task against their highly-skilled opposition. In the last 10 minutes of the match, though, the score was still knotted at 0-0, leaving Lazio needing someone to step up in a big way -- and that's exactly what Balde Keita did.

The pace, power, and ball control Keita showed off to just bull through a defender much bigger than him is just unfair. Keita hasn't always been relied on as a starter for Lazio, with Felipe Anderson and Antonio Candreva typically preferred, but the Senegalese forward has a fair bit of talent to tap into himself. If he can keep doing things like that to score goals, then he's going to start seeing a lot more of the pitch.

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