Another friendly match had been faced by Lazio several days ago. The opponent were coming from Swiss, FC Luzern. For your information, FC Luzern had became the club for one of the Indonesian player, Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto, although the former Indonesian international striker spent only one season with this club.
This is the formation of the teams:
First half: Lazio: Federico Marchetti, Senad Lulic, Marius Stankevicius, Modibo Diakite, Lionel Scaloni, Mark Bresciano, Francelino Matuzalem, Lorik Cana, Giuseppe Sculli, Mauro Zarate, Sergio Floccari.
Luzern: Zibung, Thiesson, Fanger, Kibebe, Kryyeziu, Kukelu, Lustenberget (50' Yanko Pankar), Hyka, Winter, Wiss, Ianu.
Lazio had managed to get the lead as early as in the 4th minute with Mauro Zarate getting his first goal of the game. A low Scaloni cross found Mauro in the box and the Argentinean made no mistake on the first chance on goal of the evening.
In the first half, Lulic proved to have great offensive qualities and set up the second goal (27’) of the evening after a great run penetrating the Luzern penalty area and sending a cross that found Zarate who only had to finish off the attack.
In the 9th minute Modibo Diakite went close after a Zarate corner, and in the 32nd Floccari should have added a third goal as he missed an open goal after trying to fire the ball into the net with power. Other than that, Lazio struggled to create any pressure on the Luzern goal and the Swiss showed as dangerous as Lazio.
After having started the game with in a solid way, Marius Stankevicius came to play the main role in defense in the first half. In the 20th minute Scaloni lost the ball in a dangerous position on the right and Jahmir Hayka got passed Marchetti, but was denied by the Lithuanian on the goal line. Twenty minutes later the Lazio defender missed his marking and Luzern was close to grabbing a first goal but failed to capitalize. In the 44th minute however they were to celebrate, as Lazio’s new number 12 once again missed his marking, this time on a corner, and Cristian Ianu had an easy time heading the ball behind Marchetti.
The first half had ended with 2-1 score for Lazio. In second half Edy Reja did some change of the players. In came in second half: Albano Bizzarri, Abdoulay Konko, Giuseppe Biava, Andre Dias, Javier Garrido, Christian Brocchi, Cristian Ledesma, Stefano Mauri, Anderson Hernanes, Djibril Cisse and Miroslav Klose.
In the beginning not much happened, but after a few minutes the new eleven started moving, and it was Djibril Cisse that led the team. With the match clock on 68’ the Frenchman got a goal after Brocchi’s shot had been stopped, only to find himself offside. The spectators did not have to wait more than five minutes though until “the Black Lion” showed his quality again. Klose showed great determination in the penalty area fighting for the ball, and after sending it to Cisse, who controlled the ball beautifully, the latter easily doubled the Lazio lead.
With ten minutes left of the game number 99 stood out as most impressive Lazio player of the day. Just having advanced inside the Luzern half Cisse found Klose with a beautiful cross, and the German international showed his great goal scoring ability with a secure header making the score-line 4-1.
Luzern did not have much to put in the way of a Lazio side that now showed more speed and looked more interested in attacking compared to the first half. Most interested of all was Djibril Cisse, who just two minutes after the latest goal showed the pace and speed he is famous for and outran the Swiss defense to serve Mauri a great pass, but the skipper failed to convert it this time. Just after that Hernanes fired a great shot from just outside the penalty area, only to see Zibung in the Luzern goal save the shot to a corner. Then Dias went close with a great header, and Cisse tested his shooting abilities after sprinting away from the defense, but once again the goalie managed to keep the ball out. On the following corner Klose was close to adding another goal to his tally, but despite a great Mauri cross the German showed also he can miss a sitter.
With the clock passing 90’ everyone was awaiting the final whistle from the referee, but the Lazio players had yet one more attempt in mind. Three minutes into the injury time Klose got the ball out to the left side of the penalty area, where Mauri caught the ball and finished the attack with a clinical shot. Once again the Luzern defense had missed in their marking, and there was nothing Zibung could do to avoid seeing Lazio make it 5-1. Shortly after the referee ended the game.
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