LOST TWO POINTS IN OLIMPICO TWICE!!

SERIE A 2011/2012 MATCHDAY 15 & 16

LAZIO 2 VS UDINESE 2

LAZIO 0 VS CHIEVO 0

Lazio had lost two points twice when they were playing in Olimpico against Udinese in Sunday and Chievo in Wednesday. Against Udinese, Lazio actually lead in the second half 2-1 until the ex player of biancoceleste Gian Piero Pinzi scored his equalizer goal. Senad Lulic and Miroslav Klose, once again showed up as the scorers for the Edy Reja's squad.

Just three days later after the matchday against Udinese, Lazio face the matchday 16 of Serie A. They still played in their home, Stadio Olimpico. But, the opponent they face now was Chievo Verona.

Actually, Lazio dominated this match over the guest team. But unfortunately, the imperfect finishing of Lazio players made some chances that they had, gain nothing. Edy Reja, even said that match against Chievo was the worst match that Lazio ever played this season.

Then, finally Lazio ended this year with two draw results that brought them only two points. Lazio still held on the fourth position behind the capolista Juventus and Milan with 4 points gap. Udinese on the third position with 2 points gap with Lazio.

ADVANCE THROUGH THE NEXT ROUND!!

EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/2012 MATCHDAY 6

LAZIO 2 VS SPORTING LISBON 0

Lazio: Albano Benjamin Bizzarri, Giuseppe Biava, Mobido Diakite, Luis Pedro Cavanda, Cristian Ledesma, Lorik Cana (Alvaro Gonzals 53'), Senad Lulic,, Hernanes, Djibril Cissé, Giuseppe Sculli, Libor Kozak (Miroslav Klose 85')

Sporting Lisbon: Boeck Marcelo, Oguchi Onyewu (Joao Mario 76'), Santos Fabiano Evaldo, Tiago Ilori, Stijn Schaars (Filipe Daniel Carrico 69'), Marques Alexandre Bruno Pereirinha, Filipe Andre Santos, Renato Andre Martins, Valeri Bojinov, Diego Rubio (Emiliano Insua 65'), Andre Carrillo. 

Lazio finally advance through the next round of Europa League this season. In the last matchday, Lazio had a really good luck! They had a victory over Sporting and also had a good result in another match of the group D. Yes, their rival in this group Vaslui had defeated by the switzerland FC Zurich.

Before the match, Lazio had the toughest of paths if the team wanted to advance from the group stage of Europa League and avoid another humiliating early exit. Not only was a win needed against the strongest side of the group, but also an already eliminated FC Zurich had to get a result against Romanians Vaslui, the team that would kick Lazio out of the tournament with a win in Switzerland.

In this match, coach Edy Reja played some secondary players, even primavera players. He took the strategy because he had to keep the starting players fresh until the match against Udinese in Serie A. But, it could not avoid Lazio to gain a victory over the Portuguese team. Lazio got the scores from Libor Kozak in the first half and Giuseppe Sculli in the second half.

After the draw for the next round match of Europa League, Lazio announced that they will face the Spanish giant Atletico Madrid. Atletico had already met another Italian club Udinese in the group stage before. The first leg will be played at Olimpico in Rome on 16 February 2012, then one week later, Edy Reja's men will travel to Madrid for the second leg on 23 February.

Last time Lazio played Atletico Madrid was in the UEFA Cup in 1997-98. Lazio beat Atletico Madrid in the semi finals 1-0 over two legs with a goal from Vladimir Jugovic. Lazio and Atletico Madrid have also had some great players in common. Players like Cristian Vieri, Diego Simeone, Vladimir Jugovic & Matías Lequi have played for both clubs.

If Lazio should beat Atletico Madrid over two matches they will play the winner from Besiktas and Sporting Braga.

DEAD OR ALIVE...!!!

EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/2012

LAZIO VS SPORTING LISBON

Lazio will face the decisive matchday in Europa League tonight. In Olimpico, Lazio will face the Portuguese Sporting Lisbon in the last matchday of group D. But, the problem for Lazio is three points are not enough to advance through the next round. Lazio still needs the supported result in the other game between Zurich and Vaslui.

In the classification of group D, Lazio now collect the same point with the Romanian Vaslui. But, Vaslui lead on the second place because they have head to head leading with Lazio. So, eventhough Lazio success to gain a victory over Sporting, it would be useless if Vaslui also gain a victory over Zurich. In this last matchday, Lazio need to win and hope that Vaslui will fail to gain a victory over Zurich.

The other problem is about the selection of players for this match. Should Edy Reja play the full strength or should he rest players that have been playing frequently lately? With Udinese waiting on Sunday night, in a game crucial for the rest of the domestic campaign, we can argue that this is a dilemma which Edy Reja should face...

BAD PERFORMED MATCH WITH A VICTORY

Lorik Cana

SERIE A 2011/2012 MATCHDAY 14

LECCE 2 VS LAZIO 3

Miroslav Klose

Lecce: Massimiliano Benassi, Stefano Ferrario, Nenad Tomovic (Manuel Giandonato 47), Djamel Mesbah, Massimo Oddo, Ruben Olivera, Guillermo Giacomazzi, Christian Obodo, David Di Michele, Juan G. Cuadrado (Carlos Grossmüller  56), Luis Murial (Ignacio Piatti 81)

Lazio: Federico Marchetti (Juan Pablo Carrizo 62), Giuseppe Biava (Lorik Cana 46), Mobido Diakite, Stefan Radu, Marius Stankevicius, Cristian Ledesma, Hernanes, Senad Lulic, Alvaro Gonzslez, Miroslav Klose, Tommaso Rocchi (Djibril Cisse 46)

Lazio continued their journey in Serie A in matchday 14 of Serie A last saturday. Lazio had to go to Lecce to face the home team who had just replaced their coach from Eusebio DiFrancesco to Serse Cosmi recently.

Marchetti's injury

In this match, Lazio gained another victory to collect more three points in classification. But, unlike the several match before, this time the defense line showed their bad performance. While the forward line saved this victory through Miroslav Klose with his two goals. What's wrong with Lazio's defense?

Luckily, The goalkeeper Federico Marchetti was also showed his best performance to keep the goal of Lazio. He saved several Lecce's important chances to threat Lazio's goal. But, his struggle ended when He got an injury in second half. His position replaced by Juan Pablo Carrizo.

Klose's first goal

Lecce got lead first through penalty kick of David DiMichele. But, Miroslav Klose equalized the scored after he received an assist from Mobido Diakite. With an average performance in this match, surprisingly Lazio got lead through Lorik Cana used the assist from Miroslav Klose. This is his first goal with Lazio shirt! Lecce not given up, and finally they could equalize the score through Ferrario's heading. The score was 2-2!

Cana's first goal

Miroslav Klose

With only three minutes remaining from the normal time, Miroslav Klose once again showed up as the savior with his goal to take a victory for Lazio. It started from Djibril Cisse, who sent a crossing to the centre of Lecce's defense. Klose jumped and headed the ball. The Lecce's goalkeeper Massimiliano Benassi could not reach the ball and that was the third goal of Lazio! 2-3 for Lazio's victory.

Lazio now still on the fourth position, but there is progress. Now, Lazio only have two points gap with the capolista Juventus and Udinese. Lazio also have the same point with the third postion Milan. Lazio's chance to after the capolista position is more widely open. Forza Lazio!!

Edy Reja's men

IL CAPITANO E TORNATO!!

SERIE A 2011/2012 MATCHDAY 13

LAZIO 3 VS NOVARA 0

Lazio: Federico Marchetti, Marius Stankevicius, Giuseppe Biava, Stefan Radu, Abdoulay Konko (Lionel Scaloni 82), Cristian Ledesma, Hernanes (Lorik Cana 64), Senad Lulic, Alvaro González, Miroslav Klose, Tommaso Rocchi (Djibril Cisse 78)

Novara: Samir Ujkani, Carlo Alberto Ludi, Matteo Centurioni, Santiago Garcia, Michel Morganella, Ivan Radovanovic (Simon Pesce 55), Marco Rigoni, Andrea Mazzarani (Luigi Giorgi 76), Filippo Porcari, Pablo Granoche (Jeda 63), Raffaele Rubino

Il capitano e tornato!! Yes, The captain is back!! Tommaso Rocchi scored two goals for Lazio in matchday 13 of Serie A last night. Played in their own home, Lazio took down the guest team Novara 3-0.

After several dissapointed results before this match, finally Lazio presented a victory to their fans in home. In this match, Lazio dominated the game.It was only need 15 minutes to create a nice chance. Received a through pass from Senad Lulic, Tommaso Rocchi was on position to score the opening goal. But unfortunately, he missed the chance.The Novara goalkeeper, Samir Ujkani blocked the ball.

Biava's Goal

Lazio opened the score one minute after Rocchi's gold chance. Giuseppe Biava succeed to create his first goal of the season. He converted Hernanes' corner into a goal through his heading. Lazio then added the second goal in minute 23 through the captain Tommaso Rocchi. Once more, the goal created by heading. But, this time the goal was converted from Cristian Ledesma's free kick by Rocchi. The first half ended with Lazio's lead 2-0.

Lazio still dominated in the second half. They got some chances, but could'nt result into a goal until minute 72. Alvaro Gonzales sent the ball to Rocchi, then with his right foot the captain created his second goal in this match. Six minutes later, Djibril Cisse in to substituted the captain. Cisse got a chance to make the score 4-0 but unfortunately, the ball only hit the post.

Well, finally Lazio return to their real form in this match. The forward line had done their good job. As same as the defense line. Federico Marchetti, again presented a clean sheet in this match. He keeps the briliant goalkeeping until now. The midfielders also did a good job. Hernanes, Ledesma and Gonzales created all of the assists. With this result,  Lazio held on the fourth position with 25 points behind the capolista holder Juventus (29 points) and the second place Milan and Udinese (27 points).

CISSE APOLOGIZE TO LAZIALE

After the match against Vaslui in Europa League, Lazio forward Djibril Cisse expressed his frustration through Twitter. He called all the people who criticize him with bad words like idiots, haters and ****ers.

Actually, Cisse’s career at Lazio started very well. He scored a goal against Milan in the opener match of Serie A and the qualification of Europa League against Rabotnicki, made couple of assists, but over all people are expecting more from him. He is also not scored although it's just one goal recently. All this is getting to him and it led to the Twitter tweet.

But, now the French Lion uses the same media (Twitter) to clear all the things out: “I never insulted the fans of Lazio and I will never do it. They have supported me and still are. And to the real fans I want to say I will never do to you anything bad, I respect you and will fight for you until the end! Forza Lazio for ever!”

PRIMAVERA: ASCOLI 0 VS LAZIO 3

LAZIO: Mosciatti, Ilari, Serpieri, Vilkaitis, Sbraga, Zampa, Barreto, Cilfone, Tira (15' Rozzi), Cataldi (38’ De Francesco), Emmanuel (42’ Vivacqua).

Although played without some injured players, Lazio junior squad gained a victory against Ascoli in the opponent's home.Danilo Cataldi and Antonio Rozzi scored in the first half for Biancoceleste. While Gonzalo Barreto scored in the second half to made the score 0-3. for the winning of the guest team.

DRAW IN ROMANIA...

EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/2012 MATCHDAY 5

VASLUI 0 VS LAZIO 0

Once again, a dissapointed result gained by Lazio in Europa League Championship this season. In the last matchday against Vaslui in Romania, Lazio only gained one point from a draw result.

From this match, I conclude that the forward line of Lazio had a problem!! Lazio actually dominated this match eventhough they played in opponent's home. But, no goal gained by the Edy Reja's squad.

 

With this result, both of Lazio and Vaslui collect the same point in the classification of group D. Vaslui have to win against FC Zurich in the next matchday if they want to get through accompany the group leader, Sporting Lisbon. While Lazio need to strugglle hardly because they have to face Sporting in the last matchday of this group.

Edy Reja no need to be worry about the defense line because Federico Marchetti is going on to show his world class goalkeeping to keep the Lazio's goal clear. Reja needs to give attention more to the forward line because if they want to win, the forward line must to play like a hungry predator in that match.