PETKOVIC SATISFIED ENOUGH WITH DRAW RESULT AT RENZO BARBERA

SERIE A 2012 / 2013 MATCHDAY 21

PALERMO 2 VS LAZIO 2

Palermo: Ujkani; Von Bergen, Aronica, (Munoz 46) Garcia; Morganella, (Anselmo 65) Arevalo Rios, Kurtic, Dossena; Ilicic; (Malele 79) Dybala, Miccoli

Lazio: Marchetti; Biava, Cana, Ciani; Radu, (Candreva 73) Cavanda, Ledesma, (Kozak 80) Hernanes, Lulic; (Gonzalez 68) Mauri; Floccari

Lazio's move in Italian Serie A race held by Sicilian squad Palermo last night. With several key players that didn't play such as Miroslav Klose, Antonio Candreva, Alvaro Gonzalez, Abdoulay Konko and Andre Dias, Lazio had tied score against Gasperini's men at Renzo Barbera Stadium.

Actually, Lazio lead first in the first half as Sergio Floccari scored his second goal in Serie A this season through amazing header. Cristian Ledesma sent a briliant cross to the Palermo's penalty box, then Floccari simply placed the ball to the unreachable position of Palermo's goalkeeper Samir Ujkani.

But, in the second half Lazio shocked by two goals of Palermo in only two minutes through Arevalo Rios and Paulo Dybala. It turned the lead into the Palermo side. Luckily, Lazio got a penalty gift from the referee after Sergio Floccari had been taken down by Palermo's defender. Hernanes took the penalty chance well to equalize the score.

This is not really good result for Lazio in effort to chase Juventus on the top position of classification. The gap is now increase to five points after Juventus won the clash against Udinese last night. But, the positive thing is Lazio succeed to stretch the unbeaten run to 15 matches in all competition this season.

While Lazio coach Vladimir Petkovic said that he satisfied enough with this result, "At the end, the draw result is fair enough. Both teams are proper to win and lose in this match. The main problem is we were too defended in playing and failed to play the desireable tactic."

Now, Lazio have to focus to semifinal of Coppa Italia match against Juventus on Tuesday. Miroslav Klose and Abdoulay Konko are expected to be fit enough to play in that match. Andre Dias and Alvaro Gonzalez seems to be filled their position again after they had been only sat on the bench against Palermo last night.

Come on eagles!! Struggle to the final of Coppa Italia and give laziale trophies this season! FORZA LAZIO!!