CLAUDIO LOTITO AND LAZIO NEW PLAYERS PRESS CONFRENCE

Several days ago Lazio president Claudio Lotito gathered his new players, after the Union Ripa friendly match. Lotito told the attended press that he wanted a Lazio to battle on all championship, both in Italy and in Europe. And for that he went for more experienced international players on the market, with that extra quality to lift Lazio to a higher football level.

There was a part of the conference that the new players spoke about their new adventure at Lazio.

German striker, Miroslav Klose spoke that he was up to a new challenge. Even being one of the greatest strikers in German history, Klose was happy to leave Bayern Munchen and join to Lazio, a team with a great tradition, in one of biggest Leagues. He even spoke with Luca Toni (also former player of Bayern Munchen) about the difficulties of the Serie A, and how to outplay that.

Then, The Albanian Lorik Cana quoted Lazio as a big club in a big League, with ambition to do well in all 3 competities (Serie A, Coppa Italia and Europa League). Cana told the press that he preferes to play central in midfield, but he didn't mind playing elsewhere on the pitch.

Then, how about Djibril Cisse ? "Scudetto? Why not ?", only with those 3 words Djibril Cissé enough to  gathered all the attention at the press conference. Cissé said that Lazio has the individual players, and the collective play, to battle with all teams in Italy and Europe. And he even told that he was impressed by the reception at the airport, by the Lazio fans, on his arrival.

Lotito then ended the press conference, by telling that his Lazio will be marking a new decade for greater heights.

THE FINAL RESULT OF LAZIO WINTER MERCATO 2012

The winter mercato has just all over. Lazio had failed to bring Keisuke Honda to Olimpico despite the transfer was worth 13 million plus Juan Pablo Carrizo in added. By the way, the summary for the transfers of Lazio in winter mercato would shape up like this:
 

 














PLAYERS IN:

• Emiliano Alfaro – forward – bought
• Antonio Candreva – on loan

PLAYERS OUT:

• Ceccarelli - loan till the end of the season (Juve Stabia)
• Carrizo – loan with the right of buy (Catania)
• Del Nero - loan till the end of the season (Cesena)
• Cisse – sold to Queens’ Park Rangers
• Stendardo – loan till the end of the season (Atalanta)
• Cavanda – loan till the end of the season (Bari)
• Sculli – loan with option to buy (Genoa)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, LAZIALE..

 

Well, maybe it's just too late... But, I just want to do what I've never told to all Laziale before ^_^.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 TO SS LAZIO AND ALL LAZIALE ALL OVER THE WORLD

DJIBRIL CISSE TO QUEENS PARK RANGERS

Finally, the lion had been sold by Lazio. In the early of his arrival, many people believed that he will became the most important player for Lazio. But now, after a few month with Lazio he only scored also a few goal for the biancoceleste.

"At Lazio I was not played at my natrual position. I had to always play wide either on the left or the right, and that made me sad. I have come now to QPR to help the team climb up the table and earn my place back at the national team. If I can score 10 to 12 goals it would be great."

Lazio had been sold Cisse to QPR for 5 millions euro. According to the latest news, Cisse had played his first match with QPR and scored in his debut. Well, it seems you find a better club in england Cisse... Farewell!

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!”

FINALLY... THE FIRST VICTORY IN EUROPA LEAGUE THIS SEASON!!

Lazio: Federico Marchetti, Luciano Zauri (Abdoulay Konko 78), Stefan Andrei Radu, Andre Dias, Mobido Diakite, Cristian Ledesma, Lorik Cana, Senad Lulic (Christian Brocchi 46), Giuseppe Sculli, Miroslav Klose (Djibril Cisse 46), Tommaso Rocchi.

FC Zurich: Johnny Leoni, Mathieu Beda, Koch Philippe, Ricardo Rodriguez, Jorge Teixeira, Silvan Aegerter, Dusan Djuric (Marco Schonbachler 76), Yassine Chikhaoui (Ludovic Magnin 61), Chaker Zouaghi, Alexandre Alphonse, Admir Mehmedi (Amine Chermiti 66).

 Lazio gained their first victory in Europa League this season last night. With the pressure to keep the hopes up for advancing to the knock out stages of the Europa League, Lazio faced the Switzerland representatives in the matchday 4. FC Zurich came to Olimpico with a condition as same as Lazio. They only collect 2 points until matchday 3, with only draw twice and lost once.

In the first half, FC Zurich looked have more impressive play and Lazio again looked lacking energy and quality to get their first victory. Edy Reja finally gave Luciano Zauri to get his starting line up chance again, but He, again wasted it out. The first half showed the domination of Zurich. They tested Federico Marchetti in goal for several times. But, Marchetti showed his excellent performance. He successed to keep his goal with a clean sheet last night. 

Then, as the second half had been started, Lazio slowly grew into the game and FC Zurich never got back to the same dominance again in this match. Lazio started the second half with two player exchanges. Djibril Cisse was in to replace Klose and Christian Brocchi replaced the bosnian Lulic. I think these were excellent subtitutions who finally changed the match. In minute 62, Christian Brocchi got a cross flicked back to him by Cisse just outside the FC Zurich penalty area, and the midfielder struck the ball. On its way to goal the ball was deflected and Zurich's goalkeeper JohnnyLeoni stood no chance of saving the shot. 1-0 for Lazio!

 

 Brocchi scored a goal

  Brocchi's goal celebration

 

These three points are important to save the chance to advance through the next stage of the tournament.With this result, Lazio on the second position of Group D with only goal gap leading with Vaslui. On the other match in this group, Sporting Lisbon surprisingly took down by Vaslui. Then, started from now Vaslui will be the serious rival for Lazio to accomplish Sporting as the representative of group D to advance through the next stage of this tournament.

 Final Result

THREE POINTS FROM SANT ELIA

 Djibril Cisse

 

Cagliari: Agazzi, Pisani (69’ Perico), Canini, Ariaudo, Agostini, Biondini, Nainggolan, Ekdal (54’ Ibarbo), Cossu, Nenè, Thiago Ribeiro (86’ Larrivey). 

Lazio: Marchetti, Konko, Diakite, Dias, Radu, Brocchi (67’ Cana), Ledesma, Lulic, Hernanes (77’ Sculli), Cisse (84’ Rocchi), Klose. 

Lazio still hang up with the three giants of the Serie A this season. There are Juventus, Udinese and Milan. This week, Lazio went out to the Sicilia Island to faced the home team Cagliari. After their rival got the victories-Juventus won against Inter, Udinese won against Palermo and Milan won against Merda(YEAHHHH...!!!), Lazio also had to get a victory in order to hang up on the big three.

For Lazio goalkeeper, it was a special match when He faced his former club in the previous season for the first time. Lazio played with an average performance in this match. Lazio got two goals in the first half. Djibril Cisse was the man who set up them. Yeah, again He failed to score more goal,  but He contributed to create his teammate's goals. They scored the first goal through the Bosnian rising star Senad Lulic, while the second was scored by the German Bomber Miroslav Klose who has been scoring on a regular for the several last matches.

Another somehing special is owned by the Il Capitano, veteran striker Tomasso Rocchi. Finally, after some chances in several matches He scored the 100th goal for Lazio! The 34-year old player has been waiting since the qualifiers for Europa League to get another goal, making it 100 in the sky-blue shirt. He now belongs to a group of few Lazio players who throughout the years have managed to get 100 goals for the blue sky jersey. Well done Captain!!

With this result, Lazio is still on the third position behind Juventus and Udinese with 18 points. Biancoceleste have to be careful because they only got one point gap with the fourth position AC Milan. Lazio also have to be prepared because they have to play in Europa League on Thursday. FC Zurich awaits at Olimpico on that day.

 

JUMP TO THE SECOND PLACE...!!

Lazio showed that they are the serious rival for Juventus and Udinese to struggle the capolista position in Serie A this season. In last match, Lazio went to Bologna to face the home team. They succesed to earn full three points for the classification of Serie A.

Lazio started to lead in minute 23 after the Bologna striker, Robert Acquafresca scored an own goal when he's trying to block Hernanes' free kick. While the second goal of Lazio scored by Senad Lulic from his right foot shot. He move from the left side to the penalty area and after received a briliant assist from Djibril Cisse, He took the ball into the Bologna's net. This is the first goal of Lulic for Lazio.

With these three points, Lazio collect 14 points with only one point gap from the capolista this week, Udinese. Udinese took down Novara 3-0 in their last match of the week. While Juventus on the third position with 13 points after they got draw with Genoa.

THE EUFORIA...!! ^_^

 I want to share some pictures about the euforia of the last victory in derby de la capitale. Check them out...!!

Edy Reja:

 

Miroslav Klose:

 

 

 

 

 

Hernanes: