THE EUFORIA AFTER THE SEMIFINAL OF COPPA ITALIA

Here are the pictures that sign euforia of Lazio after defeat Juventus in the second leg Semifinal of Coppa Italia last Tuesday. at Olimpico Stadium.

ADVANCE TO THE GROUP STAGE OF EUROPA LEAGUE 2012/2013!!

EUROPA LEAGUE 2012/2013

QUALIFICATION ROUND SECOND LEG

LAZIO 3 VS MURA 05 1

Lazio: Bizzarri, Scaloni, Biava, Dias, Cavanda, Hernanes (78’ Konko), Onazi, Gonzalez (60’ Rozzi), Lulic (69’ Candreva), Kozak, Zarate.

Mura 05: Drakovic; Traviner, Marusko, Kramar, Horvath; Majer, Eterovic, Vas, Janza; Bohar, Fajic.

Lazio faced the second leg of the qualification round of Europa League this season in a smooth way. Against Mura 05, Lazio booked a double break to the Romanian team. After won the first leg in Maribor, now Lazio once again defeated Mura in Olimpico.

Lazio's coach, Vladimir Petkovic put some first team players outfield and gave some chances to the reserved players. Albano Bizzarri stood out below the goal, Scaloni and Cavanda played on the side back. Onazi and Gonzalez accompanied Hernanes and Lulic on the midfield. While Mauro Zarate duet with Libor Kozak on the front line.

Two spears in Lazio side scored the goals that night. Kozak with two goals and Zarate with one goal.

 

PRE SEASON MATCH: LAZIO 2 VS MALMO 1

Before heading into a two-legged tie against Mura 05 in the qualifications for Europa League Lazio welcomed Malmö of Sweden to a close to empty Stadio Olimpico.

Actually, on paper Lazio should have gained a victory easily. But, the fact was different. Lazio only got two goals, all of them were come from penalty kick of Hernanes and Libor Kozak's chance in the last minute after took Zarate's corner.

Stefano Mauri tweeted on Twitter about this game; "Good game against Malmoe which boosts morale before the football that matters, which is about to begin." While the coach Petkovic said, "Lazio played well against Malmo and dominated the match".

In a week Lazio will travel to Maribor to kick off the season. Many question marks remain and even further have been added today. Like I say before, this team is kinda worrying to play around next season. Ederson is the only new man in this team. A free transfer man. Lazio is wandering the transfer market this sumnmer with empty result. Four lost in a row in friendly match and only gain victory over mediocre team are not good results for Lazio in this pre season time.

 

 

PRE SEASON MATCH: AURONZO 0 VS LAZIO 14

After five days training in Auronzo, Lazio held a pre season match against a local team. As same as the last year, Lazio won the match easily. The score is 14-0 for Lazio!

Lazio 4-4-2 (first half): Marchetti; Zauri, Stendardo, Dias, Scaloni; Mauri, Ledesma, Ederson, Candreva; Floccari, Rocchi

Bench: Berardi, Bizzarri, Carrizo*, Biava, Cana, Cavanda, Diakitè, Garrido, Konko, Gonzalez, Hernanes, Lulic, Alfaro, Kozak, Rozzi, Zarate

*Carrizo was the only one that did not play.

AURONZO TRAINING CAMP 2012

Lazio already started their pre season training camp for this year. Same with the previous year, Petkovic's men held the training camp in Auronzo di Cadore. Now, let's check out their pictures while in Auronzo di Cadore!

Garrido and Diakite

Ederson and Diakite

Senad Lulic and Alfaro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lost boy, Mauro Zarate

Sergio Floccari

A GLORY IN THE LAST FIXTURE

Biava VS Milito

SERIE A 2011 / 2012 MATCHDAY 38

LAZIO 3 VS INTERNAZIONALE 1

Lazio: Bizzarri, Scaloni, Diakite, Biava, Konko, Cana, Ledesma, Candreva (92’ Zampa), Mauri (93’ Garrido), Lulic (83’ Gonzalez), Kozak.

Inter: Castelazzi, Maicon, Lucio, Samuel, Nagatomo, Zanetti, Cambiasso, Poli (76’ Longo), Alvarez (61’ Pazzini), Guarin, Milito.

The last fixture had been passed successfully! Yes, Lazio brought a glory to all Laziale that attended Olimpico Stadium last night. Three goals from Libor Kozak, Antonio Candreva and Stefano Mauri became the Lazio's last goals of the season.

In the end of first half, Lazio had been left behind by the guest team after Diego Milito scored a goal from penalty spot. The referee gave a penalty kick for Inter after Ledesma did a bad bad bad tackle to Maicon in the penalty area.

Kozak celebrated his goal

Kozak and Edy Reja

But, Ledesma paid his error with one assist to Libor Kozak through a corner kick in minute 59. That was the equalizer goal for Biancoceleste. The young striker celebrated his goal with minimalist emotion. His role to replace Klose's position gave him another goal in Serie A this season.

In this match, I was really immpressed with both Candreva and Lulic movements on the field. The two players are the best players of Lazio last night! Just four minutes after Kozak's goal, both of them cooperated to create the second goal for Lazio. Lulic run on the left side area and succeed to pass through Maicon and He sent the ball to Candreva on the centre area. Amazing! Candreva shot the ball into the Castelazzi's net.

Candreva celebrated his goal

Candreva, Mauri and Kozak

Mauri and Candreva -the third goal-

Il Capitano Stefano Mauri completed Lazio's glory last night with his goal in the added times. So, the score turned to 3-1 for the home team. Nerazzurri continued to attack in the last minutes, but forget the Lazio defense who successfully exploited to score the third goal. Mauri successfully deceive Castellazzi after working together nicely with the Kozak. Then  Mauri expressed his emotion to the Curva Nord to celebrate with all of Laziale.

With this victory, Lazio get the fourth positionon the last standings of Serie A this season, because Udinese won over Catania. Fail to get the last ticket to Champions League next season. But, Europa League is not bad. Lazio finally can join a European championship next season after some of the issues affected the team throughout the season.

Wrong manuever in winter mercato by the management and endless catastrophic injuries that affected several Lazio players had caused the inconsistency of Lazio's performance. Without the problems, I think that Lazio deserved better position on the last standings. So, we need to thanks the coach Edy Reja for his hard work and of course for the players who have struggled throughout the season.


GRAZIE!! ^_^

FINALLY... A VICTORY...

 SERIE A 2011 / 2012 MATCHDAY 37

ATALANTA 0 VS LAZIO 2

Atalanta: Frezzolini, Bellini, Stendardo, Manfredini, Peluso, Schelloto (80’ Carrozza), Cigarini, Carmona (51’ Minotti), Bonaventura (65’ Gabbiadini), Moralez, Denis.

 
Lazio: Bizzarri, Konko, Diakite, Scaloni, Garrido (21’ Zauri), Gonzalez, Cana, Lulic (89’ Onazi), Mauri, Candreva, Kozak (65’ Klose). 
 

Libor Kozak's Celebration

After some depressive matches, Lazio finally met again with a victory. In matchday 37 of Serie A, Lazio faced Atalanta in Bergamo. This victory made Lazio keep on surviving in the last Champions League ticket race with Udinese, Napoli and Internazionale.

The home team actually started their performance in this match better from the guest team. They also won the ball possesion over Lazio. But poor for Atalanta, Lazio managed to lead in the first half after Libor Kozak scored a goal. After Kozak's goal, Lazio couldn't manage to add their leading until Lorik Cana scored an amazing goal in the last minutes of the match.

Lorik Cana

The German Bomber showed up again...

Senad Lulic also showed up again...

This match really brought some fresh air to Lazio side. This is the first victory from the recent five matches of Lazio. In this match, you can also see the return of two Lazio's hero; Senad Lulic and Miroslav Klose. Yes, they are back into the field! Lulic played his position from the beginning of the match. In minute 89, He replaced by Onazi-one of Lazio youngster-. While Klose got in to the field to replace Kozak in minute 65. I hope they will bring the Lazio's glory in the final fixture next week!

Eventhough Lazio still only on the fourth position behind Udinese, but Lazio still have a chance in the last fixture against Inter to take Udinese's position on the third.

THE MIRACLE DIDN'T COME...

 SERIE A 2011 / 2012 MATCHDAY 32

JUVENTUS 2 VS LAZIO 1

Juventus: Buffon, Lichsteiner, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, Vidal (80’ Giacherrini), Pirlo, Marchisio, Pepe (72’ Matri), Quagliarella, Vucinic (72’ Del Piero).

Lazio: Marchetti, Scaloni, Diakite, Biava, Garrido, Cana, Ledesma, Gonzalez (81’ Brocchi), Mauri  (72’ Hernanes), Candreva, Rocchi (74’ Kozak).

As I could tell before in the last article, Lazio indeed need a miracle to win the match against Juventus. You know that Lazio have been unstable for several matches before, while Juventus is an unbeatable giant in Serie A until now. 

In a game where Lazio scored on the only dangerous attempt over 90 minutes, and with the Old Lady attacking over and over again it would be a quite nice match that Lazio can bring 1 point from Turin. It was a one sided game, where Juventus attacked, and Lazio tried to defend. When Lazio succeed to keep the Marchetti's goal clear from the start of the second half until the minute 80's, I think the match would be ended with draw result, but the veteran Alessandro Del Piero scored from a  free kick eight minutes from time sealed the victory for Juventus.

Stefano Mauri scored the only goal for the guest team in the end of the first half through his header. Believe or not, it was the first shot on goal for Lazio in this match. T_T ... Lazio finally really get lost of their hope when Libor Kozak sent off after receive the second yellow card in the last minutes of this match.

But, there was a lucky for Lazio where the rivals also got the same results. Both Udinese and Napoli got lost in this matchday. So, Lazio is still on the third position and Udinese on the fourth while Roma Merda increased their position on to the fifth.

A PUNISHMENT FROM FLOCCARI

SERIE A 2011 / 2012 MATCHDAY 30

PARMA 3 VS LAZIO 1

Parma: Mirante, Zaccardo, Paletta, Lucarelli (90’ Santacroce), Biabiany, Mariga, Valdes, Galloppa, Gobbi, Giovinco, Floccari

Lazio: Marchetti, Konko, Biava, Dias (15’ Scaloni), Radu, Gonzalez, Ledesma, Matuzalem, Mauri (69’ Hernanes), Kozak, Rocchi (62’ Alfaro). 

Lazio had suffered their ninth lost last week when they went to Ennio Tardini against Parma. More tragically, two goals of Parma had scored by Sergio Floccari, Lazio ex-player.

As if want to punish his former club, Floccari showed great perform in this match. Created some chances that threatened Marchetti's goal, finally He scored two goals to bring his current club three points.

After this match, Lazio's position was threatened by Napoli and Udinese, two teams with only three points behind Lazio. Fortunately, they had same losts. Napoli was knocked down by Juventus 3-0, while Udinese had taken down by Siena 1-0.

Lazio had left behind 0-2 in only 12 minutes. Mariga and Floccari scored in the first half. Lazio scored their sole goal from speculation shot of Lionel Scaloni after took a pass from Libor Kozak. But, Floccari added his goal in the second half that made this match ended with score 3-1 for the home team.

KLOSE IS INJURY, OUT FOR A MONTH

There is a bad news!! Lazio have been hit by a news that Miroslav Klose's injury is as bad as expected and the German will be out for up to a month. The injury couldn't come at a worse time as Lazio are being pushed to the brink for the final Champions League slot. Klose is likely to miss key clashes with Napoli and Juventus.

Following the sales of Cisse and Sculli in winter mercato, Lazio will only have to depend on Tommaso Rocchi, Libor Kozak and the new boy Emilliano Alfaro upfront.