Rome is tinged with biancoceleste and Juventus thanks. Inzaghi's 3-1 Lazio win over Spalletti's Giallorossi turns into a beautiful and good assist for the Lady, who is now ever closer to a sixth consecutive Scudetto. Goodbye dreams of glory for Roma, which indeed must watch their backs as never before: Napoli are back just one point away and even second place is at great risk.
“We just have to shut up and swallow all the criticisms – Spalletti commented – We also started well, then we conceded goals and felt the backlash. That's how it went, but now we need to roll up our sleeves: we know we can do much better and we will continue to work to achieve it".
The knockout in the derby is one of those who weigh and not only for ranking issues, however decisive. The risk is to throw away an entire season, which without second place (with eliminations in the Champions League, Europa League and Italian Cup attached) would have the bitter taste of failure. Once again Roma dissolved in the most important moment, proving to be far from complete maturation.
On the other hand, those who enjoy it, Juve and Naples aside, are obviously Lazio, author of a great test and capable of playing another trick on their cousins after the one in the Italian Cup. The Biancocelesti gave themselves city dominance and a very important fourth place in the standings, confirming the excellent work done by Inzaghi, someone who, ironically, shouldn't even have been on that bench. Yesterday's 3-1, which arrived despite the disasters of referee Orsato (Denied two penalties to Lazio and conceded a non-existent one to Roma), is the consecration of his work, made of so much substance and few, very few frills.
"It's a well-deserved victory, the lads were very good - his analysis - We had prepared the game well and we reaped the rewards on the pitch, now we're going on like this: we want to end the championship in the best possible way and try to annoy Juve in the final Italian Cup".
Very tense match that of the Olimpico, in perfect derby style of the Capital. Roma seemed to have started him better but in the 12th minute Keita made his first great play, very good at kicking under Emerson's legs and killing Szczesny. The Giallorossi managed to get back into the game at the end of the first half thanks to a gift from Orsato, who whistled a non-existent penalty for Strootman which De Rossi coolly converted (45').
At the start of the second half, however, Lazio were back with Basta, who scored also thanks to a deflection by Fazio (50'): from then on, Roma poured into attack and the Biancocelesti could thus enjoy space and counter-attacks, real specialties of the house. And in fact, after coming close to the 3-1 several times, they found it with the usual Keita, cold in beating Szczesny again on an assist from Lulic (85 ').
Lazio triumph and Rome tears, with great satisfaction of Juventus and Napoli: further headaches for Spalletti, forced to get up as soon as possible in order not to end the season on his knees.
