Milan takes third place, Inter keep fourth. On Saturday in the championship, the Rossoneri overtook their "cousins" but also their sigh of relief in the Champions League zone: thanks to Lazio, who thanks to the 3-0 win in the derby prevent Roma from catching up with the Nerazzurri in classification. In short, a day full of emotions, which began with a victorious Milan against Sassuolo, albeit with many more problems expected. In fact, at San Siro, despite a great climate enthusiasm (over 61 thousand The spectators present), it has not been seen the foretold Rossoneri domination, indeed it was the Emilians who made the match and the final result, in the light of the game express, it's certainly better for Gattuso than for De Zerbi. Suffice it to say that the guests, despite being outnumbered for most of the second half (Councils were sent off in the 64th minute for a foul on Piatek), they ended up attacking, forcing the AC Milan fans into a thrilling finish. But in football, you know, only those who score goals are right and that, in one way or another, the Rossoneri did, at least in terms of match table: because it wasn't a Milan player but Lirola who punched the Emilian goal, who intervened, despite himself, in the worst possible way in an attempt to anticipate Piatek and Musacchio on the developments of a corner (35 ').
Therefore, there remains a very important victory which is worth overtaking Inter and a safety distance of 4 points over Roma, but also the feeling that, at least this time, the result and clean sheet were more the result of chance than real sporting merits. “Except only the result and the defensive phase, but there was an involution ahead – Gattuso acknowledged with his usual intellectual honesty. – Many tactical errors and confusion, this is not going and we need to improve. We mustn't get too excited because playing like this sooner or later the results don't come. Now we have to be good, we haven't been going through a positive moment for 10/15 days, we can only do one phase. We still have twelve championship finals to play, I don't want anyone to get excited, neither players nor fans. It's right festeggiare but what we are doing is not enough, we need to do more”. To hearten Rino however, in addition to the result of his Milan, there are those of the direct competitors in the Champions League area, because after Inter's defeat in Cagliari, Rome also arrived in the derby with Lazio. A humiliation more than a simple knockout: the final 3-0, after all, is an ineluctable sentence. And to think that the Giallorossi had the chance to regain the Champions League area, instead it was the Biancocelesti who got back into the running and now, in light of the game to be recovered against Udinese, they can really hope for fourth place again. Match dominated from the start for Inzaghi's men, much more on the ball despite numerous absences (even Immobile had to forfeit from the starting eleven) and the semi-final of the Italian Cup played just 4 days ago.
But derbies, as we know, are won above all on a mental level and Lazio, this time, presented themselves much more charged than Roma. The opening goal by caicedo (12') put the path downhill, that of Immobile (who took over shortly before right in Ecuadorian) on a penalty he leveled it (73 '), the third of Cataldi (89 ') he even transformed it into a party with strong white and blue colors, both for city supremacy and for a once again interesting ranking. “A result that can give us a lot of enthusiasm, we wanted to give a special evening to our wonderful fans: this victory will remain in the history of Lazio – Inzaghi's enthusiastic comment. - In the last month we slowed down due to injuries, without these drawbacks we would be closer to Milan and Rome. We will fight until the end, we will have to go on the pitch with this conviction and this heart”. Lots of joy in the house blue and white obviously counterbalances the sadness of the giallorossi, knocked out again right at the climax, when another result could have put the season back in order. It didn't go like this and now Di Francesco has to ask himself the reason for another humiliating defeat, the umpteenth of this strange Giallorossi season. “In the end it's a continuity of this year, we make too many mistakes – acknowledged the Roma coach bitterly. – We tried to work on these situations and improve them, but mentally this year it's going in a certain way. We have to improve the negative approach to the game, not you can underestimate a derby, Not it's there and I'm not". The Giallorossi just have to lick their wounds and think about Porto, the real watershed of the season: if it goes badly, Di Francesco would be in real trouble.
