Inter and Lazio stuff themselves with goals, Roma stops. Saturday in the championship confirms the great growth of the Nerazzurri, brings the Biancocelesti back to victory and reiterates the continuity problems of the Giallorossi, the only ones not to win in the "triangle" that is played in the Champions League area. Verona and Benevento come out with broken bones from the away games at San Siro and Olimpico, while Bologna, on the other hand, after the trick on Inzaghi's team before the break, also plays another trick on Di Francesco's.
However, it was inevitable to start from Inter, who returned to winning and convincing just like in the first part of the championship, when they even managed to contend for the first places against Juventus and Napoli. Yesterday's performance in capital letters, along the lines of that of Genoa, once again (and it is certainly no coincidence) by Icardi and Perisic.
The first, after Marassi's 4 goals, scored two more (1' and 49'), the second settled for just one goal (13') topped off, however, with a kissing assist for the striker-captain. The Nerazzurri are thus back in Rome's wake, all with a derby to play (Wednesday, 18.30 pm) which could even be worth overtaking third place.
“It will be a very important match and obviously we will try to win it but woe to think we are healed – Spalletti said – Sometimes we get lost a bit, instead we have to remain eager and work day after day. Against Verona we had a strong impact and so we were then able to manage the match in the best possible way".
Roma, on the other hand, are losing ground, although their ranking still gives them a margin of safety from the red zone. Di Francesco had assured that his head would only be on Bologna and not on Barcelona, the decision to keep Dzeko on the bench went in the opposite direction.
And so Donadoni took the opportunity to take the lead (18' Pulgar) and manage a large part of the match, before the Bosnian bomber was thawed from the bench in place of the evanescent Schick and found the 1-1 goal with a head close together (76').
On balance they are two points lost, moreover with the aggravating circumstance of Nainggolan's injury, stopped by a problem with his flexors and in strong doubts for the trip to Barcelona.
“To say that we didn't win because of Schick is absurd, we all drew, not just him – replied Di Francesco – We found an opponent who only thought about defending himself, at the Camp Nou it will be different. I'm sorry for Radja, if someone like him asks for a change, it means that something has happened".
Instead, the other side of the capital smiles, with Lazio winning again at the expense of bottom-up Benevento. However, the 6-2 final must not deceive: for an hour the Biancocelesti trembled, so much so that the Giallorossi, despite being outnumbered (Puggioni sent off in the 9th minute), were even ahead thanks to goals from Cataldi (23'). and Guilherme (51'), who had overturned the initial 1-0 of the usual Immobile (19').
But then came Caicedo's draw (60') and from there Inzaghi's team dissolved enough to spread: De Vrij (66'), Immobile (68'), Lucas Leiva (83') and Luis Alberto ( 91') made the result almost tennis-like.
"I told the boys that it wouldn't be an easy match – the Lazio coach analyzed – We should have avoided conceding two goals, but then we were good at staying clear-headed and winning a very important match".
