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One goal and one point each. Like good brothers, Pippo and Simone, Benevento and Lazio avoid hurting themselves too much. In fact, they do not do their thing, even if the equal, right at the end, is not exactly what was expected. Lazio, which has left too many points in the championship. Luxury that now that the Champions League lets him breathe, he can no longer afford, however.
Ready, set and the cliché of the game is immediately clear. There Lazio takes possession of the ball and does not release it and the Benevento, on the other hand, he retreats hoping that the right play splashes the counter. As much as Pippo Inzaghi he studied and prepared the game this way, not this way. It is that the little brother who is in the bench of Lazio is out of breath; it grants you little or nothing; He carries the ball quickly from one side to the other and forces him to run crazy and suffer. In short, it is a living Lazio. Who enjoys the game changes of Milinkovic and the elegant direction of discovery Luis Alberto and who feels the need not to waste other opportunities to score points. Play, Lazio. He plays to win and maybe even to forget that infamous draw that marked him a date with Bayern in the Champions League.
Bad business for Benevento that manages to offer little or nothing. He is forced to meet as rarely happens, but as soon as he can, he starts over. And as if starting over! So much so that after six minutes it’s the Benevento get within fifty centimeters of the goal. Corner, shot in the area and ball to the far post where Lapadula is stationed. And there he goes, head on, Lapadula. But he goes limp and Reina puts up a hand to save everyone and then even a foot when Glik tries to fuck him three seconds later.
So is: Lazio dominates, but Benevento becomes very dangerous when they manage to put the nose beyond the midfield, where the biancazzurri voted highly in favor of attacking, obviously leaving ample space. But what an effort, however, to get rid of that endless dribble from Lazio. That is close to scoring, with Luis Alberto who (22 ‘) does it all alone but finishes his beautiful walk on the post and then passes. With him, with Still, extraordinary for stealing time from Giallorossi’s defenders and deflecting a suggestion from the right under the crossbar than usual Milinkovic. Lazio reaps what it has sown. At least it seems so. Because the advantage slows down his movements a bit and Benevento does not wait to try to straighten the result. In fact, Pippo’s training requires field and courage.
Try again with Lapadula but with the right you never go far and with Caprari from a distance that forces Reina to save in the corner. Which is no small thing for Benevento, an expert in scoring in the development of set pieces. And so it is also this time. Corner, slightly rejected and Schiattarella (who scored the last goal of his life when he was at Spal) from the edge slides into the corridor only to get the ball into the goal. Virtually nothing of the rest of the game returns to a draw. And at this point this also seems correct, because if it is true that Lazio have always owned the ball, it is also true that compared to all that possession then they built little to ensure the result. To close the game, in short, while Benevento makes the most of his suffering and restarts in the best of cases.
I miss, however, the ball. Because when the game starts again it’s another story. More open teams, longer, more combat than reasoning. And try to understand if you see another football because Lazio takes a step back and also finds some of its ghosts from the past, or if it is Benevento to take a step forward. Of course, Brother Pippo’s lineup now manages to build a bit of the game from the bottom up. In short, it is close to its usual model. Yes, now there is more game. However, with the feeling that all that dribbling from the first half to the end, paradoxically, made Lazio gasp more than Benevento. And less the Giallorossi midfielders who are now very animated, although there is never extra time for the two goalkeepers.
Foulon per Tuia. But above all Improta for Insigne and Iago Falque for Lapadula are the novelties at Beneventor. Sure: Pippo looks for freshness and vivacity in attack. He sees Lazio tired and with some geometry and organization problems and he wants to take advantage of it. More conservative little brother Simone. For him, Patric instead of Luiz Felipe who has just been reprimanded and nothing else until half-time and beyond. Perhaps too little to cope with the greater vivacity of the Giallorossi. Faster, faster Benevento football, especially in the middle of the field, where especially Luis Alberto no longer has the strength and clarity of primto. In short, an uncertain balance. Anything can happen in the final.
And then Inzaghi, Simone, takes courage in two hands and makes three changes at once: Cataldi, Caicedo and Pereira by Escalante, Radu and Luis Alberto. While Pippo responds with Di Serio for Caprari and Dabo for Hetemaj. The teams are reorganized, the brothers coach. And it is a scare for Lazio – with a long nose even for a hand in Letizia’s area not judged from a penalty – that with Pereira it becomes dangerous twice in one minute. The Brazilian attacking midfielder could have done better, that’s true. But even Improta with nothing from the end finds the opportunity to score in his head and sends. In short, an agile, lively, confusing, perhaps electric, but still exciting final, with Benevento still in full recovery with ten for a direct red and right to Schiattarella.
TABLE
Benevento-Lazio 1-1 (first half 1-1)
Markers: 25 ‘Immobile (L), 45’ Schiattarella (B)
Benevento (4-3-2-1): Montipò; Letizia, Tuia (45 ‘Foulon), Glik, Barba; Ionite, Schiattarella, Hetemaj (80 ‘Dabo); Insigne (61 ‘Improta), Caprari; Lapadula (71 ‘Iago Falque). All. F. Inzaghi
Lazio (3-5-2): Queen; Luiz Felipe (58 ‘Patric), Hoedt, Radu (80’ Caicedo); Lazzari, Milinkovic-Savic, Escalante (80 ‘Cataldi), Luis Alberto (80’ Pereira), Marusic; Property, Correa. Herds S. Inzaghi
Referee: Pairetto de Nichelino
Expelled: 93 ‘Schiattarella (B)
Ammonites: 23 ‘Tuia (B), 29’ Lapadula (B), 54 ‘Luiz Felipe (L), 94’ Patric (L)
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