Lazio-Napoli 2-0: Immobile and Luis Alberto, Lozano’s injury

Surgical Lazio, listless and dazed Naples. Thus ends with the clear and deserved victory of the local team the evening postponement of the thirteenth day of Serie A. Lazio triumphs again at the Olimpico after almost two months (the last and only home victory in the League had been against Bologna on October 25). And more generally, Inzaghi’s team once again convinces and for the first time in this championship they beat one of the greats. For Napoli, however, a night to forget. Gattuso’s team is too influenced by the absences of Mertens, Insigne and Osimhen, it sinks immediately and does not react. An empty pass that your coach will surely not like.

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Major absences from both sides. Inzaghi cannot dispose of Leiva, Fares, Parolo and Correa. And in the pre-match they are joined by Acerbi who, during the warm-up, still feels pain in his recently injured muscle and prefers not to play. However, despite the absences, Lazio are off to a good start. The biancocelesti approach is strong-willed, while Napoli takes a while to find the right measures on the pitch. So the hosts take the opportunity to immediately put the arrow. The goal that unlocks the game comes in the 9th minute thanks to the usual Immobile who, in the center of Marusic, anticipates Maksimovic and puts her in the head. A couple of minutes before, the attacker had already touched the goal with a fine shot to the center of Lazzari. Inzaghi’s team insists and is also close to doubling with Luiz Felipe who, from a good position, heads the ball over the crossbar. However, after a quarter of an hour, the music changes. Napoli, step by step, takes control of operations in the midfield and becomes threatening from Reina. The goalkeeper, a great ex of the game, saves the advantage with two excellent interventions, first on Fabián Ruiz, then on Zielinski. The home team, however, is not just watching, it leaves the initiative to the guests and then tries to hit with restarts. In one of these it is Caicedo who comes very close to scoring.

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The script does not change in the second half. Napoli, who have to come back, maintain the initiative and Lazio take a throw-in. Except that, compared to the second half of the first fraction, the home team is much more cunning. It gives practically nothing and is lethal on reboots. Specifically with the one that at 10 ‘allows him to go 2-0. Escalante recovers the ball in the middle of the field, immediately orders it for Immobile who leans on Luis Alberto who puts Ospina on. For Napoli it is a hard blow to swallow and in fact Gattuso’s team does not rise. The technician tries to revive her with the changes. Enter Elmas, Manolas, Lobotka, Ghoulam, and Malcuit. But the inertia of the game does not change. As the minutes go by, Lazio controls better and better and runs the risk of spreading. Inzaghi’s changes are conservation. Inside Muriqi (around the corner), then Cataldi, Pereira, Patric and Akpa Akpro. And it is Pereira in the final that is approaching 3-0. It would have been an excessive punishment for Napoli.