Lazio suffers for half an hour against Spezia, unlocks the game thanks to a favorable episode and closes the match in the second half with a 0-3 round. Di Immobile on a penalty, Anderson and Marcos Antonio the goals that are worth 61 points in the standings and the consolidation of second place. Patric for Casale is the only change made by Sarri compared to the eleven that beat Juventus.
Semplici deploys the setter Esposito in midfield to remedy the lack of dynamic midfielders and try to contain Milinkovic. Lazio does not sink the pressure, Spezia manages the ball calmly and builds two good chances, with Bourabia (2′), who hits the crossbar deflecting a low cross from Ekdal from the heart of the area, and Nzola (12′) served by the Moroccan in a good position but not very precise in the header.
The guests shake up with a volley from Anderson rejected by Ampadu (14′) and above all a long ball for Immobile (21′), suspected offside, which Dragowski arrives first on the way out. At 35′ the episode that unlocks the game. Immobile spits out a relaunch from the defense and throws Anderson towards the goal, Ampadu comes to and tackles: ball and leg, for Irrati first the second and penalty amid protests from the hosts. Immobile displaces Dragowski and is 0-1. Sarri’s center forward wasted his double twice by missing the flying intervention on two services by Anderson from the right, while the half ended with the flares flying from the away sector towards the field and the nearby home sector.
The match had already been stopped in the 7th minute for the same reason. Spezia returns to the field to straighten it, but in the eighth minute Anderson doubles his lead at the end of a counterattack played by Luis Alberto on the trocar and finished off by Immobile on the edge of the area. Spezia, however, continues to try and builds the ball to reopen it by finding a great Provedel on Ekdal’s low shot destined for the right corner (59′). Semplici launches three offensive substitutions per hour of play – Maldini, Agudelo and Reca – while Sarri recalls Immobile shortly after to give space to Pedro. Decidedly lower rhythms, in the midst of which there is a flash of Anderson (77 ‘) which enhances Dragowski’s reflection in the corner.
In the 83rd minute Spezia in ten, Ampadu stops the ball and stretches for the field change that finds Maldini, but at the same time Zaccagni arrives and the two collide. For Irrati, the Welshman deserves a second yellow card, also in this case amidst the protests of La Spezia. Shortly after (89′) Marcos Antonio, as soon as he entered, could fly all alone towards Dragowski and score the third goal of the biancocelesti thanks to the hole left in defense by the expulsion.
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Clashes between Lazio and Spezia fans in the historic center of the Ligurian city, a few hours before the match. (HANDLE)
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