Lazio – Football Flame

15Apr

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Ciro Immobile, Lazio, SERIE A

Lazio consolidate second spot with win over Spezia

Ciro Immobile of SS Lazio celebrates a opening goal a penalty with his team mates during the Serie A match between Spezia Calcio and SS Lazio at Stadio Alberto Picco on April 14, 2023 in La Spezia, Italy.Lazio’s Ciro Immobile, Felipe Anderson and Marcos Antonio were all on target in a 3-0 win over struggling Spezia in Serie A, extending the club’s unbeaten run to eight league games. Second-placed Lazio are 13 points adrift of runaway leaders Napoli and increased their lead over AS Roma in third to eight points. Lazio opened the scoring in the 36th minute with a coolly taken spot-kick by Immobile, who sent Bartlomiej Dragowski the wrong way after a foul on Anderson in the box by Ethan Ampadu. Maurizio Sarri’s men doubled their advantage seven minutes into the second half through a low...

10Apr

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Lazio, SERIE A

Lazio beat Juve to consolidate second place

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic of SS Lazio celebrates with his teammates after scoring opening goal during the Serie A match between SS Lazio and Juventus at Stadio Olimpico on April 8, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Lazio strengthened their grip on second place in Serie A with Saturday’s impressive 2-1 win over Juventus, while Paulo Dybala moved Roma just behind their capital city rivals with the only goal at Torino. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Mattia Zaccagni struck the goals which sank Juve and gave Maurizio Sarri’s team a great chance of reaching the Champions League next season. Lazio are five points ahead of Roma in third and most importantly seven in front of Inter Milan, who have been knocked out of the top four after drawing 1-1 at Salernitana, the only point they have collected from th...

4Mar

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Lazio, Matias Vecino, Napoli, SERIE A

Serie A leaders Napoli beaten at home by Lazio

Matias Vecino of SS Lazio celebrates a opening goal during the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and SS Lazio at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on March 03, 2023 in Naples, Italy. Serie A leaders Napoli suffered only their second league defeat of the season as they lost at home to Lazio, who moved up to second in the table. Matias Vecino scored the only goal in the 67th minute with an excellent strike from outside the penalty area. Serie A top goalscorer Victor Osimhen, with 19 goals in the league, came closest to an equaliser but saw his header bounce off the crossbar. Lazio’s Sergej Milinkovic-Savic also hit the woodwork with a free-kick. Vecino’s goal was the first goal Napoli had conceded in six games. Napoli are aiming to become Italian champions for the third time with thei...

19Feb

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Ciro Immobile, Lazio, SERIE A

Immobile double shoots Lazio into top four at Salernitana

Ciro Immobile of SS Lazio after scoring a goal to make it 0-1 during the Serie A match between Salernitana and SS Lazio at Stadio Arechi on February 19, 2023 in Salerno, Italy.Ciro Immobile struck twice as Lazio took advantage of an Atalanta slip-up with Sunday’s 2-0 win at Salernitana which moved his team provisionally into Serie A’s Champions League places. Italy forward Immobile tapped in Lazio’s opener from Adam Marusic’s cross on the hour mark in Salerno and nine minutes later slotted home a perfect penalty after being fouled by the hosts’ goalkeeper Luigi Sepe. Lazio moved up to fourth on 42 points thanks to Immobile’s brace, which came after his winner against Cluj in the Europa League on Thursday. Immobile has struggled with injuries but is on eight league strikes for the season, t...

7Nov

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Jose Mourinho, Lazio, Roma, SERIE A

Lazio, Juventus surge up Serie A ladder

Maurizio Sarri of SS Lazio hugs Jose Mourinho of AS Roma during the Serie A match between AS Roma and SS Lazio at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy on 6 November 2022.Jose Mourinho and Maurizio Sarri are going in opposite directions in their second Serie A seasons in the Italian capital.Roma are struggling to meet the higher expectations produced in Mourinho’s first term when the Giallorossi won the inaugural edition of the Europa Conference League.Lazio, meanwhile, are on the upswing as Sarri’s squad fine-tunes his intricate passing schemes.The difference was clear in the Rome derby on Sunday when Sarri’s Lazio edged Mourinho’s Roma 1-0 with an early goal from Felipe Anderson to leapfrog their city rivals and move up to third place.“This is one of the most intense derbies in the world. In Lond...