Lazio-Turin 0-1, Ilic’s goal decides at the Olimpico

A perfect Taurus signs a capital feat. Stops Lazio’s race second in the class in Serie A, who hadn’t lost in the league for eight days (7 wins and a draw). Sarri’s last home defeat dates back to February 11 against Atalanta. The grenades treat themselves to a five-star Saturday. A goal from Ilic decides at the end of the first half, but the interpretation of all the grenades that rose so much in the second half was exceptional. In the end, the score is also a bit of a lie, because Juric’s team could have scored much more, having had two sensational chances with Radonjic, one with Sanabria and another with Schuurs.

the thrill

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This Lazio-Toro was about to enter championship history. Because after just twenty-seven seconds, the ball fell on Zaccagni’s head and could begin to dig a difference: Felipe Anderson ran down the right, the cross was precise in the center of the grenade area where Zaccagni headed in. Vanja Milinkovic Savic has a shot at the last second, by a whisker he manages to avoid the lightning goal of Sarri’s team. After the opening thrill, the match at the Stadio Olimpico rebalances itself: Lazio are a little more fluid in the game and in the horizontal ball lap, but quite inconclusive in the last quarter. The absence at the start of Immobile, sitting on the bench after the accident driving his car six days ago, pays off. Toro plays a very attentive first half: he’s tough, he works a lot along the Vlasic-Linetty-Ilic hinge to intercept Sarri’s main sources of play (Vecino, Sergej Milinkovic Savic, Luis Alberto) but he also has the energy and strength to make himself dangerous in vertical attacks.

ivan’s shot

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And in fact, the first half chances bulletin hangs on the side of Juric’s team. After the thrill of Zaccagni, Lazio are no longer able to break through the grenade wall. He asks for a penalty, in the 12th minute, for an alleged throw by Singo at Hysaj (who isn’t there), and Ghersini doesn’t sanction it. Before taking the lead, Juric’s Bull produces a big chance with the Sanabria-Radonjic duo: the Paraguayan’s side, dribbling on Patric and a shot by the Serbian (20′). Provedel saves himself for a corner with a prodigious foot intervention. To break the balance, two minutes from the interval, a missile kicked by Ivan Ilic takes care of it. This time Provedel is betrayed by a poisonous rebound under his eyes, and Toro takes the lead at half-time: it is Ilic’s first goal for Toro, his first also in this championship.

racism from the north

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At the start of the second half, Sarri unbalances Lazio by inserting Immobile and Marcos Antonio in place of Pedro and Vecino. And while the biancocelesti lengthen, the opportunity to close the accounts is still produced by Toro: it is the 12′ when Vlasic fishes Radonjic in the area, a first intention blow by the Serbian on which Provedel’s reflex is again amazing as in the first half always on Radonjic. Despite the entry of Immobile, the script of the game does not change. Toro played a perfect second half, never allowing a Lazio that had meanwhile become ugly either to kick on goal or to make themselves dangerous, except for a long-range shot by Luis Alberto in added time. He intelligently defends the advantage, he almost scores in the final with Sanabria and Schuurs. The stain of the afternoon are the racist howls from the Curva Nord of the Lazio fans, and clearly perceived, first when Singo took the ball, then in the final on Karamoh.