ROME: Lazio ensured they’d keep in Serie A’s best 4 on Sunday after beating Spezia 4-0 in Rome, whilst Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi made historical past in Sassuolo’s 5-0 thumping of Salernitana as the primary girl referee in Italy’s best flight. Early targets from Mattia Zaccagni and boyhood Lazio fan Alessio Romagnoli and a brace in the second one half of from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic on the Stadio Olimpico put Lazio 3 issues at the back of league leaders Napoli in 3rd. Maurizio Sarri’s workforce are stage on 17 issues with AC Milan and second-placed Atalanta after making quick paintings of Spezia, who’re 3 issues above the relegation zone, and claiming their 3rd immediately league win.
On the other hand Lazio will drop go into reverse to fourth will have to Atalanta now not lose to Fiorentina in a while Sunday and Udinese win at Verona on Monday. “It will had been an unpleasant function so far as I’m involved, all that issues is that it went in,” mentioned Romagnoli after scoring his first Lazio function since his summer time transfer from Milan with a well-taken volley. “It was once truly nice lately for the reason that workforce performed truly properly… I’ve most effective simply were given right here however the workforce has been operating in combination for 14 months (on Sarri’s taste of play) and I believe you’ll see the effects.”
Lazio’s dominance over their fighters was once obtrusive from kick-off, and they might had been forward in the second one minute had Ciro Motionless now not blasted over a penalty he gained simply 39 seconds into the fit – the earliest ever in a Serie A fit. The hosts had been quickly within the lead then again because of Zaccagni, who began and completed the transfer which ended with him tapping house within the twelfth minute after exchanging passes with Felipe Anderson. And 12 mins later Romagnoli was once kissing the Lazio badge below the Curva Nord finish of the stadium the place he went to observe the Roman workforce as a boy.
Caputi makes historical past
Milinkovic-Savic hit the bar with a header 8 mins earlier than half-time however the Serbia midfielder rolled house from Danilo Cataldi’s go to make it 3 simply after the hour mark. The 27-year-old then dinked in his fiftieth Serie A function in stoppage time which gave the fit a scoreline that mirrored the steadiness of play.
Ferrieri Caputi had one second of controversy in her Serie A officiating debut, giving Sassuolo the penalty from which Andrea Pinamonti put the hosts two targets forward six mins earlier than half-time. Armand Lauriente had already put Sassuolo within the lead within the twelfth minute along with his first Serie A function when she whistled for what Salernitana idea was once a comfortable foul on Emil Ceide through Giulio Maggiore. Kristian Thorstvedt, who had laid on Lauriente’s opener, then swept house the 3rd within the 53rd minute after speedy counter led through Agustin Alvarez Martinez.
Abdou Harroui made it 4 with 14 mins closing earlier than Janis Antiste rolled in a low end to finish the rout in stoppage time. Alessio Dionisi’s facet are actually 7th, stage on 12 issues with Inter Milan who had been crushed through Roma on the San Siro on Saturday and drop down a spot to 8th. Monza moved out of the relegation zone because of a 3-0 win on the league’s backside facet Sampdoria, their moment immediately victory after beating Juventus earlier than the world damage.
Matteo Pessina and Gianluca Caprari each scored their first targets for the membership owned through Silvio Berlusconi, who now take a seat sixteenth, earlier than Stefano Sensi scored in opposition to his former membership, whose workforce had been loudly booed through lovers after the general whistle. Samp have misplaced their final 4 and are 4 issues at the back of Seventeenth-placed Bologna, who tackle Juve in Turin on Sunday evening. Lecce drew 1-1 with Cremonese with consequences from Daniel Ciofani and Gabriel Strefezza leaving every facet with some extent. – AFP