Archive for August, 2008
The match just ended and we beat Cagliari away 1-4 after a scary first half.
Goals were scored by: Zarate (pen) 62 and 71 min; Pasquale Foggia 75min and Goran Pandev 84min.
The match reports from new agencies as well as links to goals and photos to follow today or tomorrow.
Bravo ragazzi!
P.S. Surprising results: AC Milan – Bologna 1-2 and as roma – Napoli 1-1.
Lazio: Carrizo; Lichtsteiner, Siviglia, Rozehnal, Kolarov; Brocchi (Foggia 46), Ledesma, Matuzalem, Mauri; Pandev (Manfredini 88), Zarate (Makinwa 91)
Ok, as promised you can read the match reports from Goal.com here and Channel4 here:
Furthermore, you can view the goals of the match on the below links:
Zarate 1-1; Zarate 2-1 and Foggia 3-1; Pandev 4-1
And here the new Seria A season begins. After waiting so long the day when the team will begin the quest for as many points as possible in order to have the best ending to the season possiblem the wait has finally come to an end.
Lazio faces away Cagliari at the day 1 of the new Serie A season. The match will be played on Sunday at 15;00 CET. New arrivals Carrizo, Lichtsteiner, Zarate and Brocchi are though to be starting the match, more given to injuries of the likes of De Silvestri, Rocchi, Dab and Meghni.
The starting 11 are still unknown because Mr. Rossi has some doubt with regards to starting Kolarov or Radu as left backs and Zarate or dissapointing Makinwa as forwards. Also, it is yet not known which formation shall be used, even though a return to 4-4-2 is quite probable.
It is always imperative to start with a win on the first day of a new season, especially this one as after Cagliari we face Sampdoria and then Milan @ San Siro.
So, there is nothing else to say except for AVANTI RAGAZZI and start with a win.
Late last night AC Milan announced through their web-site the Cristina Brocchi has joined SS Lazio. It being reported that the player, 32 years of age signed a 3 year contract with Lazio estimated to earn just over 1 mil Euros per season, thus joining top earning at Lazio, Rocchi, Zarate and Matuzalem. Brocchi is in a terrific physical shape after going through the entire pre-season camp with AC. However, after the latter club purchased Ronaldinho, Flamini and Cardacio, it became obvious that there was little room left for Brocchi to play with the team.
Brocchi will today (Friday) arrive to the Italian capital for the official presentation and it is more than possible that he may start against Cagliari.
Corriere dello Sport bring pictures of his arrival late last night at Rome here.
Brocchi`s arrival was quite vital given the fact that Behrami and Mudingayi left while Mutarelli is frozen from the first team.
As usual, the days just before the transfers deadline closes are as frenetic as they can get. Teams do their utmost to strengthen their teams. Lazio has done relatively well this summer by selling some players that were bought cheap and bringing some decent players in (Carrizo, Matuzalem, Lichtsteiner, Zarate). However, the departures of Behrami (West Ham), Mudingayi (Bologna) as well as Mutarrelli`s case and constant injuries to Firmani push the team to get another central midfielder that would compete with Ausmane Dabo for that final spot in the 3 men-midfield (Ledesma and Matuzalem are starters).
Also, Rocchi`s injury and constant failure of Makinwa to convcince the team and fans might push the team to bring in another central striker.
Following are the names most linked with us last weeks: in defense, Dommizzi, Dainelli and especially Cosmin Moti from Dinamo Bucurest. In midfield, Augusto Fernanded of River Plate, Guana of Palermo and Brocchi of AC Milan. In attack Crespo and Bogdani of Chievo.
The other important matter in this regard is that Lotito is trying to offload some players who are on the wage-bill and who are ruled out by Delio Rossi to play. Today there is a report that Alberto Quadri has been sold to Monza while it is believed that Roberto Baronio is just days away from living as well (Modena, Ascoli and Breschi as possible destinations).
So much from the transfer market. The bad news is that, it is just certain that De Silvestri and Meghni will miss the first Serie A match against Cagliari. They both picked up injuries in the Coppa match against Benevento. Good luck to them and speedy recovery.
Morning all. You may know by now that we beat Bevento 5 to 1 last night @ Olimpico and thus moved to the fourth round of Coppa Italia, where we face Atalanta next. I could not watch the match, like most of you of course. This is a short report from Channel4. Bad news is that both De Silvestri and Meghni picked us injuries and their extent will be known in the next 2 days. Hope nothing serious. Rossi used the following team:
Lazio (4-3-2-1): Carrizo, De Silvestri, Siviglia (1? St Cribari), Rozehnal, Lichsteiner, Meghni (1? St Manfredini), Ledesma, Matuzalem, Pandev, Mauri (28? St Foggia), Makinwa. (86 Muslera, 49 Cinelli, 10 Zarate, 90 Mendicino)
Delio Rossi’s men thrashed Serie C side Benevento at the Stadio Olimpico, although they got a helping hand to begin with as Cattaneo put through his own net after nine minutes.
Mourad Meghni doubled the advantage and Bueno pulled one back, but in the second half Lazio ran away with it thanks to a Christian Manfredini counter-attack and Goran Pandev brace.
You can watch some pics from the match here. I expected Foggia to play more and Makinwa to score. The latter continues to disappoint and I think a new forward must be brought before the season begins.
Yesterday the team featured in a friendly against a team called Fidene at Formello. Lazio won 4-1. The visitors were first to score. Lazio responded immediatly with an auto-goal scored by a Fidene players. Then Makinwa scored twice to take the team 3-1 after the first half. In the second half, Rossi changed almost the entire team and at the end, it was Manfredini and Zarate who scored for the final result 5-1. Dabo, Firmani, Belleri and Rocchi did not play due to injuries.
Lazio (first half): Muslera, De Silvestri, Siviglia, Cribari, Kolarov, Meghni, Ledesma, Matuzalem, Foggia, Makinwa, Mauri.
Lazio (second half): Degre, Faraoni, Diakite, Tuia, Kolarov (Iozzini), Cinelli, Spuntarelli, Manfredini, Mendicino, Kozac, Zarate
In the other news, Pandev scored twice for Macedonia while Lichtsteiner, Rozenhal and Carrizo all had terrific performances playing for the respective national teams in friendlies.
There is also a bad news. Ledesma`s agent D`Ippolito declared that his client will remain with Lazio this season while there are 99,9 % of changes that next season he will leave, invoking article 17.
Besides Bogdani and Crespo, there is a new named that surfaced today that could interest Lazio after Rocchi`s injury. It is Bruno from Modena. He scored 18 goals last season for the said team.
On Saturday at 20;45, we open the season officially as the team plays Benevento in the 3rd round of Coppa Italia. The match shall be played @ Olimpico.