2023-11-07 23:10:00
A goal from Ciro Immobile in added time of the first half gave Lazio a 1-0 victory over a more dominant Feyenoord to further adjust Group E of the Champions League, which Atlético de Madrid now leads, after their rout. over Celtic, with one point more than the Roman team and two points ahead of the Dutch.
Feyenoord arrived at the Olympic Stadium in Rome as leader of Group E with two wins and one loss, and they did so against a Lazio team that had only one win, one draw and one loss.
Lazio tried to take the initiative in the game in a first half of sharing control in which Feyenoord tried to go on the counter in search of Santiago Giménez, who almost scored in some of the attacking actions, always with judgment , of his team, who in certain phases took the lead. The Portuguese Ivan Provedel, Lazio’s goalkeeper, denied the Mexican a goal.
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In the phases in which the Roman team imposed its game, Mattia Zacagni carried the weight of the danger of Maurizio Sarri’s team on the left wing and was a continuous danger for the Dutch defense, which soon forced Arne Slot to vary his design by the injury to one of their centre-backs, Bart Nieuwkoop, replaced after 20 minutes by Gernot Trauner.
When Feyenoord began to control the situation and the game was approaching half-time Ciro Immobile broke through Feyenoord’s last defensive line to later go around goalkeeper Justin Bijlow and beat him with a cross shot from the right to put Lazio ahead. It was added time of the first half (m.46+) and the striker’s 200th goal with the Roman team’s shirt.
At the start of the second, Feyenoord took control in search of rebalancing the duel. But Lazio applied itself in defense and dedicated itself by continually interrupting the game to try to prevent the visitor’s reaction.
Arne Slot’s men searched until the end for the equalizing goal, but always crashed into the firm defensive line of a Lazio that even flirted with 2-0 on the counterattack in the final stretch and with time already expired.
On matchday five, Lazio will play against Celtic, while Atlético de Madrid will try to maintain the lead against Feyenoord in Rotterdam.
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