Lazio beats Empoli 2-0: Patric and Vecino score
The Olimpico blesses the last minutes, both of the first and second half. Patric in full recovery, Matias Vecino to the ninetieth: they are the scorers of the Laziowho beat 2-0Empoli and keeps the dream called the Champions League alive, but in the meantime arithmetically secures qualification at least for the Conference. Without Luis Alberto, out due to technical choice and for a love that is clearly over, Igor Tudor he achieved his fifth championship victory since he coached the Biancocelesti and is now rooting for a draw in Atalanta-Roma, which would allow his team to really believe in it. On the day in which the Olympic stadium celebrates the 50th anniversary of the feat of the Maestrelli band in 1974, Lazio has neither its flashes nor its ferocious and brilliant madness. However, he gives a solid performance and two bursts that overcome the defensive castle built by Davide Nicola. The standings of the Tuscans remain complicated and unsafe. They haven’t scored away from home since February 24th. In the next games they will challenge Udinese in Udine and Roma in Castellani, and they see their stay a little further away.
The TMW live show of Lazio-Empoli
Empoli better, but Patric decides the first half. The Tuscans’ set-up, waiting for Lazio and its mistakes, produced a very blocked first half, during which the best opportunities came precisely from the guests. Caputo scores, but offside, then Kamada gives Bastoni a great chance but the left-footed player from outside is inaccurate. Another inaccuracy, this time from Guendouzi, allows Cancellieri to break through into the area: chocolate for Caputo, the difference is made by the great reactivity of Mandas who sends it to the corner. It is precisely on a corner kick, the last action of the first half of the match, that Patric breaks the deadlock: a tense cross from Zaccagni, a strike from the defender behind Caputo and a cold shower for Nicola. Tudor returns to the locker room with a 1-0 lead.
Vecino closes it. The second half was a long and exhausting back and forth in midfield, a photocopy of the first half until Patric’s goal, but with a few less high notes. The inaccuracies in front of goal pardon those in the defensive phase, the whirlwind of substitutions leads Tudor to deprive themselves of Immobile, Felipe and Zaccagni, while Nicola launches a hyper-offensive deployment to attempt the assault with the cold weapon in the final. Five from the ninetieth, Mandas is still in charge: the Greek flies to deny Shpendi’s goal following the development of a corner kick. Just when Empoli seems to be dangerous, here is the former’s goal: Vecino scores the sixth goal of his championship and puts the added time on ice.
