Lazio hopes for it, Patric: “Now we can’t stop if we want to stay up there”

Second consecutive victory for Igor Tudor’s Laziowho after beating Salernitana at the Olimpico also achieved a good success at Marassi against Genoa in the advance of the 33rd matchday of Serie A. Luis Alberto’s goal in the second half decides. While waiting for the other matches of this day, the Biancocelesti reach 52 points and continue to hope for fifth place which is worth direct qualification for the next Champions League.

These are the words of the Lazio defender, Patricto Lazio Style Channel after the Marassi race: “We are and I am happy for this special week. Happy with everything? Not yet, I’ll tell you at the end of the season. Important victory, but we still have to move forward, we are there and we can say a lot. Now we can’t stop if we want to stay up there, a heavy and difficult success. We are already thinking about the next one, do we want to have our say? Now we will have to rest well, after which we will have to focus on believing, together with our people, until the end I know, but this must be the key to the match and this is how we must approach the match.”

“First and second half? We lost our composure a bit, they made a very aggressive challenge. We didn’t find the spaces we wanted. The pitch wasn’t good and we weren’t able to make our plays. In the second half they Once the pace was lowered, it was still important not to concede a goal even in the first half of the game. We came out there, they were late. In the end, the most important thing is to win three points.”

Here is the match scoreboard:

Genoa (3-4-1-2): Martinez; Vogliacco (34′ st Sabelli), De Winter, Vasquez; Spence, Frendrup (43′ st Thorsby), Strootman (22′ st Badelj), Martin; Gudmundsson; Ekuban (22′ st Ankeye), Retegui. Available: Leali, Sommariva, Cittadini, Pittino, Haps, Bohinen, Papadopoulos. All.: Gilardino.

Lazio (3-4-2-1): Mandas; Patric, Casale (1st st Romagnoli), Gila; Lazzari (36′ pt Hysaj), Vecino, Kamada, Marusic; Luis Alberto (41′ st Rovella), Felipe Anderson (22′ st Cataldi); Castellanos (22′ st Pedro). Available: Renzetti, Sepe, Pellegrini, Isaksen. All.: Tudor.

Referee: Feliciani
Scorers: 22′ st Luis Alberto (L)
Booked: Casale, Cataldi (L), Vogliacco (G)