With a goal in each half, Lazio beat Cagliari 2-1 at the Olimpico and reached Fiorentina in third place with 22 points: three less than league leaders Napoli and one more than Juventus, now fifth. The Sardinians complain who, until a few minutes from the end, were in the game. But in the final, a penalty and two expulsions between the rossoblu definitively closed the match.
Dia opened the scoring in the 2nd minute: the Senegalese did well to return Schuffet’s rebound into the net. The Biancocelesti maintain possession of the ball for the entire first part of the match.
In the 41st minute, however, Luvumbu made a breakthrough to make it 1-1.
In the second half the match was blocked with the Lazio team looking for victory and Nicola’s men ready to hit a throw-in with the speed of their attackers. At the 30th minute of the second half the episode that decides the match. Penalty awarded for a foul by Zortea. Newly substitute Zaccagni goes to the spot and scores. The Sardinians get nervous. In the 39th minute Mina and Adopo were sent off for protests. Cagliari with nine men find themselves looking for an equalizer and risk being hit on the counterattack.
Lazio in the standings with 22 points: Cagliari stuck on 9.
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