At the Olimpico the goals from Immobile and Pedro are not enough, Boving’s brace gives the Austrians equal. Lazzari expelled
In Europa League, Lazio-Sturm Graz 2-2. Result that brings the biancocelesti of Sarri to 5 points after four days in a group F that sees all the teams with the same score. Difficult game at the Olimpico, nervous and that Lazio manages to unlock by playing the first half in crescendo only at 45 ‘on a penalty with Immobile after Pedro’s cross in the 35th minute. In recovery though Lazzari is expelled and the game changes in the second half. Boving draws in the 56th minute for Sturm Graz, then the Austrians try the coup with numerous attempts from distance before undergoing the doubling of Pedro with duck by Siebenhandl. 83 ‘but still Boving signs the final 2-2.
THE MATCH
Nobody wants to win Group F’s Europa Leaguebut nobody wants to give up. Lazio e Storm Graz, just like Feyenoord and Midtjylland in the afternoon, they do not go beyond 2-2 and after four rounds they are all within five points. The challenge of the Olimpico, difficult regardless of the episodes, was conditioned by theexpulsion of Lazzari in the recovery of the first half with the Lazio just took the lead. Outnumbered throughout the second half, the team of Sarri she failed twice to keep her head ahead, always letting herself be reached by the evening star of the Danish talent Bovingto take over.
After all, the difficulties of the Lazio to maintain rhythms and concentration on the close double challenge of championship and cup are known, made public several times and in different ways by Sarri himself. Against Sturm Graz, however, the biancocelesti played a first half in crescendo, touching the advantage with the sensational cross of Pedro at 35 ‘and finding it on a penalty with Immobile right at 45 ‘. Before the rest, however, the expulsion of Lazzari has upset all the plans of the game forcing Lazio to work harder than expected.
The Austrians in the second half caught the talent in 2003 Boving from the bench, Hojlund’s substitute went to Atalanta, and the former Copenhagen did the good and the bad weather, immediately finding the equalizer in the 56th minute using a restart after the lost ball by Cataldi in midfield. A quarter of an hour followed in which the Sturm Graz has committed several times Provedel from distance, but at the end of which Lazio, taking advantage of the play in speed and in the strait between Felipe Anderson and Pedro, found the new advantage with the Spaniard with the complicity of the opposing goalkeeper.
Done? Not even for a dream, let alone in this group F. Seven minutes from the end still Bovingimpregnable, starting from the right he returned to the left-handed beating Provedel on the near post for the 2-2 final.
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THE TABLE
LAZIO-STURM GRAZ 2-2
Lazio (4-3-3): Provedel 6; Lazzari 5, Patric 6, Gila 5.5, Hysaj 6; Basic 5.5 (13 ‘st Milinkovic-Savic 6), Cataldi 5 (13’ st Vecino 5.5), Luis Alberto 6 (13 ‘st Felipe Anderson 6.5); Pedro 7, Building 6.5 (34 ‘st Cancellieri sv), Zaccagni 6 (1’ st Marusic 6). Available: Maximiano, Magro, Antonio, Romagnoli, Casale, Romero, Radu. Coach: Sarri 6.
Storm Graz (4-3-1-2): Maintenance 5.5; Ingolitsch 5.5, Affengruber 5, Wuthrich 6, Dante 6; Hierlander 5.5 (34′ st Sarkaria sv), Stankovic 6 (34′ st Ljubic sv), Prass 5.5; Kiteishvili 5.5 (13′ st Horvat 6.5); Throw 6 (34′ st Jantscher sv), Give 5 (1′ st Boving 7.5). The disp.: Schutzenauer, Giuliani, Borkovic, Fuseini, Oroz, Schnegg, Welsh. All.: Ilzer 6.5.
Referee: Stegeman
Markers: 45′ rig. Immobile (L), 11′ st Boving (S), 26′ st Pedro (L), 38′ st Boving (S)
Ammonites: Immobile (L); Ingolitsch, Kiteishvili, Affengruber, Stankovic, Prass, Ljubic (S)
Expelled: 47 ‘Lazzari (L) for the sum of yellow cards
