Awesome football evening at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome as the Derbi Della Capitalle was played there with the best things of the beautiful game: goals, emotion and the warm of the fans enjoying the spectacle form the stands.
Both teams displayed a high-level performance on the pitch also, with Lazio being the fair winner of the contest. The Biancocelesti broke the deadlock soon with two goals by Milinkovic-Savic and Pedro, who made his first goal in Biancocelesti jersey. Ibañez scored for Roma just before the break, but in the second half Felipe Anderson made it 3-1 for the local side. Veretout scored from the kick-spot the second AS Roma goal.
Pedro was back to Maurizio Sarri's starting line-up and played the full 90 minutes, scoring his first goal for Lazio 18 minutes from kick-off. Thanks to a perfect cross by Immobile, the Spaniard connected a clinical shot to beat Ruiz Patricio grabbing the 2-0. But his contribution to the win was much more than a goal: he worked hard on both attacking and defensive roles completing an awesome performance against his former team and pulled up to 6 goals his Serie A record.
- Match stats:
SS Lazio: Reina; Marusic, L. Felipe, Acerbi, Hysaj; Milinkovic, Leiva (61' Cataldi), L. Alberto (66' Akpa Akpro); F. Anderson, Immobile (89' Muriqi), Pedro
AS Roma: Rui Patricio; Karsdorp (82' Zalewski), Mancini, Ibanez, Vina (82' Smalling); Veretout, Cristante; Zaniolo (77' Perez), Mkhitaryan, El Shaarawy (64' Shomurodov); Abraham.
Bookings: Marco Guida (sez. Torre Annunziata) amonestó a Rui Patricio (10'), Leiva (25'), Cristante (45'+1'), Vina (48'), Cataldi (87'), Veretout (87').
Goals: Milinkovic-Savic, 1-0 (10’); Pedro, 2-0 (19’), Ibañez, 2-1 (41'), Felipe-Anderson, 3-1 (63') Veretout, 3-2 (69’).
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