This season marks 10 years since an Italian club won the Champions League. Martin Mork takes a closer look at the struggles of Serie A sides in Europe...
Juventus have been Italian football’s lone rider among the elite clutch of clubs over the last few years, reaching two Finals in five seasons. Yet they are the only team from the peninsula to play in a European Final this decade. Indeed, this term marks 10 years since Inter won the Champions League so are Serie A sides in need of new tactical ideas or a new mentality?
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic insists Lazio “have the quality” to qualify for the Champions League as he targets a top-four finish with the Biancocelesti.
Lazio are currently third in Serie A after a run of seven matches unbeaten in the League, and Milinkovic-Savic believes this could be the year they finally return to Europe’s elite club competition.
“We have started to play well, with four straight wins in the League,” the midfielder said from Serbia’s training camp.
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Simone Inzaghi does not agree that Lazio would be better off out of the Europa League, but is targeting a top four finish ahead of today’s Lecce game.
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Inzaghi was teammates with Lecce boss Fabio Liverani at Lazio, so they will have a reunion on the touchline.
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Celtic boss Neil Lennon claims his side’s historic 2-1 win at Lazio last night was “almost on a par” with beating Barcelona during his reign.
Celtic booked their place in the Europa League last 32 with a dramatic victory at the Olimpico as ex-Genoa man Olivier Ntcham scored deep in stoppage time, in turn all-but-eliminating Lazio from the competition.
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Another Celtic fan has been stabbed in Rome, with 12 Lazio ultras also arrested in the aftermath of last night’s Europa League clash.
Local reports state the Celtic fan, who was only 20 years old, was taken to hospital in the early hours of Friday morning.
As for the arrest of Lazio ultras, it came as the 9,000-strong Scottish support was leaving the Olimpico, celebrating their side’s 2-1 win to reach the Europa League last 32.
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Roma and Lazio’s Europa League defeats show that both clubs suffer from the same basic problem, writes Vilizar Yakimov.
Another week, another Europa League fiasco for the Serie A sides. The two almost identical defeats that Roma and Lazio suffered put the qualification of the two Capital clubs at serious risk with two games left.
It wouldn’t be harsh to say that Simone Inzaghi’s men need a miracle at this point, as they are now six points off second-placed Cluj, while Celtic’s triumph at the Olimpico puts Neil Lennon’s men out of reach. Odds in the USA - and everywhere else - are strongly against Lazio now.
Roma coach Paulo Fonseca feels they were “in control” of both games against Borussia Monchengladbach, “but football isn’t always fair.”
The Giallorossi thought they had earned at least a valuable point away to the Bundesliga leaders when Federico Fazio bizarrely cancelled out his own goal, but deep into stoppages Marcus Thuram’s header proved decisive.
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Javier Pastore is “hugely disappointed” at defeat to Borussia Monchengladbach, as Roma wasted numerous chances and conceded at the death.
“It’s hugely disappointing, as we played very well in the second half, created so many chances and would’ve been alright with a point considering the standings,” Pastore told Sky Sport Italia after the 2-1 Europa League defeat.
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Federico Fazio scored both an own goal and the equaliser, but Marcus Thuram’s stoppage-time header gave Borussia Monchengladbach a 2-1 win over Roma.
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The Giallorossi were still smarting after the hugely controversial 1-1 draw at the Olimpico, where the Germans were awarded a penalty in stoppages for non-existent Chris Smalling handball.
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Simone Inzaghi feels Lazio should’ve had a penalty against Celtic, but concedes their own mistakes proved decisive. “This group was well within our reach.”
In all except the win over Rennes, the Aquile took the lead only to lose 2-1, paying for wasted opportunities in attack and howlers in defence.
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