The Lazio Chronicle
Match30 Dec 2028
Lazio run riot against Lecce
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
Nobody could get near Fisayo Dele-Bashiru
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Mario Gila is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Lazio will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Mario Gila
16 goals and a season average of 7.51 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Lazio
Adam Marušić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
One of those days for Mario Gila
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
One of those days for Matteo Cancellieri
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
Petar Ratkov in the eights
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Lazio count the cost of losing Leonardo Scuto
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Loan watch Fabio Polinari has seen enough of Pescara
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Ivan Provedel
- Market Petar Ratkov linked with a move away