This Week In Lazio History: December 30 – January 5 | OneFootball

This week in Lazio history we have some important wins, especially Re Cecconi’s last minute winner against Milan and the thrashing of Maradona’s Napoli

Matches of the Week

Date: Sunday December 30, 1973 Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome Fixture: Lazio Milan 1-0 Lazio score in the dying seconds with a magnificent Re Cecconi goal

Date: Sunday, December 30, 1979 Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome Fixture: Lazio Torino 2-1 Despite falling behind after just 22 seconds, Lazio manage to overturn the result thanks to D’Amico and Citterio

Date: Sunday, January 2, 1983 Venue: Stadio Comunale, Bergamo Fixture: Atalanta Lazio 1-1 Lazio come back with a point from a traditionally difficult ground thanks to Podavini and maintain their lead in Serie B.

Date: Sunday, January 3, 1982 Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome Fixture: Lazio Hellas Verona 2-0 After a dire first half the replacement striker Vagheggi wins a freekick for the first goal, hits a crossbar and scores Lazio’s second.

Date: Sunday, January 5, 1997 Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome Fixture: Lazio Milan 3-0 A rare thrashing of Sacchi’s Milan gives Lazio a perfect start to 1997. Goals from Signori, Casiraghi and Grandoni

Match In Focus

Date: Saturday, December 30, 1989 Venue: Stadio Flaminio, Rome Fixture: Lazio Napoli 3-0

Napoli were yet to lose this season but had lost every post Christmas match in the last three years, so where on one side there was obvious worry over having to face Diego Armando Maradona, on the other there was optimism from a superstitious point of view.

A big problem for Lazio was that Rubén Sosa was unavailable. But at the end of the day it was the only problem they had to face.

Lazio were far too good for a Napoli team that was obviously still on holiday. The Biancocelesti had already had a couple of chances wide by a whisker with Gabriele Pin and Alessandro Bertoni, when Cristiano Bergodi’s shot put Raffaele Di Fusco in trouble and Amarildo was ready for the tap in. It was the 36th minute and Lazio were 1-0 up. It could have been two before the break but Paolo Di Canio’s lob hit the crossbar.

And Napoli? A couple of free kicks and not much else.

Everybody was expecting Maradona’s team to wake up in the second half, but Lazio were in complete control and missed the chance to double the lead with Pedro Troglio. But it was just a matter of time. In the 77th minute Di Canio went on the counter attack. Ball to Pin who beat the Napoli goalkeeper for the 2-0.

Four minutes later Lazio made it three. Amarildo, unmarked, dribbled the goalkeeper and put the ball in the net. Troglio hit the woodwork in the final minutes.

Lazio showed that they could do a lot better than demonstrated so far.

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