Series A
‘Lazio take one step forward, two steps back’
Luis Alberto admits full properly that Lazio ‘didn’t deserve’ to be main towards Fiorentina earlier than their defeat and is annoyed they ‘maintain taking one step ahead and two steps again.’
The Spanish midfielder had put the Aquile in entrance on the Stadio Artemio Franchi towards the run of play, after they’d been rescued 3 times by the woodwork, for his first Serie A purpose since October.
Nevertheless, even with Nico Gonzalez lacking a penalty, Fiorentina nonetheless managed to show it round for a 2-1 victory with Michael Kayode and Giacomo Bonaventura.
“We didn’t do sufficient,” Luis Alberto told Sky Sport Italia.
“I actually don’t know what to say, it was a sport the place we didn’t should be main at half-time. Within the second, regardless of it seeming like a fortunate evening for us, we nonetheless didn’t benefit from it, wasted a counter-attack for 2-0 after which conceded immediately.”
This consequence permits Fiorentina to leapfrog Lazio into seventh place within the Serie A desk and the percentages of closing on these Champions League spots are actually trying worrying.
“We have now misplaced too many video games not too long ago and this was an important fixture for the standings. We had been lower than it at the moment. We can not quit now, there are nonetheless too many rounds to go, however the desk is de facto robust now for Europe. We’ve bought to speak much less and prepare extra.”
There may be one other enormous fixture developing on Friday towards Milan, then the second leg of the Champions League Spherical of 16 away to Bayern Munich.
“If we’re eager about Bayern now, we’re out of our minds. If we don’t win with Milan, then we’ll actually battle to have faith going into the Champions League,” added Luis Alberto.
“This can be a actually unusual season, each time the sport comes alongside the place we really feel like we’ve taken a step ahead, as an alternative we take two steps again.”
#LuisAlberto: “Non siamo stati all’altezza della partita. Fortunati a finire il primo tempo in vantaggio” https://t.co/OWqPdPelYt
— Alfredo Pedullà (@AlfredoPedulla) February 26, 2024
