Lotito claims ‘no-one heard’ Lazio fans racially abuse Lukaku

Lazio president Claudio Lotito denied the report that the supporters chanted racist abuse at Roma‘s Romelu Lukaku within the current Coppa Italia derby.

The Biancocelesti have been fined €50,000 and handed a partial stadium closure after the sporting choose’s report, which famous that Lukaku was racially abused by a big part of the group throughout the current Coppa Italia quarter-final Derby della Capitale, which ended 1-0 in Lazio’s favour.

Lazio followers have been additionally punished for his or her throwing of missiles together with bottles and smoke bombs, with a beer bottle hitting Roma midfielder Edoardo Bove when he was being taken off the pitch. There have been additionally reviews of fan clashes exterior the Stadio Olimpico.

Talking to the press at an occasion in Rome through TMW, Lotito was requested in regards to the sporting choose’s determination to punish Lazio for the followers’ behaviour within the current derby victory.

“I don’t need to begin controversy. I’ll replicate on it, within the report it says 90% of 16,000, wrongly, as a result of there have been over 19,000 current. Did you hear 17,000 folks abusing Lukaku?

“If that have been the case, I ask myself a query: the Gos observer, why didn’t he make an enchantment throughout the match? And the referee Orsato, exactly, why didn’t he say something?

“I don’t need to go into the deserves, however in life there are info, you need to know the best way to lose. We attempt to additionally educate our folks in regards to the tradition of defeat. When the administration of sure conditions is contaminated by fan positions it turns into an issue.”

He confirmed that Lazio would enchantment towards the punishment, which incorporates the closure of 4 sections of the Stadio Olimpico for the approaching conflict with Napoli.

“We are going to enchantment, and we will even take motion somewhere else. All the things will be stated about Lazio, however not that the workforce are racist or anti-Semitic or no matter they accuse us of.

“It’s unthinkable for the undersigned, who as group chief is a part of the Segre Fee, then there’s Professor Gambino on the Board of Administrators, in addition to the president Mario Venezia of the Shoa Basis throughout the Board of Administrators.

“I didn’t hear these chants, I’ll be sincere. However I’m not saying it due to a partisan drawback, I’m saying it as a result of nobody heard them.”