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Serie A | Lazio 0-1 Genoa: Retegui adds to Aquile woes

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2 years ago

10:51 pm

Mateo Retegui scored his first Serie A objective and it was sufficient to present Genoa a large win on the Olimpico, as Lazio are left empty-handed after two rounds and livid at two snubbed penalty appeals.

Maurizio Sarri was already feeling the stress after a shock 2-1 defeat away to Lecce, with Pedro and Marcos Antonio carrying knocks. The Grifone started their season with a 4-1 defeat to Fiorentina, however welcomed again Stefano Sabelli and Kevin Strootman after bans, giving Ruslan Malinovskyi his debut. Junior Messias, Marko Pajac and Alessandro Vogliacco have been injured.

Retegui nodded an Albert Gudmundsson cross straight at Ivan Provedel within the opening minutes, then Genoa rattled the body of the objective with a misplaced Johan Vasquez cross that changed into a shot to shock the goalkeeper.

Genoa took the lead quickly after with a chaotic transfer, as a poor clearance got here to Frendrup, his chest and volley was parried into the trail of Retegui for the header and his debut Serie A objective.

Ciro Motionless had penalty appeals waved away for a Rade Dragusin nudge, because the referee was in an excellent place and waved play on.

Lazio have been much more livid when one other penalty enchantment was rejected on the stroke of half-time, however the referee and VAR evaluated the incident and maintained Mattia Zaccagni had already misplaced the ball earlier than Mattia Bani went in.

Moments later, Bani made a decisive deal with to cease Daichi Kamada assembly the Manuel Lazzari roll throughout from 12 yards. Luis Alberto tried to attain immediately from the nook flag, denied by a tough fingertip save.

Zaccagni’s effort was deflected simply large after a shinned clearance, then Josep Martinez flew for a fingertip save on the pleasant Luis Alberto lob.

Nevertheless, Genoa have been harmful on the counter-attack, Provedel getting one glove to a Frendrup pull-back.

Lazio have been throwing every part on the Grifone, as Motionless noticed his lob from a Zaccagni help beat Martinez solely to crack in opposition to the crossbar.

Matias Vecino examined the goalkeeper from distance and nodded one other likelihood over, whereas Taty Castellanos noticed his header go large from a Zaccagni cross.

Caleb Ekuban might’ve killed it on the 89^th when assembly the Gudmundsson cross-field go, however drilled large on the counter-attack.

Even in stoppages, Castellanos couldn’t preserve the header on track from a nook.

Lazio 0-1 Genoa

Retegui 16 (G)