Race for the Scudetto: A Roma disaster; Beautiful Inter Milan; Sarri's Lazio win with catenaccio
The third match day of Serie A is now in the books: Italian fans were able to witness three big games - Roma-Milan, Napoli-Lazio and Inter-Fiorentina. Lots of goals, lots of emotions and still no victory for Jose Mourinho and his boys. Instead, Lazio pulled off a real shock by convincingly defeating Napoli. Let's see what happened over the weekend:
MATCH OF THE WEEK - NAPOLI-LAZIO
A two-sided game: the first half was almost entirely Napoli's, with the boys now coached by Rudi Garcia keeping possession throughout, coming close to scoring several times and even ending the first 45 minutes at 1-1, with Lazio having managed to take the lead with just the one shot.
In the second half, Maurizio Sarri's team simply waited in their part of the pitch to counter-attack, using something very similar to "catenaccio" and Napoli fell into the trap, often leaving their defenders in dangerous 1 vs 1 situations against Lazio's strikers.
Felipe Anderson was having a perfect day and was always unstoppable for Juan Jesus and Amir Rrahmani. As was Luis Alberto,who after the departure of Sergej Milinkovic-Savic is now the best player on the team. Lazio won 1-2, had two goals denied for offside and in the second half could have humiliated Napoli, after holding out during the first half also thanks to some miraculous saves by Ivan Provedel, who was decisive for the triumph.
A first positive result for Sarri's team, 3 points after the two defeats against Lecce and Genoa: the best possible way to change their course.
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK - BERARDI AND SCAMACCA
After a summer spent waiting for news from the market, after the many rumours about a possible transfer - first to Lazio and then to Juventus - after the pleas to stay by Sassuolo
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