Lazio-Monza 5-1: the Biancocelesti mistreat the Brianza team and take back fourth place

Rome 9 February 2025 - Everything too easy for the Lazio in the challenge at the Olimpico against the MonzaThe Capitoline team demolished the red and whites with a clear 5-1 and returned to fourth place alone, awaiting the postponement of the Fiorentina. The Brianza trap was avoided by the boys of Baroni. Marusic unlocks the match in the first half, then Pedro signs the doubling. The first two goals are assisted by Castilians, who then takes matters into his own hands and scores the third goal. In the final minutes, again Pedro then Dele Bashiru round off the score, the two goals interspersed with the penalty scored by Sensi. Big party at the Olimpico for the white and blue Eagle, Monza increasingly alone at the bottom of the table.

First half

It fully confirms the impressions of the eve Baroni, confirmed the standard version of his 4-2-3-1 against the Brianza team. In front of Provedel, the four-line is composed of Marusic, Romagnoli, Crazy e Tavares. Guendouzi e rovella It's the couple in the middle. Forward instead Castilians he is the reference in attack, supported in three-quarters by Day in the center, Isaac right and Weather in Zaccagni to the left. Vents instead, without Turati, chooses Pizzagnacco between the posts. The three-man line behind is made up of Izzo, Lekovic e Palacios. Urbanski e White they are the midfield couple, with Martins to the right, Pereira to the left. Cyurria and Dany Speck they are the two attacking midfielders behind Ganvoula.

The pace was rather slow in the first minutes of the match: the two teams studied each other and began to look for their respective spaces in depth to attack the depth. The guests tried to make their men run forward with long throws, the Lazio Instead, he always relies on his players' running with the ball, especially on the lanes. isaken It takes a few minutes to warm up, but it seems hot right away Castles, the first to flirt with the advantage in the Capitoline home. In fact, the Argentine in the 11th minute begins to warm up his gloves Pizzignacco with a sudden right-footed shot from thirty metres, but the Brianza goalkeeper stretches out to block the conclusion.

The conclusion of the Taty almost seems like a wake-up call for the Biancocelesti. The team of Baroni grows and still looks for the goal of the advantage. After the ring of his own bomber, the captain also tries. Isaac begins to scare the red and white rearguard. The Dane leaves on the spot Palacios and serves his number ten well in the area, but the header from Weather in Zaccagni he almost misses the door mirror.

The Capitoline team, however, insist and the second quarter of an hour of the first half is exclusively dominated by Lazio, until the Biancocelesti take the lead. They try in sequence Castilians, Romagnoli, Weather in Zaccagni, then Taty again and the captain again, but with some difficulty the Monza rearguard holds the shock. At 31' the boys of Vents they must raise the white flag. Isaac completely throws the opposing defense off balance, then offers it to Guendouzi for the cross. The Frenchman fishes Castilians on the far post, header towards the centre of the area where it arrives Marusic, who pushes the ball towards the goal and scores the 1-0 at the Olimpico. 

In the next five minutes there are also two changes, one for each side, but for different reasons. Immediately after the goal Monza changes, with the entry of Kyriakopoulos for Martins, a technical choice by Vents not welcomed very well by the son of the former Inter player Obafemi. Then the Lazio Pedro to detect Day, but specifically the Senegalese had received a blow from Izzo in the penalty area, a clash of play, where however he gets the worst of it and is substituted as a precaution. Beyond these two substitutions there is little to say about the end of the first half, with the home team doing well to manage the result until the double whistle Aureliano, only the yellow card waved towards should be noted Pereira. It ends 1-0 for the Lazio on Monza the first half of the match at the Olimpico.

Second half

No changes at half-time for the two teams, the match resumes with the same 22 protagonists who closed the first half. The script is the same as the end of the first half: the Monza tries to manage the ball to attack the depth, but often loses possession as soon as he passes the midfield line and opens up to the very fast counterattacks of the Biancocelesti. Super for example is the acceleration of Iskasen in the 51st minute, when he received the ball very well from Pedro: stop and left-footed shot for the Dane, but the attempt goes just wide of the opposite post. Four minutes later it's the turn of Marusic, who shoots from the edge of the area: however, Pizzignacco blocks in two stages.

The Biancoceleste's second goal seemed just around the corner and in the 57th minute came the goal that practically put the match on ice. Castilians receives the ball in the three-quarter line and fishes out the deep cut with a delightful assist Pedro. Taty's illuminating ball and the Spaniard all alone in front of the exit of Pizzagnacco: touch to get past the goalkeeper Monza and 2-0 served at the Olimpico. The eternal Iberian striker celebrates together with the members of the bench, while the Brianza team seems definitively on the ropes. 

Vents try to look for a reaction from the bench: in fact they enter Sensi e Castrovilli, thus changing the composition of the red and white midfield, but it is always the home team that dictates the tempo of the game. After two beautiful assists, personal joy also arrives for Taty, who puts his signature on this match, scoring the 3-0 goal. Descent of Weather in Zaccagni on the right, opposed in truth in a rather passive manner by the Brianza defence. The number 10 has all the time in the world to serve the trailers of Castilians: open right foot and the ball in the net just inside the post. The Olimpico is celebrating the goal of its striker, who had not scored since September at home.

With a three-goal advantage, Lazio can afford to start managing energies and rotations: they enter Dele Bashiru e Lazzari, they go out Isaac e Nuno tavares. He sketches a reaction three minutes after the third goal Monza, with the beautiful construction on the left. The cut ball runs along the entire long side of the penalty area, before arriving from Pereira, but his right diagonal shot just misses the target. The visitors' shot, however, is just a flash in an afternoon all in white and blue.

Dele Bashiru e Weather in Zaccagni they waste two great opportunities to even score a fourth goal, but the changes Baroni, or rather the entries of Tchaouna and Noslin for Zaccagni and Castellanos, are worth the poker for Lazio. Nice vertical combination right between the two new entries, in the end it is the Dutchman who offers the bank for Pedro, good with the diagonal to put his left-footed signature on the 4-0 for the capital. The match now continues on autopilot. Vents continue the rotations and send out the players Zeroli e vineyard for White e Given Mota and also finds the goal of pride at the end of the match. Penalty in the 85th minute for the guests for the careless handball in the area by Lazzari, penalty awarded after the VAR warning against AurelianoFrom eleven meters Sensi opens the right, Provedel He pinches the ball with his gloves, but can't get it out of the net.

The match seems to be coming to an end without any further shocks, but he doesn't agree about it Dele BashiruThe minute is number 88 when the Nigerian enters the penalty area on the pass of rovella, resists a charge from the defenders, then unleashes a powerful left-footed shot that ends up under the crossbar. A five-goal effort from Lazio al Monza, which is worth 5-1, the final result of the match after 3 minutes of injury time. An important success both in terms of the gap and in terms of play, for a team, the white and blue one, now once again alone in fourth place, waiting for the Fiorentina; disaster in Brianza, the red and whites demolished and increasingly last in the standings.