Very easy

Season 2014-15

Game 30, Serie A

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Lazio Empoli 4-0

With three goals in the first half and one in the second, the Biancocelesti demolish Empoli and climb to second place

Lazio struggled in the beginning. In the third fixture, away at Genoa, Santiago Gentiletti got seriously injured and the Biancocelesti had difficulty in replacing him. But then things started to work out and Lazio ended the first part of the season in fifth place, two points from third. More importantly, one could see that Felipe Anderson was in the form of his life and had been devastating in some matches.

So, at the end of the first half of the season Lazio were fifth, two points behind Napoli and Sampdoria, third.

In the first game of the second round of fixtures the Biancocelesti demolished Milan 3-1 but then lost two consecutive matches, away at Cesena and at home to Genoa. From then on, they started a run of seven consecutive wins that took them to third place, just one point behind Roma. Direct Champions League qualification was just a point away.

The match

It took Lazio just four minutes to take the lead. Pedro Cavanda on the right crossed into the middle of the box and Stefano Mauri headed the ball in. Empoli tried a reaction but just hit the Biancoceleste wall. In the 31st minute Miro Klose from outside the box passed to the right again to Cavanda. Another perfect cross in the middle of the area and a header by the Goal Fisher made it two. In the 43rd minute Antonio Candreva from outside the box on the left decided to go for the shot, 3-0 for Lazio. Too easy for the Biancocelesti.

In the 53rd minute Klose stole a ball off Riccardo Saponara and ran towards the box, low cross to the middle for Felipe Anderson, Luigi Sepe parried, but Felipetto was there for the tap in and Lazio 4 Empoli 0.

After Massimo Maccarone, on a free kick, had allowed Etrit Berisha to shine too, the referee decided he wanted to become the protagonist and gave Diego Novaretti a second yellow for a non-existent foul. Empoli tried to reduce the deficit and went close, but Berisha made another great save on a Manuel Pucciarelli header.

Eighth win in a row for Lazio, Roma drew, so the Biancocelesti were now second.

Who played for Lazio

Berisha, Cavanda, de Vrij (40’ Novaretti), Cana, Lulic, Biglia, Parolo (79’ Cataldi), Candreva, Mauri, Felipe Anderson, Klose (60’ Ciani)