Game 8, Serie A
Sunday December 8, 1957
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Lazio Torino 1-1
Torino dominate but Lazio manage to earn a point
After 12 games Lazio were ninth, two points clear of the relegation zone (occupied by Atalanta and Milan!!!). The situation was not looking good.
The match
The game was largely dominated by Torino but it was Lazio who scored first. The Biancocelesti started really well, putting the Granata in difficulty. In the 18th minute Ermes Muccinelli deservedly put Lazio ahead. Free kick for the Biancocelesti, cross into the box and the little Lazio winger managed to put the ball past Vincenzo Rigamonti despite being sandwiched between two defenders.
At this point Torino started to play and put the Biancocelesti in great difficulty. It was as if Lazio thought that they would certainly lose, so Torino did what they wanted to. Towards the end of the half, first Antoine Bonifaci with a clinical shot forced Bob Lovati to save into corner, then Quinto Bertoloni had a chance more difficult to miss than to score but he chose the difficult way and missed.
In the second half Torino equalised almost immediately in the 49th minute. Sergio Santelli after having received the ball from Bertoloni, from the left waited for Lovati to come off his line to face him and beat the Lazio goalkeeper with a powerful shot.
Six minutes later Bertoloni scored but the referee, after a chat with the linesman, decided that the Granata forward was in offside. Later on in the match Torino had an enormous chance when Santelli only had to choose who to pass to and it would have been a certain goal. But the right wing decided to shoot and Giovanni Molino, running back in a desperate attempt, managed to divert the ball into corner.
A difficult match for Lazio
Who played for Lazio
Manager: Ciric
Who played for Torino
Rigamonti, Grava, Cuscela, Bearzot, Ganzer, Fogli, Santelli, Armano, Bonifaci, Bertoloni, Tacchi.
Manager: Marjanovic.
Referee: Ferrari
Goals: 18’ Muccinelli, 49’ Santelli
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