Game 5, Serie A
Sunday, October 8, 1950
Stadio Torino, Rome
Lazio Udinese 3-2
Lazio manage to overcome difficulties and beat a good Udinese
Lazio so far had played four games, drawing the first with Inter 3-3 despite the fact they were down 3-0, lost with Padova and then beat Pro Patria at home and Torino away.
The match
The Biancocelesti immediately went on the attack and after three minutes they had already hit the woodwork even if it was an almost own goal by one of the Udinese players. But then, against the run of play, the Bianconeri went ahead. Emo Roffi on the left dribbled past a few players and crossed. The ball ended up on the other side to Giovanni Perissinotto who tried a shot, Lucidio Sentimenti IV saw the ball late but managed to parry, but he allowed a comfortable tap-in for Giuseppe Rinaldi.
Two minutes later Lazio equalised. Flavio Cecconi was the one who managed to find the gap amongst an array of legs in a massive scrummage. The Biancocelesti went on the assault and had a number of chances to score a winner: Aldo Puccinelli with a shot that went wide, Leoncino Unzain tried in the 18th minute but Marco Brandolin parried, Norbert Hofling on a cross from the Paraguayan passed the ball into the keepers’ hands from favourable position in the 23rd minute, a Cecconi missile saved by Zorzi on the line in the 30th minute.
In the 39th minute Brandolin gave Lazio a hand when on a high cross he missed the ball and allowed Enrique Flamini to head it in. A minute earlier Stelio Darin had hit the woodwork for the visitors.
Just when the first half was about to close, Udinese equalised. Darin tried a bicycle kick which was walled by a defender, Severino Feruglio crossed low from the right and Perissinotto was quick to put the ball in the back of the net.
In the 50th minute things went back into place. Flamini crossed for Hofling who stopped the ball with his chest and with a powerful volley beat Brandolin for the third time.
The game was over. Udinese had given all they had in the first half and ran out of gas. Lazio controlled the rest of the game with ease.
Good and difficult win for the Biancocelesti.
Who played for Lazio
Sentimenti IV, Antonazzi, Furiassi, Sentimenti III, Malacarne, Bimbi, Puccinelli, Flamini, Hofling, Cecconi, Unzain
Manager: Sperone
Who played for Udinese
Brandolin, Farina, Zorzi, Bergamasco, Feruglio, Snidero, Roffi, Perissinotto, Darin, Sorensen, Rinaldi
Manager: Testolina
Referee: Coralli
Goals: 12’ Rinaldi, 14’ Cecconi, 39’ Flamini, 45’ Perissinotto, 50’ Hofling
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