Champions: Lazio decimated suffers in Bruges, but is even

A revamped Lazio cause injuries and positive buffers, snatches a point at the home of the Belgian champions, Bruges, and proving to know how to suffer keeps in the running for the passage to the second round. The test of the biancocelesti, today with a fluorescent green shirt, was a pride and deserves applause, apart from Patric, author of an unfortunate intervention that resulted in the rigor of Bruges. At the end of the first half Inzaghi left him in the locker room, replacing him with Pereira (Parolo was moved to defense), a sign that the coach was angry with the Catalan defender. Above all Milinkovic, master of the midfield, who made the department almost alone and in the second half touched the goal of success: but Mignolet was very good at opposing. In the end, however, a precious point came out, taking into account the decimated staff, which allows us to maintain the lead in the group pending the confrontation with the Zenit who lost even today, with Borussia. It was complicated to do better, given the situation (the sports director Tare even aired the possibility of asking for the postponement of the championship match with Turin), and therefore this equal is welcome against a rival who has proved to be of a good level and unwilling to act as a sparring partner. In the last part of the second half the Bruges players wasted with aiming errors and to increase Lazio's coefficient of difficulty came Caicedo's shoulder injury, which forced Inzaghi to enter Primavera Czyz in the 68th minute. At one point it was almost a monologue of the Belgian champions, who, however, lacked, as in the first 45 ', only the final lunge. M In the first half Lazio, conditioned by the absences but not for this compliant, and indeed protagonist of a first half of pride and seriousness, had shown greater attention than usual in the defensive phase, limiting the descents on the flanks of Marusic and Fares. However, despite the match played as if the Covid problem did not exist, it had also revealed naivety such as the one that, at 42 ', had caused the penalty in favor of Bruges, with an unnecessary push in the area of ​​Patric in Rits, given by the referee who granted the penalty after consulting the Var. The too much vehemence in the interventions had also cost Hoedt the yellow card. But Lazio had made his game, first of all with the action that after 14 minutes had led to the goal of Correa, who had concluded the best of his left foot, a beautiful action that he himself set and finished after the 'give and go with Marusic. Bruges, for its part, had shown a certain inability on the part of the two central defenders to keep the line (but they were returning after having disposed of Covid) and therefore to position themselves in the right way. The Belgians were also more proactive forward but with little construct. Ditto in the second half, and one would think that a full-fledged Lazio at home to the Belgians would have won. But it is a doubt that will not be resolved.