For the 12th day of the Serie A championship, Lazio-Salernitana 0-0
LIVE
will be played at the Olympic Stadium at 18.00
Eve.
Salernitana, then the decisive Europa League away match at Feyenoord, and the week ending with the derby.
The exams never end for Sarri's Lazio, driven by the wind of play and results, despite the fact that Immobile is still out.
Underestimating Salernitana would be, for Lazio, an unforgivable mistake at this moment of the season: Sarri's team has been able to put in two invaluable victories (at Atalanta and then in the Europa League with Midtjylland).
The biancocelesti, currently third in the league with 24 points, have not lost since September 3 and are the best defense in Serie A. To these numbers Lazio combines a pleasant and effective game;
which is why Salernitana (eleventh in the standings with 13 points) might seem (wrongly) a sort of sacrificial victim.
The precedents between the two, however, say Lazio: in the three games against the grenade at the Olimpico, the eagles have always won and scored at least three goals.
Sarri will ask him to maintain that maturity he often talks about in the press conference, an indication of the "mental quality leap" that is required of the great teams.
With Campania, Provedel will always be in goal (the best summer signing so far), with the returning Lazzari as right-back.
At the center of the defense, Casale will accumulate new minutes alongside Romagnoli.
The midfield will be the starting one (with Vecino mezzala in place of Luis Alberto, still on the bench), while the orphaned attack of Immobile will consist of three wings: Pedro, Felipe Anderson (who will do the false nueve) and Zaccagni.
During the game there may be room for the very young Luka Romero,
who in the few minutes granted him against Midtjylland showed good ideas and a desire to break the world.
The coach knows this and is counting on the contribution of the Argentine and Cancellieri in the matches that are missing between now and the stop for the World Cup.
On November 6 there is the derby, then Monza and then Juve: if Immobile fails to anticipate his return to the field before 2023, his contribution in goals and assists will have to be distributed among his teammates.
