A bitter 4-1 win. Lazio mainstay announces departure, fans sad

Rarely does a 4-1 win taste as bitter as it did for Lazio Rome on Friday. The team from the capital defeated Salernitana at home, but it didn’t help them in the table and one of the club captains announced his departure.

Lazio played the game they needed on Friday night. The last few weeks have been marked by losses or close wins. The most painful was being knocked out of the Champions League after a 1-0 home win over Bayern in the eighth round.

Trophy or nothing

Despite the win, Lazio are still seventh in the table and the Top 5 guaranteeing the Champions League is still six points away. Fifth city rival AS Roma, however, have a game in hand and Lazio have only six league rounds to go before the end of the season.

“Good win. Now we have to repeat this performance on April 23 against Juventus in the Copa Italia to save the season,” wrote Roma supporter Simone aptly in a liked comment on Lazio’s Instagram .

The Copa Italia is now Lazio’s last possible route to the trophy. And the Romans have a lot of catching up to do in this competition too, as they fell 0-2 to Juventus in the opening semi-final in Turin.

The departure of another key midfielder

After a long time, the feeling of dominance quickly drained out of Lazio fans. One of the team captains and former Spanish international Luis Alberto revealed in a post-match interview that he will leave the club after the season.

“Luis Alberto, you ruined my evening with those statements,” a Males supporter responded to Alberto’s rather critical comments about the club in the interview. Lazio fans didn’t expect something like that from him, after all he has been at the club since 2016.

The fans of the Blue and Whites have already received another slap in the face in the near past, when Serbian international Sergej Milinkovic-Savic left last summer. The club’s most expensive player chose to have an adventure in Saudi Arabia, which some still haven’t forgiven him for.

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