Lazio just crashed the party, moving level on points with Inter Milan at the very top of Serie A after a massive 3-1 win over Monza on Sunday. This team is absolutely on fire, but get this, their own coach is already talking about getting “dizzy” and fans are still boycotting home games. What a wild ride in the Emerald City, man. Oh wait, this ain’t Seattle but the energy is the same. This is soccer at its most chaotic and brilliant!
Gattuso’s “Dizzy” Squad Is Unbeaten, But Can They Keep This Up?
Seriously, Lazio is playing out of their minds right now. They’re still unbeaten, logging their fifth victory in six matches, which is just insane consistency. They went toe-to-toe with Inter at 16 points, all after Inter rolled Parma 3-0 on Saturday. Nuno Tavares wasted no time, smashing in a spectacular long-range goal in the third minute against Monza. Then Gustav Isaksen doubled the lead mid-first half. It looked like a total blowout until Monza’s Lorenzo Lucchesi got sent off in the 35th minute for hauling down Tijjani Noslin, who was clear through on goal. You’d think that would be game over, right? Nope. Monza actually rattled Lazio after the break, pulling one back and even coming close to leveling it before Lazio finally sealed the deal with a third goal late in the game. Lazio boss Gennaro Gattuso even admitted, “We can’t look at the standings, otherwise we will get dizzy. We have to take it day by day.” Meanwhile, fans are still protesting owner Claudio Lotito, leading to sparse crowds at home. Imagine being at the top, playing incredible football, and your own supporters are boycotting. It’s absolutely bonkers!
Meanwhile, The Big Clubs Are Just Stumbling All Over Themselves
While Lazio is flying high, the traditional heavyweights who were supposed to be leading the charge are just… struggling. Roma, for example, couldn’t buy a goal, drawing 0-0 with Como. Donyell Malen getting a red card didn’t exactly help their cause. They’re now two points back in third place. Then you have AC Milan, who maintained their unbeaten start but drew for the third time in their last four league games with a 1-1 tie at Sassuolo. They’re four points off the pace in fifth. Matteo Gabbia went down injured early, which is never a good look, and even after Luka Modric set up Adrien Rabiot for a powerful finish in the 63rd minute, Milan’s lead lasted just five minutes before substitute Cas Odenthal snagged an equalizer from a corner. Coach Ruben Amorim was not happy, saying, “We deserved to take the lead, but then after the goal we didn’t control the game. When we had the ball, we lost it really fast.” Yikes.
And don’t even get me started on Juventus. They got held 1-1 by the surprise package Cagliari, who are rocking the best defensive record in the league right now. Daniel Maldini, son of the legend Paolo, scored for the fourth game in a row on his 25th birthday, putting Cagliari ahead. Juve dominated possession but couldn’t create anything until Randal Kolo Muani finally headed home an equalizer in the 81st minute. He even rattled the bar four minutes later, almost getting the winner. But the real drama? Tempers flared at full-time, and both coaches, Fabio Pisacane of Cagliari and Luciano Spalletti of Juventus, got red-carded! Spalletti tried to play it off, saying he just told Pisacane they played good football but wasted time, and they both got kicked out. “Nothing major, all pretty normal,” he claimed. Yeah, sure, totally normal!
This Serie A season is already absolutely unhinged. Lazio is defying expectations and fan protests to sit atop the league. Roma and AC Milan are dropping points, and Juventus is barely scraping by, with their coach getting into it on the sideline. With the standings so tight at the top , Lazio and Inter at 16, Roma at 14, Cagliari and AC Milan at 12, and Juve at 10 , every single match feels like a championship decider. You absolutely do not want to miss what happens next weekend. It’s gonna be a wild one, folks!
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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