🔥 Roma beat Lazio, Mancini brace sends them 4th! Champions League close 🏆 | OneFootball

Roma dominate the derby, enjoy a spectacular Mancini, and incredibly move back into the Champions League places, taking advantage of Juventus’ home defeat against Fiorentina. A dream afternoon, then, for the Giallorossi, who complete a huge comeback and with 90 minutes left are masters of their own destiny.

With a win on the final matchday away to already-relegated Verona, it will be Champions League football. Mission almost accomplished for Gasp: just the final mile remains to bring the Roma fans back to the Europe that matters, through the front door.

Only good news from the afternoon at the Olimpico, then, where a fired-up Lazio were expected and a Roma side that could have been weighed down by the pressure of such an important match. Instead, the pitch told a very different story. Sarri’s team still looked shaken by the Coppa Italia final defeat and perhaps felt more than they should have the absence of a charismatic leader like Zaccagni, who today could have given something extra to a group that arrived completely drained at the end of a truly difficult season.

Tensions exploded in the huge brawl at the end, with Rovella and Wesley paying the price: the 42nd and 43rd red cards in the history of the Rome derby. 

Lazio’s season effectively ends here, and in the worst possible way, with a week that brought two heavy defeats to swallow. 

For Roma, meanwhile, the best is yet to come. See you in a week, to hear that little tune again that makes fans dream so much.

💥 Dovbyk hits the post! El Sha, what a miss...

Artem Dovbyk is seen again, coming on for Dybala in the 86th minute, and with the first ball he touches, two minutes later, he smashes the post!

Then in the 90th minute, El Shaarawy has the ball for 3-0, but from just a few steps out he incredibly puts it wide! It would have been the icing on the cake of his spell in Giallorosso.

🤬 HUGE BRAWL!

Another brawl, but this time there are consequences! After a foul right on the edge of Roma’s box, Rovella and Wesley come to blows! Maresca has his hands full trying to calm things down, with the benches on the pitch too!

In the end, the referee sends both of them off! The derby will finish 10 against 10!

⚽️ Mancini!!! Another from a corner, him again!

Roma double their lead, and it had been coming. From the 60th minute onward Furlanetto had saved Lazio several times, but he is beaten in the 67th minute by Mancini’s header!

A carbon copy of the first goal, except this time it’s not Pisilli taking the corner, but Dybala. The ball whipped in by La Joya’s left foot finds Mancini just outside the six-yard box. No. 23 rises above Gila - again - and beats Furlanetto!

🤔 Roma ask for a penalty!

In the 54th minute there’s an incident in the visitors’ box, with Rovella and Celik going up for a high ball after a throw-in.

The Biancocelesti midfielder spreads himself to gain position and bumps into the Roma defender, who goes down. For Maresca, nothing to report.

💨 Lazio start fast

Sarri’s team come back out with a different attitude from how the first half ended and immediately create two chances, but neither Nuno Tavares’ shot nor Cancellieri’s is a real threat to Svilar. Lazio are there, though.

🔥 WE’RE BACK UNDERWAY 🔥

🤬 Heads clash: Cancellieri-Hermoso!

The first sign of derby tension, with Hermoso and Cancellieri going face to face before both being booked.

The reason? The Roma defender didn’t appreciate the challenge from Lazio’s No. 22, who carried on with his momentum and ended up making contact with Svilar’s hands as the keeper came out.

⚽️ Mancini, Roma in front!

Roma take the lead in the 40th minute! A chance very similar to the one Gila missed a few minutes earlier, with Pisilli’s corner picking out Mancini right in the box.

The Roma defender’s leap is perfect and gives Furlanetto no chance! Roma in front and, as things stand, right in the Champions League places.

🚑 Gasp loses Ndicka!

Bad news for Roma, because in the 35th minute Ndicka goes down. It’s a muscular problem for him, and he has to leave the pitch. Rensch comes on.

💥 Lazio dangerous again!

Lazio are growing into it, all right, and in the 33rd minute they have the biggest chance of the match with Gila, who gets in front of everyone from a corner but sends it wide from close range!

Two minutes later it’s Lazio again, this time with Noslin, very close to taking the lead! The Dutchman’s left-footed effort, though, goes wide. But Roma are definitely at risk, just as news arrives of Fiorentina’s goal in Turin against Juventus.

⚽️❌ Dia scores, but he’s offside!

Lazio break the deadlock in the 29th minute through Dia, who collects a cross from Taylor and somehow beats Svilar after a couple of attempts.

Everything is stopped, though, because when the Dutchman played the pass, the Lazio forward was clearly offside.

🧤 Furlanetto prevents a possible own goal...

The first real chance of the derby comes in the 8th minute and - just like in the Coppa Italia - Lazio nearly hurt themselves. 

Malen rises to meet it, but it’s Nuno Tavares who makes contact and sends the ball toward the post of Furlanetto’s goal, forcing him into his first save in a Lazio shirt!

Then in the 23rd minute comes Lazio’s first shot on target, with Cancellieri testing Svilar from distance. The tempo has been slow so far. 

🖼️ Beautiful Roma choreography!

The Biancocelesti Curva Nord is not there, absent in protest against the ownership. On the other side, though, there is a beautiful display from the Giallorossi crowd.

🤯 Sarri: "The league is incapable of managing Italian football"

Before the match, Maurizio Sarri spoke to DAZN’s microphones, after his comments earlier in the week had already caused debate:

"Not showing up today? It was only a provocation, my opinion on a league that isn’t managing a championship that is already struggling in terms of image. Today was a day when a product could have been packaged that would have raised our profile in the eyes of the world, but instead an unappealing kick-off time was chosen. Too many experts in sports politics, but no experts in football."

👀 Giallorossi taunts about the final...

The derby atmosphere starts immediately thanks to the first banners mocking the outcome of the Coppa Italia final. 

This morning, in fact, a message aimed directly at Lazio appeared, clearly referring to the match lost against Inter due - also - to an own goal by Marusic...

Line-ups

ROMA (3-4-2-1): Svilar; Mancini, N'Dicka, Hermoso; Celik, Pisilli, El Aynaoui, Wesley; Cristante, Dybala; Malen. 

LAZIO (4-3-3): Furlanetto; Marusic, Gila, Provstgaard, Nuno Tavares; Basic, Rovella, Taylor; Cancellieri, Dia, Noslin.

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