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Lazio pile on goals to atone promotion disappointment

  • Writer: Dag Jenkins
    Dag Jenkins
  • Jun 3, 2024
  • 3 min read

Game 38, Serie B

Sunday, June 3, 1962


Stadio Flaminio, Rome

Lazio-Alessandria 7-2


Lazio give Alessandria epic thrashing but Serie A must wait


Source Lazio Wiki
Source Lazio Wiki

Lazio were currently in 6th position but only one point behind three teams in 3rd place. The problem was this was the last game of the season so it was highly unlikely not one of them would win the last game and clinch the third promotion slot.

 

Lazio had so far won 13, drawn 14 and lost 10. A week earlier the Biancocelesti had lost a crucial promotion clash to Verona, 0-1 away thus practically ending any hopes of bouncing straight up to Serie A.

 

The match


A sunny June day only brought about 15,000 spectators to the Flaminio.

 

Lazio were without defender Adelmo Eufemi, midfielder Graziano Landoni and forward Claudio Bizzarri who was suspended.

 

Alessandria had midfielder Francesco Rizzo missing.

 

Lazio were on top from the start and went in front after a quarter of an hour. The visitors cleared the area but only as far as Graziano Landoni, he passed to Juan Carlos Morrone whose shot found the gap between the defenders and beat Sergio Notarnicola, 1-0.

 

The "Gaucho" Morrone scored again a minute later. He won the ball back, anticipating Antonio Schiavoni, and sent a surgical cross goal shot into the corner, 2-0 to Lazio.

 

Lazio were rampant and made it three in the 21st minute. This time Morrone was the assist man, he put Dimitri Pinti through on goal, his first effort was saved but he then scored on the rebound, 3-0 to Lazio.

 

Only four minutes passed before the Biancocelesti scored again. In the 25th minute a Mario Maraschi-Pinti move was finished off by Angelo Longoni, he controlled, dribbled past a defender and put an unstoppable shot past the keeper, 4-0.

 

Lazio then made it five in the 37th minute, this time with the complicity of the keeper. A Maraschi shot was parried and then Longoni from a difficult angle managed to score but with some help by Notarnicola who should have done better.

 

At halftime the score line was a rout, Lazio 5 Alessandria 0.

 

The situation did not change in the first part of the second half. In the 51st minute Maraschi's powerful strike bent Notarnicola's hands and went in for the 6-0. In the 57th minute Morrone got his hat-trick when he curled a freekick round the wall and in. Lazio 7 Alessandria 0.

 

At this point Lazio eased off and the Piedmontese managed to pull two goals back and save some face. In the 71st minute Renzo Cappellaro hit a shot which Idilio Cei could not hold onto due to its power and in the 83rd the centre-forward struck again surging forward and finishing a Giovanni Giacomazzi-Giuseppe Sala move. This goal was important for him personally as he became the league's top scorer with 21 goals.

 

The game ended 7-2. An epic win for Lazio but the other results had not gone their way so no last-minute miracle.

 

Who played for Lazio

Manager: Facchini

 

Who played for Alessandria

Notarnicola, Melideo, Giacomazzi, Migliavacca, Bassi, Schiavoni, Vitali, Cantone, Cappellaro, Sala, Bettini

Manager: Rava

 

Referee: Samani

 

Goals: 15' Morrone, 16' Morrone, 21' Pinti, 25' Longoni, 37' Longoni, 51' Maraschi, 57' Morrone, 70' Cappellaro, 81' Cappellaro

 

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