Game 9, Serie A
Sunday, November 23, 1930
Stadio Rondinella, Rome
Lazio-Genova 1893 5-0
Lazio score five times against a dismal Genova
In the first 8 games Lazio had won four (including beating Bologna and a 1-0 win in Milan), lost three and drawn the opening game and were currently seventh, only two points off second place.
The match: Sunday, November 23, 1930, Stadio Rondinella, Rome
Lazio almost scored immediately despite playing against the sun. Piero Pastore with a spectacular acrobatic bicycle kick in the first minute of play allowed Manilo Bacigalupo to show off his skills as he miraculously parried. But after five minutes, the Biancocelesti stopped playing and left the initiative to the Ligurians who however were unable to break down Lazio's defensive wall.
Nothing much else happened in the first half, but in the second there were fireworks. In the 50th minute a great shot from Carlo Cevenini V opened the score and seven minutes later Lazio doubled. Pastore set up Alfredo Foni who had a simple chance and did not miss.
Genoa only mustered some type of reaction in the 60th minute but it did not last and the Biancocelesti, urged on by the crowd, in the 75th minute made it three thanks to Mario Malatesta. Pastore, easily the best man on the pitch, finally found satisfaction when a magnificent bicycle kick gave Lazio their fourth goal.
The Ligurians at this point, especially since Benito Mussolini was in the stands watching, put in their maximum effort and hit the woodwork twice with Elvio Banchero and Virgilio Levratto and may have even deserved to score but Ezio Sclavi was not in the mood to concede and saved everything he could. At a certain point, Levratto had a nervous breakdown and started to weep. But the crowd cheered him on and he got over it.
Not happy with the 4-0, Malatesta made it five in the 89th minute.
(NB. Genova 1893 is in fact Genoa Cricket and Football Club. They had to change names in 1928 when the Fascist regime made clubs change names to make them more Italian).
Who played for Lazio
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Manager: Molnar
Who played for Genova 1893
Bacigalupo, Lombardo, Spigno, Barbieri I, Albertoni, Burlando, Patri, Bodini I, Stabile, Banchero I, Levratto
Manager: Szekany
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Referee: Gama
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Goals: 50’ Cevenini V, 67’ Foni, 75’ Malatesta, 80’ Pastore, 89’ Malatesta
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