Third consecutive win

Simon Basten
Oct 17, 2023
2 min read

Season 1981-82

Game 6, Serie B

Sunday, October 18, 1981

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Lazio Lecce 4-0

Lazio demolish Lecce thanks to Bigon, Ferretti and a D'Amico brace

Lazio, after having been immediately eliminated in Coppa Italia, had not started well and in the first three games they earned just a point. But they had won the last two matches. Time to make it three in a row.

The match

The tense equilibrium of the opening half-hour was finally broken in the 29th minute: Alberto Bigon rose above the defence and nodded home a pinpoint cross from Vincenzo Chiarenza, giving Lazio the lead. Barely a minute later, Sergio Magistrelli was tripped in the box by Dario Pighin, but referee Paolo Casarin — returning to the pitch after a six-month “punitive” suspension — waved away the Lecce protests for a penalty. Perhaps a goal then might have momentarily revived the Apulians’ hopes, yet it would not have altered the destiny of the match.

In the 37th minute, following a neat exchange with Nando Viola, Stefano Ferretti smashed a shot against the crossbar as the goalkeeper came rushing out. He would make amends in the 63rd minute, unleashing a thunderbolt from outside the area that screamed into the top corner of the Lecce net. With Lecce now visibly fading, Lazio seized total command of the contest, marching forward without further resistance.

Vincenzo D’Amico put on a display of pure class, capping his fine performance in the 78th minute: deftly weaving past defenders on the right edge of the Lecce penalty area, he fired a low diagonal shot that left goalkeeper Graziano De Luca rooted to the spot. Two minutes later, Ferretti — the revelation of the day — struck the post again, before D’Amico rounded off the rout in the 84th minute from the penalty spot, after Ferretti was brought down by Domenico Progna.

Who played for Lazio

Marigo, Spinozzi, Chiarenza, Mastropasqua, Pighin, Badiani, Viola, Bigon, D’Amico, Ferretti, Speggiorin (73’ Marronaro)