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Simon Basten
Apr 14, 2024
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Season 1928-29

Game 22, National Division, Group B

Sunday, April 14, 1929

Campo Rondinella, Rome

Lazio Verona 3-0

Lazio score three in the first half hour demolishing Verona

Lazio’s first three games were all defeats: 6-2 against Bologna away, 1-0 at home to Brescia and 4-2 at Cremona. Manager Franz Sedlacek was sacked and in came former Lazio legend Fernando Saraceni. He brought some improvement. After the bad start Lazio gradually started to play well and accumulate points. At the end of the first 15 games the Biancocelesti had won three, drawn two but lost the rest. In came new manager Augusto Rangone as the Biancocelesti were still struggling, In the six games under the new manager they had won two and lost four. A win today was fundamental.

The match

Verona arrived in Rome without five first team players and based their game on merely containing the Lazio attacks. But already in the 2nd minute Libero Molinis gave the Biancocelesti the lead after a good combination between Marino Furlani, Silvio Griggio III and Gino Lamon. The Scaligeri did not have the strength and ability to react and in the 17th minute Griggio III rushed towards the Verona box and beat Guido Masetti with a precise shot. Ten minutes later it was Furlani who headed the ball in off a corner and once again beat the guiltless Gialloblu goalkeeper. In the second half, the game quietened down and Lazio did not exert themselves excessively, hence disappointing the crowd who booed the teams loudly. The goalkeepers had nothing to do and the referee's final whistle put an end to a game which in the second 45 minutes had been pretty dismal.