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MOTD- AS Roma 0-1 Lazio

By on May 26, 2013

Senad Lulic has won Lazio Coppa Italia glory in a thrilling Rome derby, with the Biancocelesti beating AS Roma 1-0 in the 2013 Coppa Italia final to earn Lazio their sixth Coppa Italia title. Although Roma started the match in the upper hand, Lazio came close to taking an early lead in the fourth minute when Senad Lulic cut inside from the left, before curling an excellent low shot across goal, which Roma goalkeeper Bogdan Lobont smartly parried away. Lazio slowly began to gain control of the match, keeping much of the possession, leaving Roma left to play on the counter-attack.

Roma came close when Michael Bradley had his shot from fifteen yards out whizz inches wide of the post, but both sides lacked any real momentum. Lazio nearly took the lead in the thirty-fifth minute when Stefan Radu’s overhit cross from the right fell to Cristian Ledesma on the left flank. Ledesma sent in a brilliant delivery to the back post where Miroslav Klose had his header from point-blank range parried out by Lobont. Klose then became the fifth man to be booked, with the forward’s clumsy challenge on Nicolas Burdisso earning him a rightful yellow card. Roma had an excellent chance to take the lead moments before half-time, but Mattia Destro’s header on the back post flew inches above the crossbar after Aoas Marquinhos brilliantly picked the striker out with a cross from the right following the right-back’s storming run down the right. Still, neither side could grab the opener before the end of the first half, which ended 0-0 after a minute of added time.

The second half began brightly, with the match end-to-end. Francesco Totti saw his long-range effort ballon just over the bar in the sixty-third minute, before Lazio goalkeeper Federico Marchetti amazingly tip Totti’s fizzing low drive just wide of the post. Despite slight pressure from Roma, Lazio scored the opener in the seventy-first minute when Antonio Candreva was slipped in down the right side of the Roma box. Candreva released a low cross across the face of goal, which Lobont only managed to palm into the path of Lulic, who simply had to tap the ball into the back of the open net at the far post.

Roma came inches away from grabbing a freakish equalizer in the seventy-third minute from a free-kick. Totti lofted the ball into the box from forty-yards out, but nobody got a touch on it and it awkwardly bounced in front of Marchetti, who just managed to tip it onto the crossbar. Roma committed to many men forward in a desperate win to equalize, but couldn’t find the all-important goal, and after three minutes of added time Lazio won the Coppa Italia final 1-0.
Man of the Match: Senad Lulic

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