A brace from Italian Ciro Immobile was what Lazio needed on Sunday to overthrow Salernitana and squeeze into Champions League positions while they await the outcome of Roma, who will play their game under pressure of a forced victory to take fourth place.
The Italian striker needed just five minutes to seal victory for his side at a key moment in the equal fight for the European places in which Atalanta dropped points against Lecce.
The international ‘azzurro’ ended the great collective game of the ‘biancocelesti’ in front of goal, always well placed at the precise moment, to unlock the game in the 60th minute and lay the foundations for a victory that he would complete himself .
He did it from eleven meters away, a penalty he also caused in the 65th minute, taking oil on a game that was going nowhere, weaving between the defender and the Italian goalkeeper Luigi Sepe , who regained his rights in front of the Mexican Guillermo. Memo’Ochoa, to force the maximum sentence.
Spaniard Luis ALberto was able to complete the victory, who jumped onto the green from the bench, but missed the penalty in the 90th minute of the match.
The victory of the men led by the Italian Maurizio Sarri hoists them practically in fourth position, while waiting for their Roman neighbors to play their clash against Hellas Verona.
For his part, Salernitana, in what was the debut of the Portuguese Paulo Sousa on the bench, added his third consecutive defeat and could not move away definitively from the relegation places, sixteenth with 21 points, four from the area of danger.