Hanging Our Heads In Shame

By: cathal | November 7th, 2009

What have we all done to deserve this? Lazio succumbed to a killer 4-1 defeat at the hands of Villarreal in a game that quickly became excruciating to watch and got progressively more painful. It was my intention to bring you a LiveBlog but having been delayed and returning home to a 3-0 deficit, I could not muster the courage. Where do we go from here?

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There are various incidents of the game I could focus on but I think they have already been discussed so to cut a long story short:

The referee? Yes, he was dire.
Baronio? He was an idiot but the sending off was still farcical.
Ballardini? Let’s discuss that one later.
Lotito? Let’s not.

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We have issues and if you haven’t realised that by now, you have gone into hibernation way too early. However, it seems to me that people are very much forgetting about the fact we conceded four goals, played the majority of the game with the same number of men and couldn’t take a single chance to save our lives (well, maybe one). Of course our luck is part of the issue or issues but as I’ve said time after time in the last few weeks, if you’re going to miss the simplest of chances, you are going to lose games. Once again, it happened and in spectacular fashion. It is the minor names that are shining right now and it is the major stars who are failing to make the grade and for that reason, we are starting to look second-rate. When Baronio is the showstopper or Mauri is the creative spark, you know that wounds lie beneath the surface and until we stop the rot, these wounds won’t heal. One day all the elements will come together and that day can’t come soon enough. Hopefully Milan are the ones to fall. Forza Lazio!

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Reaction:
Silenzio stampa is still very much in force and one could argue that it has been reinforced. Seemingly the club believe they were mistreated by Villarreal and a few words could be had with UEFA. As for any insightful thoughts on the match, you will have to conjure up your own; our media men are not feeling talkative.

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