As predicted…

By: salvatore | April 21st, 2008

The boys in Biancoceleste blew it against Catania yesterday. There seemed to be the wrong attitude going in, which spelled trouble, and with two expulsions added in for good measure, well, you have your defeat.

Frown

The 9 man adventure started when Zauri pulled Mascara down in the box for a penalty, and got a straight red for his efforts. Dabo was then booked for an aggressive tackle in the second half, and in the span of about 3 seconds, said enough to the ref to warrant a second yellow. Either he’s the fastest talker in the world, or the smile that he flashed rubbed official Domenico Celi the wrong way. Regardless, that was basically game set and match, and both Dabo and Zauri will now miss out on the match with Juve next week.

If you’re keeping track, these bookings were part of the 34 yellow and 9 red cards given out in yesterday’s Serie A schedule, which is unbelievable when you really think about it. Also, Lazio have now had 11 players sent off this season, which is a league high.

Shitty stat, but hey, at least we’re leading the league in something.

Forza

Elsewhere in Lazio Land, it seems there’s something brewing about the nationality of Mourad Meghni. It seems the Frenchman, of Algerian descent, has an opportunity to play with Algeria’s national team, as long as Fifa agrees to change the nationality on the player’s official file. No word on how the French feel about this, but seeing as how they’ve never called him up, and how he repeatedly fails to live up to occasional flashes of brilliance, I don’t see them having a problem with it.

Meanwhile, another politician weighed in on the stadium issue. Basically, he claims that it would be incredibly difficult to build stadiums for both Lazio and Rioma Merda, but if elected, he’ll consider anything. Essentially what this means is that he wants votes, and will say anything to get them. Once in office, or course, he’ll just say something like, “as I said in the past, it’s very difficult to get done.” Just another day then…

The highlights from yesterday’s shiftless and dispirited 1-0 loss to Catania: