Lazio strengthened their grip on second place in Serie A with Saturday\u2019s impressive 2-1 win over Juventus.<\/p>\n
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Mattia Zaccagni struck the goals which sank Juve and gave Maurizio Sarri\u2019s team a great chance of reaching the Champions League next season.<\/span><\/p>\n Lazio are five points ahead of Roma in third and most importantly seven in front of Inter Milan, who have been knocked out of the top four after drawing 1-1 at Salernitana, the only point they have collected from their last four matches.<\/span><\/p>\n Italian winger Zaccagni was a menace all night and ended a superb team move by sweeping home his 10th goal of the season from Luis Alberto\u2019s wonderfully disguised flick.<\/span><\/p>\n Zaccagni had set up Milinkovic-Savic\u2019s 38th-minute opener, which was cancelled out almost immediately by Adrien Rabiot\u2019s bundled leveller, and also had a goal ruled out for offside just after putting Lazio ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n The hosts\u2019 win is also great news for Napoli, whose huge league has been cut back to 16 points but now no longer have to worry about seventh-placed Juve.<\/span><\/p>\n The Turin giants, who pushed for a second equaliser are hoping to have a 15-point penalty for illicit transfer activity revoked later this month but even if they succeed they would only be a point ahead of Lazio.<\/span><\/p>\n Massimiliano Allegri\u2019s side face Sporting Lisbon in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday with their hopes of making Europe through the league dented.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lazio strengthened their grip on second place in Serie A with Saturday\u2019s impressive 2-1 win over Juventus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6196,6833,1451],"class_list":["post-13169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-juventus-fc","tag-lazio","tag-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13171,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions\/13171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}