3-0. Roma beat Lazio with a rout in the capital derby

Rome, 20 Mar Roma won the capital's derby with a resounding 3-0, double by Englishman Tammy Abraham and a foul goal by Italian Lorenzo Pellegrini, against a Lazio who was not up to the task of fighting for European positions on this thirtieth day of Serie A. Rome and Lazio met at the Olympic Stadium in the most important match of the day. Both are fighting to be in European competitions next year and the derby could be decisive for that. Mourinho's team were up to the match and the circumstances, with even less rest after Thursday's Conference League match, while Lazio, rested since last Monday, became small and could not stop the onslaught of the 'loba'. The goal festival began soon. Almost with the PA system naming the players, in the first minute of the match, Abraham opened the can by pushing a fumble, at an empty door in the small area, at the exit of a corner that crashed on the crossbar and knocked Albanian goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha out of place. The 'giallorrosi' continued with an initial plan and gave the ball to Lazio, who moved it without generating danger, to get out quickly against it. And it worked, those of Mourinho, with the fans overturned, took advantage of every quick start to generate danger on the 'laziali' door. Just at the halfway point of the first half, a good start of the local players at the Olympic Stadium in Rome that both entities share, ended with Abraham's second. The Briton finished off the good center of Dutch Rick Karsdop without a mark to sign his 15th goal in Serie A, with which he equals the Argentine Giovanni Simeone of Hellas Verona - who missed from eleven meters against Empoli today - as the third top scorer in the league. The brilliant first half for Roma ended with a direct foul goal, Pellegrini. The midfielder found the right squad of the goal from a complicated position with a big hit and left the match sentenced on the way to the locker room. Lazio jumped more involved in the second half, with its Italian captain Ciro Immobile, in a personal fight with Serbian Dusan Vlahovic to become the 'cappocannonieri' of the domestic championship, taking the reins of the team. But the clearest was, again, for an unleashed Abraham, who wasted a heads-up to make the 4-0. Lazio dominated the second half but the defense of Roma solved with great maturity and solidity the attempts of the 'biancocelestes'. Roma are in charge of the capital and with this victory they snatch fifth place, in the Europa League, from Lazio, which falls to sixth place, in the Conference League, with an eye on the Atalanta-Bologna that closes the day, as a victory for the Bergamo team leaves Sarri's out of European positions with eight rounds left before the final of the league. CHIEF tfc/jl