Lazio can not beat Galatasaray and go to the sixteenth

Lazio failed this Thursday with Galatasaray at the Olímpico (0-0), so it was the Turkish team that finished first in group E and qualified for the eighth of the Europa League. On the other hand, the ‘laziale’, as seconds, will play the round of 32 against one of the teams from the Champions League.

Maurizio Sarri’s Lazio could not with the solidity shown by Galatasaray. Fatih Terim, coach of the Turkish team, took the game with his approach and knew how to adapt, with his substitutions, to each change that occurred in the match, to achieve this tie that took his team to the second round and sent the ‘laziale ‘at sixteenths.

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In a balanced and unspectacular first half, there was a very clear chance by side. Patrick van Aanholt crashed a ball off the post for Galatasaray. And for Lazio Immobile shot high.

Sarri’s men had one more chance in the second half. Another from Immobile, one from Luis Alberto. Very little for a team that needed to win to reach the eighth and get rid of those sixteenth against one of the teams from the Champions League, including Barcelona. Pedro, who can be measured with Barcelona, ​​his former team, in the round of 32, was replaced in the 63rd minute by Felipe Anderson.

Lazio de Sarri, 8th in the Serie A table, lacked ideas and tenacity to achieve their goal. The direct square to eighth went to Galatasaray. Marseille beat Lokomotiv Moscow 1-0 and are eliminated from the Europa League, but will play the Conference.