Lazio v Parma: Aw!
By: Martha | May 20th, 2007
The match really didn’t go as it should have — Lazio were not only distracted by that whole last-home-game celebration thing, but also missing a bunch of first-team players through suspension and/or rest. It was a perfect time for Parma to stage a miracle, win their second away game of the season, and take a huge step closer to spending next season in Serie A. Instead, Guiseppi Rossi spent the entire game creating fantastic chances and then whacking the ball over the goal (though it got better in the second half, when he managed to hit the bar) while, at the other end, Luca Bucchi was miraculously saving everything Tommaso Rocchi (whose technique is quietly spectacular) threw at him in a desperate attempt to keep Parma in the game.
And, in the end, Bucci was successful and Parma pulled off a point and inched closer to survival. The coolest thing of the whole match, though, was the last five minutes, during which the retiring (and broken-fingered) Angelo Peruzzi — to the wild cheers of the Olimpico — took his place in the Lazio goal. He didn’t have to make any saves, but the backs occupied themselves by playing the ball back to him over and over, so the Lazio faithful could show him some love. The whole thing was just awesome: Not as operatic as Billy Costacurta’s Milan farewell yesterday, but a similarly classy goodbye to an equally classy player.
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I watched the end of the game and it was definately a classy move to put Peruzzi in at the end. I loved when they kept playing the ball back to him. It reminded me of that Simpson’s episode when soccer came to Springfield and the riot erupted in the stands as the midfielders kept passing the ball back and forth.
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