Lazio, Giovanni Martusciello debuts in Frosinone
Serie A

Lazio, Giovanni Martusciello debuts in Frosinone

Frosinone needs to move up the table after slipping to third from bottom. Lazio, under their new manager Giovanni Martusciello, visit the Stirpe

Frosinone v Lazio close the Saturday schedule of the 29th Serie A TIM matchday: the Ciociari, with one point earned in the last six matches, need to improve their performance to move out of the bottom three positions and restart their quest for survival. After the resignation of Maurizio Sarri, following three consecutive defeats against Fiorentina, AC Milan, and Udinese (in between also the loss against Bayern Munich, resulting in elimination from the Champions League), they have relied on Giovanni Martusciello to attempt a late surge for a European spot in the last ten matches of this Serie A TIM season.

DID YOU KNOW?

For the first time in Serie A this season, Frosinone will start a matchday in the bottom three positions of the table (18th place in this case). Furthermore, after the 0-1 defeat against Sassuolo last time out, I Ciociari could fail to score a goal in back-to-back league matches for the first time this season. Lazio have lost each of their last four games across all competitions and I Biancocelesti could record five defeats in a row for the first time since doing so between April and May 1985.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Lazio have lost none of their five matches against Frosinone in Serie A (W4 D1), conceding only once - in their Serie A history, only against Mantova, Reggiana, Sampierdarenese and Spezia (6 each) have I Biancocelesti played more games against without ever losing. Across the two matches between Frosinone and Lazio at the home of I Ciociari in Serie A, only one goal has been scored: netted by Felipe Caicedo on 4 February 2019.

PLAYERS

Stefano Turati is the goalkeeper with the highest negative differential between actual goals conceded (52) and Expected Goals on target conceded (40.2) in Serie A this season, conceding 11.8 goals more than expected based on the quality of shots he has faced. Felipe Anderson has been directly involved in more Serie A goals than any other Lazio player this season (9 – 3G 6A) whilst his next goal involvement will see him reach double figures for goals + assists in each of his last seven season in the Italian top-flight.

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: none Cautioned: Oyono, Soulè (Frosinone)

REFEREE

Rapuano (Bercigli-Garzelli), IV: Baroni, VAR: Abisso, AVAR: Di Paolo

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A TIM

Genoa-Frosinone (Saturday 30 March, 15:00 CET) Lazio-Juventus (Saturday 30 March, 18:00 CET) (Photo LaPresse)