Milinkovic-Savic, Immobile fire Lazio third, Juve snowed off

CIRO IMMOBILE and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic continued their goal scoring sprees to lift Lazio into third in Serie A with a 3-0 win over Sassuolo yesterday.

Both sides finished a bad-tempered clash with 10 men as Serb Milinkovic-Savic scored a brace, opening the score with a curler after seven minutes and adding a second after the break to bring his tally to 11 goals this season.

Immobile stepped up to slot home a penalty after half an hour to give him six goals in Lazio’s last three games – 32 this season and a league leading 23 in Serie A.

“I’m sure he’ll win the Golden Boot, he deserves it for how he works every day,” said coach Simone Inzaghi of Immobile.

“The important thing is that we continue to perform like today. We had played three games in a week, now we have three more. We have little time to recover, but when you have goals (the) fatigue in your head disappears faster.”

The win saw Lazio overtake Inter Milan, who had moved third with a 2-0 win over bottom club Benevento in the San Siro on Saturday, and drop to fourth.

Yesterday’s Serie A game between champions Juventus and Atalanta in Turin was postponed because of heavy snow in northern Italy.

Six-time defending champions Juventus are a point behind leaders Napoli who are in turn 14 points ahead of Lazio.