Simone Inzaghi believes Lazio deserved a penalty and “didn’t like the refereeing, but the fact remains we failed to score” against Sevilla.
They had already lost the first leg 1-0 on home turf, but were beaten 2-0 at the Sanchez Pizjuan with both teams down to 10 men.
“We put in a strong performance, but not scoring a goal over two legs means you are going out,” confessed the Coach on Lazio Style Channel.
Simone Inzaghi believes Lazio deserved a penalty and “didn’t like the refereeing, but the fact remains we failed to score” against Sevilla.
They had already lost the first leg 1-0 on home turf, but were beaten 2-0 at the Sanchez Pizjuan with both teams down to 10 men.
“We put in a strong performance, but not scoring a goal over two legs means you are going out,” confessed the Coach on Lazio Style Channel.
“There are regrets, we created a great deal over both games, but above all today. We should’ve opened up the tie again with an away goal and then pour forward in the last 25 minutes.
“We’re disappointed at the exit, we should’ve done better at turning the incidents in our favour. Obviously, before the game we didn’t intend to use Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Ciro Immobile for the whole 90 minutes, but Ciro managed to stay for the whole match.”
English referee Anthony Taylor caused controversy with an early Senad Lulic penalty appeal rejected and Adam Marusic rather harshly sent off.
“I don’t want to seek alibis, but I did see the footage back and it was a penalty on Lulic. The Marusic red card was over the top. I didn’t like the refereeing in either of the two legs, but the fact remains we were still unable to score.”
Lazio have the weekend off from Serie A so they can prepare for the Coppa Italia semi-final with Milan.
“The Coppa Italia is our objective. We’ve got to take the right approach and hopefully we can recover a few injured players in defence.”