Vincenzo Italiano was frustrated following Fiorentina’s draining 4-0 loss to Lazio this evening.
The Viola started the match on the front foot in Florence but quickly fell 2-0 down following headers from Matias Vecino and Mattia Zaccagni, giving Lazio a comfortable advantage to defend. Despite Fiorentina’s best efforts, the Roman club’s defence remained solid and eventually Luis Alberto and Ciro Immobile netted late goals to secure the three points.
Speaking to Sky Sports Italia, Italiano first reacted to Fiorentina’s loss to Lazio.
“We started well again today. I only didn’t like the last ten minutes, but for the rest I think the team brought to the pitch what they had left us last game. We created a lot, in the first ten minutes we could have scored three goals.
“Lazio showed that they were stronger than us. Unfortunately we paid for our lack of concreteness, we did what we had to do but the result is a 0-4 which is a lie.”
He touched on the team’s issues in attack and the difficulty of facing the Biancocelesti.
“We lack incisiveness, concreteness and the hit that allows us to address the match as we did in Scotland. Lazio are Fiorentina’s black beast, we have changed a few situations compared to last year.
“I thought I had found the solution, but we are talking about a 0-4. Congratulations to our opponents who suffered our game for long stretches but came home with four goals scored.”
Finally, Italiano commented on where Fiorentina need to go next following their tiring defeat.
“Today was an important crossroads for us, we aimed to give consistency after the Conference League win. When you shoot 25 times on goal and create a lot, the coach can’t overturn everything, we can’t score goals and we lose games.
“Unfortunately we pay for what is a huge evil in a football team, not being able to score goals. We take the boos and the disappointment of our fans, last year we created a huge enthusiasm, but now going out amidst the booing leaves me with a huge bitterness and is a defeat for all of us.”
Fiorentina’s defeat leaves them 13th in the Serie A table after nine games, far off where Italiano and the squad hoped to be at this stage of the campaign.
Lazio’s win sees them tied Milan and Udinese in the league table, just three points behind league leaders Napoli.