Lazio earned an impressive 3-1 friendly victory over Bayer Leverkusen with a Ciro Immobile brace and Felipe Anderson on target.
Simone Inzaghi’s outfit hosted the Bundesliga side in their pre-season training camp at Grodig.
Immobile wasted a couple of huge early chances when he was sent clear by Felipe Anderson forcing defensive errors, but the Italian made up for it eventually.
He broke the deadlock on 19 minutes by skipping round Berndt Leno to deposit into an empty net after Alessandro Murgia had knocked down a Luis Alberto pass.
Lazio earned an impressive 3-1 friendly victory over Bayer Leverkusen with a Ciro Immobile brace and Felipe Anderson on target.
Simone Inzaghi’s outfit hosted the Bundesliga side in their pre-season training camp at Grodig.
Immobile wasted a couple of huge early chances when he was sent clear by Felipe Anderson forcing defensive errors, but the Italian made up for it eventually.
He broke the deadlock on 19 minutes by skipping round Berndt Leno to deposit into an empty net after Alessandro Murgia had knocked down a Luis Alberto pass.
Leno was forced into action on Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and before the break Felipe Anderson again won back possession to sprint at the goal, this time completing a give-and-go with Immobile to leave Sven Bender totally stranded.
Leon Bailey was one of many substitutes in the second half and immediately forced a tough save out of Thomas Strakosha, while Volland hit the bar.
However, Immobile completed his brace and put Lazio 3-0 up with a wonderful goal, combining with Felipe Anderson before curling an unstoppable strike into the top corner from the edge of the box.
There were some concerns for Felipe Anderson, who went off with a muscular problem.
Lucas Leiva made a good impression, but should’ve scored when set up by Keita Balde Diao for a counter-attack.
Bayer Leverkusen got a consolation goal in stoppages thanks to Bailey sprinting forward and rolling across for Vladlen Yurchenko.
Lazio 3-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Immobile 19, 56 (L), Felipe Anderson 41 (L), Yurchenko 91 (BL)
Lazio: Strakosha; Bastos (Wallace 64), De Vrij (Luiz Felipe 66), Hoedt (Radu 64); Basta (Marusic 64), Murgia (Parolo 64), Luis Alberto (Lucas Leiva 64), Milinkovic-Savic (Di Gennaro 64), Lulic (Patric 64); Felipe Anderson (Palombi 65), Immobile (Keita 64)
Bayer Leverkusen: Leno; Henrichs (Kohr 46), Tah (Dragovic 46), S Bender (Ramalho 46), Wendell; L Bender (Bellarabi 46), Kampl (Baumgartlinger 46), Mehmedi (Yurchenko 46), Brandt (Bailey 46); Volland, Havertz (Pohjanpalo 46)