Felipe Anderson made the most of a costly Roger Ibanez error to give Lazio the Derby della Capitale and leapfrog Roma into joint third place with Atalanta, despite missing their two best players.

This was not just a local showdown for pride, but also a head-to-head for third place. Paulo Dybala, Leonardo Spinazzola, Georginio Wijnaldum and Ebrima Darboe were out for the Giallorossi, but the Biancocelesti had Ciro Immobile injured and on the bench to be there with his teammates, and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic suspended.

Jose Mourinho had the bragging rights midweek, as his team got through to the Europa League play-offs, whereas Maurizio Sarri dropped into the Conference League.

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Tammy Abraham scuffed his finish at Ivan Provedel, while Chris Smalling struggled under pressure from Luis Alberto.

The breakthrough came when Pedro pressed Roger Ibanez inside the penalty area and managed to prod it across for Felipe Anderson to stroke past Rui Patricio one-on-one.

Nicolò Zaniolo saw his strike from the edge of the area take a deflection to loop up and bounce off the crossbar.

Pedro and Lorenzo Pellegrini had attempts from distance, while Smalling nodded a Pellegrini corner wide of the back post.

However, Pellegrini limped off with a muscular problem, then Zaniolo was prevented from turning in from six yards by some desperate Alessio Romagnoli defending and Provedel block.

Lazio almost doubled their lead on the counter with Matteo Cancellieri pulling back for Felipe Anderson, who stung Rui Patricio’s gloves from the edge of the area.

Stephan El Shaarawy went over in the box, but under minimal pressure from Cancellieri, while Abraham at full stretch couldn’t control a Nemanja Matic cross at the back post and Cristian Volpato’s pull-back was intercepted.

A brawl broke out on the touchline after Rui Patricio went to get the ball for a throw-in and Stefan Radu on the Lazio bench tried to slow him down.

Roma 0-1 Lazio

Felipe Anderson 29 (L)

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