Lazio vs Genoa

17 December 2021 · Serie A · 2021/22 · Referee Luca Pairetto

Full time 3 – 1

Half-time: 1–0

Pedro 36’
Francesco Acerbi 75’
Mattia Zaccagni 81’

Filippo Melegoni 86’

Match summary

Lazio won 3-1 at home to Genoa. Lazio led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Pedro put Lazio ahead in the 36th minute, set up by Felipe Anderson. In the second half, Francesco Acerbi made it 2-0 with a header in the 75th minute, set up by Luis Alberto, Mattia Zaccagni made it 3-0 in the 81st minute, set up by Luis Alberto, and Filippo Melegoni pulled one back to make it 3-1 in the 86th minute, set up by Andrea Cambiaso.

The chances backed that up: Lazio created 2.07 expected goals (xG) from 11 shots to Genoa's 0.17 from 4.

Match stats

11 Shots 4

5 Shots on Target 2

5 Corners 2

0 Yellow Cards 3

0 Red Cards 0

2.07 xG 0.17

2.07 Non-penalty xG 0.17

10 Deep Completions 4

Key events

Lazio Genoa

Kick-off

Pedro
Assist: Felipe Anderson

1-0

36’

Half-time1-0

Francesco Acerbi
Assist: Luis Alberto

2-0

75’

Mattia Zaccagni
Assist: Luis Alberto

3-0

81’

86’

Filippo Melegoni
Assist: Andrea Cambiaso

3-1

Full-time3-1

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Genoa

Johan Vásquez
Paolo Ghiglione
Manolo Portanova

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Lazio 2.07 xGGenoa 0.17 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Genoa attacking Lazio attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Thomas Strakosha	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Elseid Hysaj	DEF	66			0	0.00	0.36	2
Francesco Acerbi	DEF	90	1		1	0.47	0.00	0
Luiz Felipe	DEF	87			0	0.00	0.00	0
Adam Marusic	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic	MID	90			0	0.00	0.03	1
Danilo Cataldi	MID	77			0	0.00	0.11	1
Toma Basic	MID	66			0	0.00	0.00	0
Pedro	FWD	90	1		3	0.56	0.15	2
Felipe Anderson	FWD	87		1	0	0.00	0.49	3
Mattia Zaccagni	FWD	90	1		4	0.96	0.00	0
Stefan Radu	Sub	24			2	0.05	0.00	0
Luis Alberto	Sub	24		2	0	0.00	0.92	2
Lucas Leiva	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Patric	Sub	3			0	0.00	0.00	0
Vedat Muriqi	Sub	3			1	0.03	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Salvatore Sirigu	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Domenico Criscito	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Johan Vásquez	DEF	90			1	0.01	0.00	0
Zinho Vanheusden	DEF	49			0	0.00	0.00	0
Paolo Ghiglione	MID	63			0	0.00	0.00	0
Andrea Cambiaso	MID	90		1	0	0.00	0.09	1
Milan Badelj	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Manolo Portanova	MID	85			0	0.00	0.03	1
Stefano Sturaro	MID	49			0	0.00	0.00	0
Mattia Destro	FWD	90			0	0.00	0.04	1
Goran Pandev	FWD	63			1	0.04	0.00	0
Hernani	Sub	41			0	0.00	0.00	0
Davide Biraschi	Sub	41			1	0.03	0.00	0
Caleb Ekuban	Sub	27			0	0.00	0.00	0
Stefano Sabelli	Sub	27			0	0.00	0.00	0
Filippo Melegoni	Sub	5	1		1	0.09	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Lazio win 60% Avg odds 1.61

Draw 24% Avg odds 3.97

Genoa win 16% Avg odds 5.90

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Lazio L L D W L

Genoa L D L L L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Lazio 4-3 Genoa, 02 May 21 Next meeting: Genoa 1-4 Lazio, 10 Apr 22 All Lazio vs Genoa meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.