AS Roma vs Lazio prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2022-11-05 17:00.
The stakes are high between two top-four hopefuls coming into the 159th Serie A (SA) Derby della Capitale, with Roma holding the bragging rights after a 3-0 victory against Lazio back in March. As if that wasn’t enough, the Giallorossi pushed Lazio out of the top-four with their last-gasp 3-1 victory against Hellas Verona on Monday, which saw 18-year-old Cristian Volpato steal the show in the dying moments.
José Mourinho again delivered a tactical masterclass just a few days later as Roma beat Ludogorets 3-1 in their final UEFA Europa League group stage match to advance into the competition playoffs – a feat city rivals Lazio failed to achieve after their narrow 1-0 defeat at Feyenoord! This clash is unlikely to be as straightforward though, as Roma are yet to beat top-half opposition at home in SA this season having narrowly lost 1-0 here to Atalanta and Napoli.
Lazio’s 620 minute league run without conceding was brutally interrupted by Salernitana’s three goals inside 25 minutes last Sunday, as the Biancocelesti lost 3-1 despite opening the scoring for the ninth time across their last ten SA matches. Lazio were furious about Sergej Milinković-Savić receiving a yellow card which ruled him out of this clash, with Mattia Zaccagni stating referee Gianluca Manganiello “couldn’t wait to get that card out".
As if the tension before a fixture that produced 31 yellow cards across its last five editions needed to be increased, Maurizio Sarri taking a swipe at Roma’s Rick Karsdorp escaping punishment despite pushing a referee has certainly added fuel to the fire. Even without Sarri’s comments, this looks set to be a fiery encounter, with Roma vs Lazio seeing more red cards than any other fixture in three points per win SA era (35).
Players to watch: After being the protagonists of a bitter off-field dispute, Nicolò Zaniolo and Mattia Zaccagni will meet on the pitch for the first since May 2017. They both scored their team’s first goals last SA round, with Zaccagni already netting a joint-career high five top-flight goals this term.
Hot stat: Lazio are the only team yet to concede in the opening 30 minutes of a league match this season (GF 9).