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08 December 2020 Lazio drew 2-2 at the Olimpico with the Belgians of Bruges and even if with some thrills too much advance to the Champions League round of 16 as second in the group behind Borussia Dortmund.
A fundamental match for the Biancocelesti, who have two out of three results available to access the knockout stages of the Champions League.
Bruges can only win.
Inzaghi finds Correa next to Immobile, Reina confirmed between the posts.
Patric is missing in defense: Hoedt is in the trio with Luiz Felipe and Acerbi.
In midfield Milinkovic-Leiva-Luis Alberto.
Excellent biancoceleste start.
At 12 'after a shot by Luis Alberto that Mignolet cannot hold back Correa pounces on the ball for the tap-in and is 1-0.
But the Belgians are not watching and three minutes after a great shot by Lang which Reina opposes without holding the ball, Vormer arrives first on the rebound and kicks in the goal and scores the equal goal.
At 19 'great left from outside De Ketelaere, the ball passes not far from the post to Reina's right, then again blaze Lazio: on 26' Mata knocks down Immobile in the area and the same bomber scores the 2-1 goal. the third Italian player to score in all his first four appearances of the season in a single Champions League edition, after Del Piero and Inzaghi.
In the final phase of the first half, Bruges complicates their lives: at 34 'Sobol, already booked, Lazzari lands and is pardoned but at the second entrataccia always on Lazzari he is sent off.
We go to rest with the Biancocelesti ahead and with the extra man.
At the beginning of the resumption of torrential rain on the Olimpico, Lazio controls the game with authority.
At 49 'Correa very close to scoring.
Milinkovic serves him in the area, the Argentine looks for the diagonal from the right and touches the far post.
At 55 'Marusic tries, but Mignolet is well placed.
Around 70 'the Belgians stubbornly try to get under, thus exposing themselves to dangerous Lazio restarts.
At 75 'Inzaghi gives the rest to Immobile, Leiva and Luis Alberto taken over by Caicedo, Escalante and Akpa Akpro but a minute after the insistence of Bruges is rewarded: on a cross from the right Vanaken enters and heads into the net, is 2 -2.
There is the feeling that Lazio could have closed it earlier, saving themselves some final patema too much and in the 92nd minute they even risk insult: Brugge's insistent action with De Ketelaere who from a tight angle on the left hits a sensational crossbar.
Belgians very close to the qualifying goal but the result holds up and the point is enough for the Biancocelesti.