Ciro Immobile broke Lazio’s all-time Serie A scoring record on Monday, scoring the only goal in his team’s 1-0 win over struggling Venezia, taking them to fifth place. Captain Immobil, who had a goal for offside shortly after the break, broke a 58th-minute penalty to take his top-flight tally with Lazio to 144, one more than Italian goalscoring icon Silvio Piola. . Piola is Serie A’s all-time leading scorer with 274 goals in a 25-year career in which his greatest honor was the 1938 World Cup for his national team.
He played in Lazio in those nine years and scored a total of 149 times for the Roman club, another record broken at the end of the previous season by Immobile, who now finished 176 in all competitions after finishing 21st in the league-leading Lazio. scoring a goal. Season.
“I need to say thank you to the team, they are by my side in every match and every season, helping me beat every record,” Immobile told DAZN.
“Once you finish playing all you have is how people feel about you. I’m really proud of what I’m doing here, and I thank the fans who have really supported me since my first day here.”
Since Immobile joined Lazio in the summer of 2016, only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have scored more goals in Europe’s top five leagues – England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy – than the Italian international.
The 32-year-old’s winner was awarded in the evening to Lazio with a pre-match silence, another key captain in Pino Wilson, who led the club to their first league title in 1974 and aged 76 just a week earlier. died in
The goal was particularly lovely as it allowed Lazio to go above Atalanta and most importantly Roma ahead of Sunday’s capital city derby.
Maurizio Sarri’s side are two points ahead of their local rivals after a loss in the last eight matches.
“The week leading up to the derby I met a lot of Roma fans who tell me not to play!” Immobil joked.
Venezia meanwhile remain in the relegation zone, three points from safety after a third consecutive loss and a 16th-place finish in their first season in Serie A in nearly two decades.
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