2001–02 S.S. Lazio season

Lazio

2001–02 season

Chairman

Sergio Cragnotti

Manager

Dino Zoff
Alberto Zaccheroni

Serie A

6th

Coppa Italia

Quarter-finals

UEFA Champions League

First group stage

Top goalscorer

League:
Hernán Crespo (13)
All:
Hernán Crespo (20)

Home colours

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Società Sportiva Lazio had a major setback during the 2001–02 season, in which financial turmoil started to unfold, prompting sales and rumoured exits of several key players.

Season

In the build-up to the season, cash-stripped owner Sergio Cragnotti had sold Juan Sebastián Verón to Manchester United, as well as Pavel Nedvěd and Marcelo Salas to Juventus. Gaizka Mendieta arrived from Valencia expected to replace Nedvěd, while Stefano Fiore and Giuliano Giannichedda were signed from Udinese. Fiore was intended as a replacement for Verón, while Giannichedda was meant to become a squad-player, offering coach Dino Zoff further options on the central midfield. Also Claudio López finally was fit for fight following a long injury lay-off following the privous year's €35 million transfer from Valencia. As it was he came to be a replacement for Salas. His scoring tally compared to Salas in Juventus proved it was a shrewd decision, but with his price tag the expectations were higher.

Meanwhile, Manchester United's Dutch International Jaap Stam released an autobiography, in which he criticised manager Sir Alex Ferguson, which meant that he was put up for sale, and Lazio snapped him up for £16,5 million.

Zoff experimented with a 3-5-2 formation in the beginning of the season, but even though the defensive line including captain Alessandro Nesta and Stam came well to terms with the change, the midfield was lacking in creativity, rendering in a disappointing season from star signing Mendieta. In the season before, inspired strikes from Hernán Crespo had often saved Lazio from dropping unnecessary points, but the star striker failed to find the net, and due to those mishaps Zoff was eventually sacked.

New coach Alberto Zaccheroni came in and formed his usual 3-4-3 formation, which at least got the offensive play underway, with Crespo scoring two hat-tricks during the winter. However, Zaccheroni reckoned Crespo such important, that he fielded the Argentinian, even when he was unfit due to minor injury setbacks. A positive drugs test from Stam meant the season went from bad to worse, and in the end Lazio even failed to qualify for the Champions League, although it beat both eventual champions Juventus and title aspirants Internazionale in the showdown game, in which both Nesta and Crespo played their last matches for the club. That game ended 4–2, which assured Juventus's title.

The worst performance of the year was undoubtedly the derby against Roma in March, where Vincenzo Montella hit the back of the net four times as Roma romped to a 5–1 victory, and due to the humiliation the relationship between team captain and bandiera Nesta and Cragnotti worsened.

Squad

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Midfielders

Attackers

Serie A

Matches

1	Lazio	1_1	Piacenza
	C. López 17'		Matuzalém 77'

2	Perugia	0–0	Lazio

3	Lazio	0–0	Torino

4	Milan	2–0	Lazio
	F. Inzaghi 41' Laursen 56'

5	Lazio	0–0	Parma

6	Lazio	2–0	Atalanta
	C. López 42' Couto 71'

7	Venezia	0–0	Lazio

8	Roma	2–0	Lazio
	Delvecchio 49' Totti 50'

9	Lazio	5–0	Brescia
	Crespo 6, 32, 79' S. Inzaghi 39' Stanković 63'

10	Udinese	1–4	Lazio
	Caballero 78'		Crespo 54, 89' Liverani 74' C. López 84'

11	Lazio	1–0	Juventus
	Liverani 49'

12	Lecce	1–2	Lazio
	Cirillo 66'		Crespo 58' (pen.) S. Inzaghi 61'

13	Lazio	3–0	Fiorentina
	Poborský 12' Crespo 56' C. López 86'

14	Verona	3–1	Lazio
	Camoranesi 41' Colucci 66' Mutu 72'		Crespo 55'

15	Lazio	2–2	Bologna
	C. López 19, 34'		Cruz 41' Zaccardo 76'

16	Inter	0–0	Lazio

17	Piacenza	1–0	Lazio
	Hübner 69'

18	Lazio	5–0	Perugia
	S. Inzaghi 9' C. López 32' Fiore 52' Stanković 57' Negro 63'

19	Torino	1–0	Lazio
	Lucarelli 61'

20	Chievo	3–1	Lazio
	Marazzina 46' Corini 77', 88' (pen.)		C. López 7'

21	Lazio	1–1	Milan
	Stanković 20'		Shevchenko 90'

22	Parma	1–0	Lazio
	Di Vaio 67'

23	Lazio	1–1	Chievo
	S. Inzaghi 31'		Legrottaglie 85'

24	Atalanta	0–1	Lazio
			Poborský 78'

25	Lazio	4–2	Venezia
	Crespo 24', 45 + 3' (pen.), 74' Pancaro 45'		Bettarini 67' Maniero 73'

26	Lazio	1–5	Roma
	Stanković 59'		Montella 12, 29, 36, 63' Totti 71'

27	Brescia	1–1	Lazio
	Yllana 90' (pen.)		Crespo 56'

28	Lazio	2–0	Udinese
	Stanković 32' Fiore 79'

29	Juventus	1–1	Lazio
	Trezeguet 37'		C. López 24'

30	Lazio	1–0	Lecce
	Fiore 68'

31	Fiorentina	0–1	Lazio
			Castromán 24'

32	Lazio	5–4	Verona
	Stam 29' C. López 31' (pen.) Stanković 45, 51' Crespo 76'		Frick 9' Colucci 79' Cossato 88' Adaílton 90 + 4'

33	Bologna	2–0	Lazio
	Signori 50' Pecchia 88'

34	Lazio	4–2	Inter
	Poborský 19, 45' Simeone 55' S. Inzaghi 73'		Vieri 12' Di Biagio 24'

Top Scorers

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	14	11	9	50	37	+13	53	10	6	1	38	18	+20	4	5	8	12	19	−7

Champions League

Qualifying Stage

Copenhagen–Lazio 2-1
0-1 Hernán Crespo (56)
1-1 Jacob Laursen (73 pen)
2-1 Heine Fernandez (76)
Lazio–Copenhagen 4-1
1-0 Hernán Crespo (48)
2-0 Hernán Crespo (63)
3-0 Claudio López (65)
3-1 Sibusiso Zuma (81)
4-1 Stefano Fiore (90)

Group Stage

Galatasaray–Lazio 1-0
1-0 Ümit Karan (79)
Lazio–Nantes 1-3
0-1 Néstor Fabbri (3)
1-1 Fernando Couto (7)
1-2 Sylvain Armand (63)
1-3 Stéphane Ziani (86)
PSV Eindhoven–Lazio 1-0
1-0 Kevin Hofland (40)
Lazio–PSV Eindhoven 2-1
1-0 Stefano Fiore (39)
2-0 Claudio López (55 pen)
2-1 Mateja Kežman (56)
Lazio–Galatasaray 1-0
1-0 Dejan Stanković (76)
Nantes–Lazio 1-0
1-0 Pierre-Yves André (76)

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