2007–08 S.S. Lazio season

Lazio

2007–08 season
Chairman	Claudio Lotito
Owner	Claudio Lotito
Manager	Delio Rossi
Serie A	12th
Coppa Italia	Semi-finals
UEFA Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Goran Pandev, Tommaso Rocchi (14) All: Goran Pandev (20)
Highest home attendance	49,284 vs Roma
Lowest home attendance	14,891 vs Napoli
Average home league attendance	21,485
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

During the 2007–08 football season, Società Sportiva Lazio played its 65th Serie A season since the club's existence.

The season was not one to remember, as it slipped back from third in Serie A 2006–07 back to an extremely disappointing 12th position in the table. Hopes of a respectable performance in the Champions League disappeared when the squad proved not to have sufficient quality to match Real Madrid, Werder Bremen and Olympiacos.

Lazio's season was most remembered for club supporter and professional DJ Gabriele Sandri being shot to death in an accident, where Lazio and Juventus supporters had a quarry, resulting in the police intervening, killing Sandri, who allegedly had not anything with the quarrel to do.

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Delio Rossi
Assistant coach	Fedele Limone
Goalkeeping coach	Adalberto Grigioni
Fitness coaches	Valter Vio Adriano Bianchini
Club doctors	Roberto Bianchini Stefano Salvatori

Last updated: May 13, 2008
Source: S.S Lazio Staff

Other information

President	Claudio Lotito
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Stadio Olimpico (82, 307 / 105m x 68m)

Source: Stadio Olimpico article: May 13, 2008

Squad

First team

As of 2008-02-08^[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Tommaso Berni 2 DF Ştefan Radu (on loan from Dinamo Bucharest) 3 DF Aleksandar Kolarov 4 MF Fabio Firmani 5 MF Massimo Mutarelli 6 MF Ousmane Dabo 7 DF David Rozehnal (on loan from Newcastle United) 8 DF Luciano Zauri (captain) 9 FW Rolando Bianchi (on loan from Manchester City) 10 MF Roberto Baronio 11 MF Stefano Mauri 13 DF Sebastiano Siviglia 14 GK Marco Ballotta 15 DF Mobido Diakité

No. Position Player 17 FW Igli Tare 18 FW Tommaso Rocchi (vice-captain) 19 FW Goran Pandev 21 FW Fabio Vignaroli 22 DF Ivan Artipoli 23 MF Mourad Meghni 24 MF Cristian Ledesma 25 DF Emílson Sánchez Cribari 26 MF Gaby Mudingayi 29 DF Lorenzo De Silvestri 32 GK Fernando Muslera 68 MF Christian Manfredini 81 FW Simone Del Nero 85 MF Valon Behrami

Double passports

• Fernando Muslera
• Igli Tare
• Mourad Meghni
• Emílson Sánchez Cribari
• Christian Manfredini
• Valon Behrami

Non-EU players

• Aleksandar Kolarov
• Cristian Ledesma
• Goran Pandev

Competitions summary

Overall

Competition	Started Round	Final Position	Final Round	First Match	Last Match
Serie A	Round 1	12th	Round 38	August 25, 2007	May 18, 2008
Coppa Italia	Round of 16	Eliminated	Semifinals	December 19, 2007	May 8, 2008
UEFA Champions League	Third Qualifying Round	Eliminated	Group Stage	September 18, 2007	December 11, 2008

Serie A

Matches

Lazio v Torino

1	Lazio	2–2	Torino
	Pandev  56' Rocchi  61'		Rosina  34' Vailatti  68'

Sampdoria v Lazio

2	Sampdoria	0–0	Lazio

Lazio v Empoli

3	Lazio	0–0	Empoli

Atalanta v Lazio

4	Atalanta	2–1	Lazio
	Langella  43' Zampagna  90+3'		Mutarelli  69'

Lazio v Cagliari

5	Lazio	3–1	Cagliari
	Rocchi  47', 84' Pandev  59'		Acquafresca  69'

Reggina v Lazio

6	Reggina	1–1	Lazio
	Cozza  8'		Kolarov  74'

Lazio v Milan

7	Lazio	1–5	Milan
	Mauri  23'		Ambrosini  16' Kaká  33' (pen.), 52' Gilardino  70', 81'

Livorno v Lazio

8	Livorno	0–1	Lazio
			Pandev  45+4'

Lazio v Udinese

9	Lazio	0–1	Udinese
			Gyan  78'

Roma v Lazio

10	Roma	3–2	Lazio
	Vučinić  19' Mancini  42' Perrotta  56'		Rocchi  12' Ledesma  70'

Lazio v Fiorentina

11	Lazio	0–1	Fiorentina
			Pazzini  19'

Lazio v Parma

12	Lazio	1–0	Parma
	Firmani  90'

Siena v Lazio

13	Siena	1–1	Lazio
	Maccarone  32'		Pandev  23'

Inter v Lazio

14	Inter	3–0	Lazio
	Ibrahimović  22' (pen.) Maicon  33' Suazo  55'

Lazio v Catania

15	Lazio	2–0	Catania
	Rocchi  8' Pandev  89'

Lazio v Juventus

16	Lazio	2–3	Juventus
	Pandev  36', 90+3'		Trezeguet  29' Del Piero  48', 70'

Palermo v Lazio

17	Palermo	2–2	Lazio
	F. Simplício  34' Amauri  46'		Firmani  59' Tare  81'

Lazio v Genoa

18	Lazio	1–2	Genoa
	Mauri  23'		Borriello  52' (pen.), 55'

Napoli v Lazio

19	Napoli	2–2	Lazio
	Hamšík  5', 90+4'		Ledesma  26' Pandev  31'

Torino v Lazio

20	Torino	0–0	Lazio

Lazio v Sampdoria

21	Lazio	2–1	Sampdoria
	Mauri  37' Rocchi  77'		Cassano  45+1'

Empoli v Lazio

22	Empoli	1–0	Lazio
	Vannucchi  7'

Lazio v Atalanta

23	Lazio	3–0	Atalanta
	Rocchi  26' (pen.), 88' (pen.) Pandev  56'

Cagliari v Lazio

24	Cagliari	1–0	Lazio
	Matri  89'

Lazio v Reggina

25	Lazio	1–0	Reggina
	Bianchi  45' (pen.)

Milan v Lazio

26	Milan	1–1	Lazio
	Oddo  66' (pen.)		Bianchi  54'

Lazio v Livorno

27	Lazio	2–0	Livorno
	Rocchi  15' Pandev  24'

Udinese v Lazio

28	Udinese	2–2	Lazio
	Ferronetti  56' Di Natale  86'		Rocchi  12' Ledesma  80'

Lazio v Roma

29	Lazio	3–2	Roma
	Pandev  43' Rocchi  57' (pen.) Behrami  90+2'		Taddei  31' Perrotta  62'

Fiorentina v Lazio

30	Fiorentina	1–0	Lazio
	Pazzini  77'

Lazio v Inter

31	Lazio	1–1	Inter
	Rocchi  59'		Crespo  11'

Parma v Lazio

32	Parma	2–2	Lazio
	Budan  17' Paci  43'		Pandev  35' Bianchi  38'

Lazio v Siena

33	Lazio	1–1	Siena
	Mutarelli  45+1'		Loria  88'

Catania v Lazio

34	Catania	1–0	Lazio
	Spinesi  34' (pen.)

Juventus v Lazio

35	Juventus	5–2	Lazio
	Chiellini  15', 88' Camoranesi  21' Del Piero  32' Trezeguet  33'		Bianchi  56' Siviglia  61'

Lazio v Palermo

36	Lazio	1–2	Palermo
	Pandev  25' (pen.)		Amauri  82', 90+2'

Genoa v Lazio

37	Genoa	0–2	Lazio
			Pandev  32' Rocchi  45+2'

Lazio v Napoli

38	Lazio	2–1	Napoli
	Rocchi  14' Firmani  71'		Domizzi  83'

Top Scorers

• Tommaso Rocchi 14 (3)
• Goran Pandev 14 (1)
• Rolando Bianchi 4 (1)
• Cristian Ledesma 3

Champions League

Third qualifying round

• Lazio-Dinamo Bucharest 1-1
• 0-1 Ionel Dănciulescu (22)
• 1-1 Massimo Mutarelli (54)
• Dinamo Bucharest-Lazio 1-3
• 1-0 Florin Bratu (27)
• 1-1 Tommaso Rocchi (47 pen)
• 1-2 Goran Pandev (53)
• 1-3 Tommaso Rocchi (66)

Group stage

• Olympiacos-Lazio 1-1
• 1-0 Luciano Galletti (65)
• 1-1 Luciano Zauri (77)
• Lazio-Real Madrid 2-2
• 0-1 Ruud van Nistelrooy (8)
• 1-1 Goran Pandev (32)
• 1-2 Ruud van Nistelrooy (61)
• 2-2 Goran Pandev (75)
• Werder Bremen-Lazio 2-1
• 1-0 Boubacar Sanogo (28)
• 2-0 Hugo Almeida (54)
• 2-1 Christian Manfredini (82)
• Lazio-Werder Bremen 2-1
• 1-0 Tommaso Rocchi (57)
• 2-0 Tommaso Rocchi (68)
• 2-1 Diego (88 pen)
• Lazio-Olympiacos 1-2
• 1-0 Goran Pandev (30)
• 1-1 Luciano Galletti (35)
• 1-2 Darko Kovačević (64)
• Real Madrid-Lazio 3-1
• 1-0 Júlio Baptista (13)
• 2-0 Raúl (15)
• 3-0 Robinho (36)
• 3-1 Goran Pandev (80)

References

General

Martucci, Maurizio (2008). 11 novembre 2007. L'uccisione di Gabriele Sandri una giornata buia della Repubblica (in Italian). Sovera Editore. ISBN 88-8124-787-9.

Specific

1. "Prima Squadra" (in Italian). SS Lazio. Archived from the original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2008-02-01.