Having the opportunity to win the Italian League, Lazio Focuses on entering the Champions League

DBasia.news – Lazio coach, Simone Inzaghi said that at present their only focus is on getting tickets to next season’s Champions League.

Currently, until the 29th week, Lazio is ranked second in the Serie A standings with 68 points. I Biancocelesti are four points behind leaders, Juventus.

With the remaining nine matches, opportunities for Lazio on the championship track are still open. Even so, Lazio coach, Simone Inzaghi admitted that his team are only focused on qualifying for the Champions League.

“We still need seven points to qualify for the Champions League,” Inzaghi said, as quoted by La Repubblica. “After we are mathematically safe, we will look at it game after game.”

Currently, Lazio are at a safe distance from AS Roma who are in fifth. They are 20 points ahead of the city rivals.

Looking back, Lazio has long been absent from the top level competition in European soil. In 2015-2016, they qualified for the qualification play-off phase, but had to be eliminated by Bayer Leverkusen. The last time Lazio performed in the group stage was in 2007-2008.

At that time, Lazio were also eliminated quickly by occupying the caretaker of Group C which at that time was inhabited by Olimpiakos, Real Madrid, and Werder Bremen.

While Lazio’s best achievements in the Champions League occurred 20 years ago, in 1999-2000. At that time Lazio was able to qualify until the quarter-finals. Lazio failed to head the semifinals after being eliminated by Valencia.