Coppa Italia

But, I mean...

If we think that we lost against Mantua in Coppa Italia and then in Serie A, we were incredible.

Not only Alistair, I was reading, I don't remember who, who said the biggest thing is not only Lazio has 25 points, but of all this game, Lazio always deserved to win.

It's not that we stole the victory at the last second, et cetera, right? We always outplayed our opponent, which is incredible.

It's going to be a big test, yeah, December, January, the run of games we've got coming up over that period.

But we're already seeing that the strains of multiple competitions, the strains of European competition on other teams.

The Coppa Italia is going to come into play around the turn of the year too for those teams who have not done the genius tactical move Lazio did by getting eliminated early.

It's a test.

Roma kind of have that Spurs-y thing where they will just do the wrong thing at the worst possible time so I do I'm waiting for that to happen for Roma but while we're talking about Lazio let's very quickly touch on that they did win once again 2-1 at home beating Parma Kenneth Taylor and a Carlos own goal this does mean Lazio were briefly topped because they played before Inter this ride continues under Gattuso I think How do you feel about Lazio this season?

Well, I think it's a very respectable opinion that after that game against Mantua and the Coppa Italia, I think most people thought they were probably going to get very close to relegation.

I don't think it's crazy to say

that.

He took him, it was sort of at the end of Banter Era Milan.

Yeah.

When he was there, came to Napoli, finished seventh, but won Assacoppa Italia.

So that kind of evened it out a little bit.

With Juve, Milan, Atalanta and Lazio, it's a toss-up right now.

But like you said, I don't want to say anything definitive right now, but all I will say is Lazio only have the Coppa Italia and the Serie A.

And between the depth they have in defence, the depth they have in midfield, and also in attack, with one competition this can go this can this can go far um and also the goal they conceded was was more mandas was more of a like a chance a fluke more than anything else it wasn't a systemic problem the ball he miskicks the ball and it you know it's one of those things where you when you're playing football somebody miskicks it and it looks like a very lucky man that you're like there's no i want

There's one reason only, and I know this is really...

Known for his tall, slender frame and finishing top scorer for Serie B with Reggiana.

He'd also played alongside Maradona at Napoli and then really made his name at Torino, scoring two decisive goals in the 1993 Coppa Italia final win over Roma.

He went on to score 17 league goals the following season, third best in Serie A. Silenzi even earned himself a call-up to the Italian national team.

making an appearance in Naples against France in February of 1994.

Everyday life was difficult for him.

And an interdirector at the time, Piero Boschi, also said that Samer had reacted badly to being omitted from a Coppa Italia game and to Bertie Faulk's warning that players who were not regular starters risked losing their national team places.

And on a personal dimension, German reports at the time stated that Karin, Summer's future wife, felt uncomfortable in Italy and wanted to return to Germany.

Another German report states that Summer told his father that he was struggling with a coach while Karin did not want to live in Milan.

So what ultimately happened was Borussia Dortmund often offered him an escape route and on 22nd of January 1993, summer signed a contract three year contract or and a half years contract which meant it ran to 30th of june 96 they paid about eight and a half million deutsch marks which is the currency that existed at the time um allowing inter to i suppose recover roughly what they'd spent his final inter record was 12 competitive matches 11 in the city r1 in the coppa italia and four goals um he then became one of europe's finest players i mean Dortmund turned him into a libero, which is, as I said, a deeper position than they wanted to play him in Milan, but which gave him the freedom to step into midfield and attack.

He won back-to-back Bundesliga titles, won the Euro 96, the 96 Ballon d'Or, the 97 Champions League.

So, you know, he didn't leave Inter because he lacked quality.