They\u2019re managing it again this time. They manage to dirty even the derby, to turn the Capital\u2019s most heartfelt match into yet another unworthy farce signed by a club that continues to have a relationship with the Lazio people made of distance, arrogance and silence. Tomorrow at 12 Roma-Lazio kicks off, or rather: what was supposed to be the Monday derby, then the derby maybe to be postponed, then the derby confirmed at noon, in a grotesque comedy that perfectly captures the level of improvisation and weakness surrounding our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For days there was talk of moving it to Monday, as if the derby could become an office file to be postponed, moved, rescheduled according to convenience and pressure of the moment. Then instead no: everyone stop, everyone be good, it stays at 12. A final decision that leaves behind only chaos, nervousness and the usual feeling: Lazio, when it comes to demanding respect, never carries enough weight. And, as always, the Lazio people pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A farce built on top of the derby<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This derby is already off to a dreadful start. Not because of the pitch, not because of the opponent, not because of the table. It\u2019s off to a dreadful start because of everything that\u2019s been built around it. First the rumours, then the half-confirmations, then the U-turns, then the final decision. It almost feels like people can do anything around Lazio because someone will always bow their head and take it home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so here we are: derby at 12, in a poisoned atmosphere, with a fanbase split by anger and with a club that has once again shown all its inability to protect the symbolic value of this fixture. Because the derby is not just ninety minutes. The derby is dignity, belonging, respect. And on all three fronts the club side of Lazio keeps losing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarri, the refusal and the signal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the middle of this circus is also Sarri\u2019s position, who according to reports didn\u2019t even want to turn up for this organised performance. And honestly it\u2019s hard to blame him. Because when a stage show like this is built around a match of this kind, when everything becomes negotiation, postponement, hypothesis, pressure and confusion, then it\u2019s normal that even the person in charge of the team sends signals of exasperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Sarri really thought about not showing up, then that gesture \u2014 even just evoked \u2014 perfectly tells the level of exasperation in the air. It\u2019s not a whim. It\u2019s the symptom of an environment pushed to the limit, worn down by those who should guarantee order and instead only produce disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A real emergency, not an excuse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there\u2019s the pitch, and Lazio arrive there with bare bones. Not as a figure of speech: men cut down, rotations cut down, normality cut down. Motta out, Zaccagni out, and that alone would be enough to understand the state the team is in for a match that, in the eyes of the city, is worth a season on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the biggest paradox is another: Furlanetto starts. Not because someone gradually guided him along a technical path, but because the emergency has devoured everything. He finds himself playing the derby after his last match dates back to 2024. A story that seems written on purpose to make this derby even more absurd, even more twisted, even further from any normal logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet the derby also does this: it throws in men, fears, opportunities and condemnations. For Furlanetto it could be madness or a page to remember forever. In between there is nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The empty Curva Nord: the heaviest message<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest story, however, will be in the stands. Or rather: in the emptiness. Because the Lazio Curva will be empty. The organised support has decided not to enter, in protest against the club. And this is the most brutal picture of the Sunday that awaits the Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A derby without Curva Nord is not a normal derby. It\u2019s an amputation. It\u2019s a wound. It\u2019s the signal that the breaking point was passed long ago. When those who have always brought voice, colour, anger, passion and identity decide to stay outside, it means the cup is truly full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The club should feel the weight of that emptiness on its shoulders. It should be ashamed, more than worried about its image. Because a deserted Lazio Curva in the derby is not an accident: it is a political and popular verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Romanisti want to destroy nothing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And here comes the tragicomic side of the matter. On the other side the usual proclamations can already be read: they want to \u201cdestroy\u201d everything, they want to create hell, they want to bury Lazio under the noise. It almost makes you smile. Destroy what, exactly? Nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because tomorrow they\u2019ll find a stadium without organised Lazio fans. An empty Curva. An absence that weighs more than any choreography. So yes, let them play the keyboard warmongers and the ones from the main stand: they\u2019ll mostly be facing the emptiness left by a sacred protest. More than a battle, it\u2019ll look like a performance against an absence. And maybe that\u2019s precisely the biggest and most humiliating paradox for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A derby that goes down in history anyway<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whatever happens, this derby will remain. If Lazio were to win, it would be an achievement born of emergency, chaos and institutional abandonment. If they were to lose, it would still remain the derby of definitive rupture, of the empty Curva, of total confusion, of embarrassing management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Either way it will go down in history. We don\u2019t know whether as a feat, a scandal, madness or a watershed. But it will. Because it\u2019s not every day that you arrive at a derby with the debate about postponement to Monday, the final confirmation at noon, a furious coach, half a patched-up team, Furlanetto thrust in by the emergency and Curva Nord empty in protest against the very club that should represent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Probable Lazio line-up<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lazio should line up with a forced eleven in several departments, precisely because of the absences and precarious physical conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Probable line-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furlanetto; Marusic, Gila, Provstgaard, Lu. Pellegrini; Basic, Rovella, Taylor; Cancellieri, Dia, Noslin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few head-to-head decisions are still to be assessed, especially based on physical durability and Sarri\u2019s choice between prudence and courage. But the general idea is this: a team called to grit its teeth, with no excuses, with few real alternatives and with several men forced to give more than they owe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow Lazio will have less voice in the stands, fewer men on the pitch and zero protection from above. But for that very reason, if there is still something to save, it\u2019s all there: in the shirt, in those who truly honour it and in those who, even by staying outside, are sending the strongest message of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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