lazio close the door on galatasaray published: thursday 25 february 2016, 20.52cet lazio 3-1 galatasaray (agg: 4-2) marco parolo's header heralded a flurry of second-half goals, miroslav klose's finish ultimately leaving the visitors with too much to do.
marco parolo and felipe anderson score in three second-half minutes for hosts yasin öztekin responds within seconds for lively visitors substitute miroslav klose restores two-goal lead with neatly worked third apply for tickets for the uefa europa league final at basel's st. jakob-park the round of 16 draw takes place on friday, streamed live from 13.00cet
a flurry of goals around the hour mark favoured lazio, as they forged on to complete a comfortable uefa europa league round of 32 second-leg win against galatasaray.
fortified by an away goal following the 1-1 draw in the first leg in ıstanbul, lazio might have put the tie beyond their guests early on. sergej milinković-savić headed straight at fernando muslera from a corner before muslera brushed lucas biglia's powerful drive over the bar at the end of a slow first period.
with heavy rain falling in rome, galatasaray showed more urgency in the second half, yet still went 2-0 behind in the space of three minutes, marco parolo's 59th-minute header from a biglia corner swiftly followed by a side-footed finish for felipe anderson after lazio slashed open the visitors' defence. cimbom rallied within seconds, though, yasin öztekin racing through to flick the ball inside federico marchetti's left-hand post.
hope was soon extinguished, however; sent on to torment a tiring defence, substitute miroslav klose had already gone close once before ştefan radu's pass invited him to plant the ball low past muslera.