Lazio Away 2000/2001

Lazio Away 2000/2001

Lazio wore this white away shirt in season 2000/2001. They were unable to defend their Serie A title won in 2000 after finishing third, but won the Supercoppa Italiana. On 30 October manager Sven-Goran Eriksson was appointed by Football Association as its new England manager from July 2001. After he left, the team collapsed to the 4th spot. On 7 January 2001 Eriksson left the club and Cragnotti appointed Dino Zoff as its new manager.

New stars
With new stars like Hernan Crespo, Karel Poborský and Dino Baggio Lazio tried to retain their title but they only managed to finish third in the league. However Hernan Crespo had a prolific season, scoring 28 goals for them in all competitions.

The biggest star, Pavel Nedvěd
Nedvěd made his league debut for Lazio on 7 September 1996 in a 1–0 away defeat against Bologna. He scored his first league goal for the club against Cagliari on 20 October 1996, finishing the 1996–97 season with seven goals. He became an integral part of the side, scoring four goals in three matches early in the 1997–98 season. The club had a 24-match unbeaten streak from November 1997 to April 1998, ending with a league match against Juventus in which Nedvěd was sent off.

That season, Lazio won the 1997–98 Coppa Italia and reached the final of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup. Nedvěd and Lazio began the 1998–99 season with a victory in the Supercoppa Italiana. Nedvěd scoring as the club defeated Juventus 2–1. He played a role in Lazio’s road to the last-ever Cup Winners’ Cup. Scoring against Lausanne in the first round and in both legs of Lazio’s 7–0 aggregate quarter-final victory over Panionios. In the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup Final, Nedvěd scored the decisive goal against Mallorca for Lazio’s 2–1 win. This proved to be the last goal of the tournament, which was later discontinued.

Nedvěd was one of the ten highest-paid footballers in the Italian league in 1999. He played in the 1999 UEFA Super Cup against Manchester United at the beginning of the season, where Lazio won 1-0. The club went on to win the Serie A title and Coppa Italia. Completing a domestic double in 2000 with Nedvěd’s help. In 2000, he won the Supercoppa with Lazio for a second time.

Nedvěd played UEFA Champions League football with Lazio. Ultimately scoring against Real Madrid in a 2–2 draw in the second group stage before the Italian side was eliminated. In Lazio’s final Champions League match of the season, Nedvěd was criticised by Leeds United manager David O’Leary for a challenge on Alan Maybury. Although the referee did not call a foul, he received a three-match suspension from European competitions from UEFA.

Despite Nedvěd’s signing a new four-year contract with Lazio in April 2001, the club tried to sell him and teammate Juan Sebastián Verón that summer. Finally triggering fan protests against club chairman Sergio Cragnotti. Lazio ultimately sold them to Juventus and Manchester United respectively.

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