Lazio vs Feyenoord match facts

Lazio will look to turn the table on Feyenoord as the UEFA Champions League Group E leaders visit Rome with only two points separating the top three in the section.

Feyenoord moved to the top with a 3-1 win in Rotterdam on Matchday 3, Santiago Gimenez marking his competition debut with two goals (31,74) either side of Ramiz Zerrouki's first-half strike (45+2); a Pedro Rodríguez penalty seven minutes from time was all Lazio could muster in response.

The Dutch champions have six points having kicked off their first group stage campaign in six seasons with a 2-0 win against their Scottish counterparts Celtic in Rotterdam, but that early momentum was stalled by a subsequent 3-2 loss at Atlético de Madrid in which they led twice.

Lazio are third on four points, one behind Atlético having rescued a dramatic point at home to the Spanish side on Matchday 1 with a last-gasp equaliser from goalkeeper Ivan Provedel before a 2-1 win at Celtic in which Pedro scored the decisive goal five minutes into added time.

The teams are meeting for the second season in succession; indeed, both had their 2022/23 European campaigns ended by clubs from their opponents' country.

Previous meetings 

Feyenoord wins 3
Lazio wins 1
Draws 1
Feyenoord goals 8
Lazio goals 6

The teams were paired together in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage, Lazio recording a 4-2 home win on Matchday 1. Goals from Luis Alberto (4), Felipe Anderson (15) and Matías Vecino (28, 63) put them 4-0 up before their visitors struck twice late on through substitute – and European debutant – Gimenez (69pen, 88).

Gimenez got the only goal in Rotterdam on Matchday 6 and that proved crucial in Feyenoord finishing top of the section with all four teams level on eight points; Lazio were third and moved into the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Lazio and Feyenoord had been drawn together just once previously in UEFA competition, in the 1999/2000 Champions League second group stage, when the Dutch side won 2-1 in Rome with a Jon Dahl Tomasson double and drew 0-0 in Rotterdam the following week. It was the Italian side who went through to the quarter-finals, however, topping the group as Feyenoord finished three points behind them in third place.

Form guide

Lazio

Record vs Dutch clubs: W3 D2 L6 F14 A17
Home record vs Dutch clubs: W2 D1 L2

Lazio were eliminated by AZ Alkmaar in last season's Europa Conference League round of 16, losing 2-1 both at home and away despite taking the lead in both games.

That ended Lazio's three-match unbeaten home run against Dutch visitors (W2 D1), since the 2-1 loss to Feyenoord in the first such game.

Home and away, Lazio's defeat of Feyenoord on Matchday 1 last season is their only victory in six games against Eredivisie sides (D1 L4).

Lazio are in the Champions League group stage for the first time since 2020/21, when they finished second in their section behind Borussia Dortmund and went out to another German club, Bayern München, in the round of 16 (1-4 h, 1-2 a).

This is the Rome club's seventh group appearance overall but only a second in the last 16 seasons.

Lazio took part in the Europa League in 2022/23, finishing third in Group F behind Feyenoord and Midtjylland – all four teams in the section, including eliminated Sturm Graz, ending on eight points – to move into the Europa Conference League. They edged out CFR Cluj in the knockout round play-offs (1-0 h, 0-0 a), but then lost 1-2 home and away against AZ Alkmaar in the last 16.

The home defeat by AZ last season ended Lazio's eight-match unbeaten European run in Rome (W4 D4).

The defeat in Rotterdam ended Lazio's eight-match unbeaten run in Champions League group stage matches overall (W3 D5).

Maurizio Sarri's side were second in Serie A last season, 16 points behind leaders Napoli. It was their highest league finish since claiming their second title in 1999/2000.

Feyenoord

Record vs Italian clubs: W8 D4 L8 F24 A29
Away record vs Italian clubs: W2 D1 L6

Feyenoord's 2022/23 European campaign was ended by Lazio's city rivals, Roma overturning a 1-0 first-leg loss in Rotterdam with a 4-1 extra-time victory at the Stadio Olimpico in the Europa League quarter-finals.

That made it three successive reverses in Italy, since a 1-1 draw at Roma in the 2014/15 Europa League round of 32 first leg (2-3 aggregate).

Seven of Feyenoord's eight defeats against Italian clubs, including the 2022 Europa Conference League final against Roma in Tirana (0-1), have been outside the Netherlands.

Feyenoord are in the Champions League group stage for the first time since making their fifth appearance in 2017/18.

A team coached by Giovanni van Bronckhorst finished bottom of their section six seasons ago, going down home and away against both Manchester City and Shakhtar Donetsk while also losing at Napoli, their sole success a 2-1 home win against the Italian side.

European champions in 1970, Feyenoord have never reached the Champions League knockout rounds, although they did make it as far as the second group stage in 1999/2000.

Runners-up to Roma in the first Europa Conference League final in 2021/22, Feyenoord's European campaign was also ended by the Italian side last season, in the Europa League quarter-finals (1-0 h, 1-4 a aet). They had finished first in Group F, with all four teams ending on eight points, before beating Shakhtar Donetsk 8-2 on aggregate in the round of 16, winning the second leg 7-1 at home.

Feyenoord are without a win in eight away European games (D3 L5), since a 3-1 victory at Slavia Praha in the 2021/22 Europa Conference League quarter-final second leg.

The Dutch club have lost their last six away games in the Champions League group stage; a 1-0 win at Newcastle on Matchday 2 in 2002/03 is their only success in their last 11 away fixtures (D2 L8) and one of only three in the Champions League proper (D5 L11).

Arne Slot's side finished seven points clear at the top of the 2022/23 Eredivisie, claiming Feyenoord's 16th league title and just a second since 1999.

Links and trivia

Has played in Italy:
Dávid Hancko (Fiorentina 2018/19)

Have played together:
Mattéo Guendouzi & Javairo Dilrosun (Hertha Berlin 2020/21)

International team-mates:
Daichi Kamada & Ayase Ueda (Japan)

Latest news

Lazio

Lazio suffered their fifth Serie A defeat of the season on Friday, going down 1-0 at Bologna. Four of those five losses have come away from home.

An added-time penalty by substitute Ciro Immobile allowed Lazio to beat Fiorentina 1-0 on 30 October.

It was Immobile's 199th goal for Lazio in his 309th appearance in all competitions.

Ten of Immobile's last 24 Serie A goals have come from the penalty spot.

It was only their third clean sheet in all competitions this season after the 2-0 win against Torino on 27 September and a 2-0 victory at Sassuolo on 21 October.

Lazio therefore won consecutive Serie A games without conceding for the first time since April.

The Matchday 3 defeat at Feyenoord and Friday's loss at Bologna are the only games in Lazio's last six in all competitions they have not won.

Lazio took only four points from their first five games in Serie A (W1 D1 L3) scoring five goals and conceding eight. That represented their worst start to a Serie A campaign since 2001/02, when they also had four points after five matches.

Adam Marušić was replaced early in the second half on Friday due to an ankle issue.

Defender Nicolò Casale has not played since Matchday 3 due to a right thigh injury.

On 2 October Luis Alberto extended his contract with Lazio until 2028.

On 1 November Lazio were drawn at home to Genoa in the Coppa Italia round of 16; the game will be played on 5 December.

Feyenoord

The Rotterdam club were 2-1 winners at RKC Waalwijk on Saturday, coming from behind to make it ten victories in 12 games in all competitions. Quinten Timber equalised with his first goal since 27 August before Bart Nieuwkoop's second-half winner, the summer signing's first strike for his new club.

Nieuwkoop's goal was his first in the Eredivisie on his 84th appearance.

Feyenoord's seven-game winning Eredivisie run had been ended by a 2-1 loss at Twente on 29 October.

Lutsharel Geertruida got Feyenoord's late consolation, his second goal in as many league games.

Santiago Giménez had scored in nine successive club games before drawing a blank at Twente, and missed a penalty on Saturday. He had managed 15 goals in that nine-match sequence, including two against Lazio on his UEFA Champions League debut.

Giménez, who completed a two-game suspension on Matchday 2, is the joint top scorer in the Dutch top flight this season with 13 goals.

Eighteen-year-old midfielder Antoni Milambo scored his first senior goal in a 4-0 home win against Vitesse on 21 October.

Giménez scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 win at Ajax that was completed on 27 September; he was the first Feyenoord player to score three times in a game against Ajax since John Guidetti in 2012.

The 4-0 final score was Feyenoord's biggest Eredivisie win in Amsterdam. They had never previously won by more than two goals away to Ajax in the competition.

Feyenoord made a slow start to the defence of their Eredivisie title, drawing their first two matches at home to Fortuna Sittard (0-0) and away at Rotterdam rivals Sparta (2-2).

They won their next seven league games, scoring 30 goals and conceding only four.

Feyenoord were defeated 1-0 by Dutch Cup winners PSV Eindhoven in the Johan Cruyff Schaal on 4 August.

Quilindschy Hartman marked his Netherlands debut with a goal in a 2-1 UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying defeat by France in Amsterdam on October 13 in the EURO 2024 qualifiers.

On the same evening, Dávid Hancko scored Slovakia's first goal in a 3-2 defeat away to Portugal.

First-choice keeper Justin Bijlow returned on 21 October having not played since 13 August due to a broken wrist.

Luka Ivanušec suffered an ankle injury on Matchday 1, making his comeback as a substitute at Twente.

Captain Gernot Trauner has missed Feyenoord's last five matches with a knee injury.

Yankuba Minteh suffered a hamstring injury against Vitesse and has not played since.

Hancko is the only player to have played every minute of Feyenoord's 15 games this season.