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04/22 17:11 CDT Motta saves 4 penalties in shootout win over Atalanta as Lazio
reaches Italian Cup final
Motta saves 4 penalties in shootout win over Atalanta as Lazio reaches Italian
Cup final
BERGAMO, Italy (AP) --- Lazio's 21-year-old goalkeeper Edoardo Motta saved four
consecutive spot kicks as the Roman club beat Atalanta in a penalty shootout on
Wednesday to reach the Italian Cup final.
The score was 1-1 after extra time. The first leg ended 2-2.
Motta --- who joined Lazio in January --- stopped shots from Gianluca Scamacca,
Davide Zappacosta, Mario Pasalic and Charles De Ketelaere as Lazio won the
shootout 2-1 with Gustav Isaksen and Kenneth Taylor converting for the visitors.
Lazio will face Serie A leader Inter Milan in the May 13 final.
Inter came back from two goals down for a 3-2 victory over Como on Tuesday
after a 0-0 first leg.
Alessio Romagnoli and Pasalic traded goals in the final minutes of regulation.
Motta then pushed a header from Scamacca off the post in stoppage time.
Giacomo Raspadori thought he had won it for Atalanta in the first extra time
period but his headed goal was waved off by the VAR for offside.
Ederson also had a goal for Atalanta chalked off on the hour after a lengthy
VAR check that determined there was a foul on the Lazio goalkeeper.
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