He can no longer do without Pedro Marco Baroni. The Biancoceleste coach managed to revitalize the Spaniard after a very complicated season and now he never gives up. Even with Monza it will once again be the Spaniard’s turn to play from the start, this time as a right winger in a new trident with Dia and Zaccagni. A novelty for the biancoceleste attack which goes hand in hand with the choice to give up, at least from the start, the attacking midfielder opting for the midfield trio Vecino-Rovella-Guendouzi. After playing the whole match on Thursday and deciding it with a goal in added time, it seemed difficult to imagine Pedro starting again. No management of forces, no calculations for a player who at 37 seems to have truly found the philosopher’s stone like Harry Potter. Thanks to the work done in the summer and the centrality that Baroni gave him, making Pedro feel important again took him back in time.
Lazio, record-breaking Pedro: six goals on 10 November, only so good in 2013
You have to rewind the tape more than a decade to find a similar beginning of Pedro. You have to go back to the days of Barcelona to find at least six goals scored by the Spaniard since the start of the season at the beginning of November. It was the year 2013, Lazio had just returned from the Italian Cup won against Roma and Pedro was coming off a bitter elimination in the semi-final of the Champions League at the hands of champions Bayern with a 7-0 aggregate. A brace against Mallorca on matchday one, a hat-trick at Rayo Vallecano before the goal scored exactly eleven years ago on 10 November at Betis Seville. If we consider that this year Pedro has reached six goals before today, this start to the season is the best of the Spaniard’s career. Something incredible if you consider how Pedro ended last season with the clear feeling that he was now at the end of the race. Baroni, however, recovered it and now can no longer do without it.