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Lazio beat 10-man Sassuolo 6-2 to go top of Serie A

Lazio won 6-2 at Sassuolo on 27 October, with two penalties saved and a Sassuolo red card, to move provisionally top of Serie A. Coverage differs on who scored Sassuolo's first goal.

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Updated (version 2). Rewritten with the latest reporting.

Image: CNA
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The story, neutrally told

Mixed · 2Lazio beat Sassuolo 6-2 away on Tuesday 27 October and moved provisionally top of the Serie A table, keeping their unbeaten start to the season. Mixed · 2Gennaro Gattuso's side have eight wins from nine games and 25 points, three ahead of Inter Milan, who visit bottom club Venezia on Wednesday. Mixed · 2Kenneth Taylor put Lazio ahead in the second minute, and Sassuolo equalised soon after a lengthy VAR check. Gustav Isaksen and Romano Floriani Mussolini then scored quickly for Lazio.

Mixed · 2Sassuolo's Kristian Thorstvedt was sent off just after the half-hour mark for a foul on Mattia Zaccagni. Mixed · 2Sebastiano Esposito pulled a goal back for Sassuolo two minutes before halftime, and Zaccagni restored Lazio's two-goal lead in added time with a free header from Isaksen's cross. Mixed · 2After the interval Stefano Turati saved a weak penalty from Zaccagni, awarded for Simone Cinquegrano's handball, and later saved another from Davide Frattesi, awarded for a foul by Duje Caleta-Car on Isaksen.

Mixed · 2Tijjani Noslin scored twice from distance, the second completing the scoring, as the coverage says Lazio look like real title contenders. Mixed · 2The accounts differ on Sassuolo's first goal: CNA's fuller report says it was a Josip Sutalo own-goal, while the Reuters copy carried by Arab News credits Thorstvedt with the equaliser. Centre · 1Gattuso said the team should not look at the standings, as many of them are not used to it, and must work seriously and "at a thousand miles per hour".

Centre · 1In other matches, Roma beat Cagliari 4-2 at the Stadio Olimpico, with Rodrigo Mora and Donyell Malen scoring in the last five minutes, and Como won 3-1 at Torino with three goals in the last 10 minutes. Roma are third, one point behind Inter and one point ahead of Como.

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Framing
CNA runs a straight match report, with a longer version widening to Roma's and Como's results and a Gattuso quote.
Emphasis
Lazio's dominance, the title-contender angle, the other Serie A results.
Leaves out or plays down
Nothing significant; it is the fuller account.
Charged language
“crush”“roared into”
For example
“Lazio crush Sassuolo to go top, Roma and Como win late” — CNA

Right1 outlet

Framing
Arab News carries the Reuters match report, focused on the red card and two saved penalties.
Emphasis
The frantic game, the sending-off and the missed penalties.
Leaves out or plays down
It leaves out the other results and Gattuso's comments, and credits the first Sassuolo goal to Thorstvedt rather than an own-goal.
Charged language
“frantic game”“hammering”
For example
“in a frantic game where the hosts had a player sent off and the visitors had two penalties saved” — Arab News

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