Venezia FC sink to fifth straight defeat against Lazio

Venezia FC fell to a fifth consecutive league defeat on Saturday 19 September, losing 0-2 at home to Lazio. The result leaves the club bottom of Serie A on 0 points from 5 games, the only side in the division yet to register a single point.

The numbers are unforgiving. Venezia FC have scored 4 and conceded 13, a goal difference of -9. Their form reads LLLLL. At home they have lost all 3; away from it, both of their 2 matches have also ended in defeat. No draws. No wins. Nothing.

Can a team with 5 losses from 5 survive? On this evidence, the question answers itself.

The home defeat came during matchday 5, and the next fixture offers little relief. Venezia FC travel to face Atalanta on Monday 12 October for matchday 6, still searching for a first point of the campaign.

Context from elsewhere in the table does not flatter them. Roma lead the way on 13 points with a goal difference of +11, level on points with Inter and Lazio, who sit second and third respectively. Lazio were the opponents who inflicted this latest loss. Cagliari have 12, Milan have 11 and Frosinone have 10 — all of them already comfortably clear of the bottom side.

At the other end of the scoring charts, Donyell Malen of Roma leads with 6 goals, ahead of Gustavo Varela of Monza and Antonio Raimondo of Frosinone on 4 each, with Lautaro Martínez of Inter also on 4. Davide Frattesi of Lazio has 3.

Venezia FC have 4 goals across 5 matches. That is the whole problem in one line.

Atalanta await on Monday 12 October. The club has two weeks to find something it has not shown once this season: resistance.