Lazio beat 10-man Real Sociedad 3-1 at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Thursday night to clinch their place in the Europa League top eight with a match to spare. Mario Gila, Mattia Zaccagni and Taty Castellanos scored for the Roman side in the first half.

Real Sociedad are not yet assured of their place in the Europa League knockout stages, as they were to a damaging 3-1 defeat against Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico.Imanol Alguacil named his strongest

Join us for the penultimate Europa League opening phase games, as Roma visit AZ Alkmaar and Lazio host Real Sociedad hoping to guarantee a top eight finish.

Lazio finished top of the Europa League group stage despite a 1-0 defeat at Sporting Braga on Thursday as the Portuguese side failed to secure a playoff spot. Braga opened the scoring in the sixth minute when Ricardo Horta fired into the bottom corner from Victor Gomez's cross.

Lazio suffered an unlucky and ultimately irrelevant defeat to SC Braga, as they still topped the Europa League table in this opening phase.The Aquile were the only side already guaranteed a place in