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Sampdoria manager Claudio Ranieri has said he'll eat his players alive with some "oil, salt and pepper" after they suffered a 5-1 humiliation away to in-form Lazio on Saturday.
Ciro Immobile scored a hat-trick in Rome to increase his Serie A goal tally to 23 this season, and Karol Linetty snatched a consolation before Julian Chabot was sent off for the visitors late on.
Ranieri, 68, spoke to Sky Sport Italia (h/t Football Italia) after the game and was light-hearted enough to joke about how he would deal with his playing staff following such a one-sided defeat:
“I’ll put some oil, salt and pepper on this evening and eat them alive.