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Florence (Italy) (AFP) – Atalanta returns to the path of victories and rises in the standings by beating 2-0 the host Empoli on Sunday in the twelfth stage of the Italian Football Championship, while Lazio falls at home against Salernitana 1-3.
In the previous phase, Atalanta suffered their first defeat of the season by falling at home to Lazio 0-2.
The Bergamo player raises the score to 27 points, five points behind leaders Napoli, but could give up second place if Milan win or draw the third after with host Turin, while Lazio drop to fourth place receiving the second defeat. only this season.
Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini admitted that he did not expect his team to start the season in the best way in their history (they had never won eight of their first 12 games), adding to “Sky Sports” Italy: “It’s nice to set up record. It was a good match, and it was a good match. It will be our best match technically. “
“Against Lazio we didn’t do well, so we had to play a good match and make a good result today.”
Hans Hatebor scored the first goal when Nigerian Ademola Lookman hit the ball from close range, hit the defense and hit the net in front of the Dutchman on the goal net, easily followed him into the net from close range (32) .
Lookman gets a penalty kick for Gasperini’s team after taking a free kick that touched Mattia Destro’s hand inside the area, but goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario parried his foot for the kick, which was kicked by the Dutch Ton Kompminers (42).
Lookman got his personal goal in the second half after taking a special skill break inside the box and bypassing two players and hitting a crawling ball in the net (59).
Colombian Duvan Sabata thought he had scored the third goal for the visitors minutes after coming in as a substitute when he followed Lockman’s cross into the net, but the Nigerian was offside (72).
Empoli suffered their fifth defeat of the season, with five draws and two wins, in twelfth place with 11 points.
Salernitana overturns the situation on Lazio
At the Olimpico della Capitale, Salernitana overturned the situation on Lazio, a guest, who closed the first half with a goal by Mattia Zacani on a through ball by Spaniard Luis Alberto (41).
But the guests returned to the match at the beginning of the second half thanks to former Lazio Antonio Candreva, who drew in the 51st minute after a pass from Pasquale Matsuki, and then the shock of coach Maurizio Sarri’s team was completed with the delay in the 68th minute. ‘with Federico Fazio on a corner kick before Salernitana established their first win against the capital club since November 1998 with a third goal scored by Senegalese substitute Boulaye Diaye after a counterattack (76).
With the first defeat in the last nine games at local and continental level, and the second only in “Serie A” after having suffered against leaders Napoli (1-2 also at home) on 3 September, Lazio’s equilibrium froze, who conceded three goals on Sunday after receiving only 5 goals in the previous 11 games, to 24 points, in fourth place, with a goal difference against Inter and eight behind leaders Napoli, while Salernitana raised the score to 16 points and became ninth.
And Udinese begins to move further and further away from the struggle for leadership, after having failed the fourth consecutive stage, with a goalless draw with the last guest, Cremonese.
After a series of six consecutive victories, marked by 4-0 by Roma and 3-1 by Inter, the results of the team of coach Andrea Sutil, who were satisfied with the draw in three of the last four phases, to the home defeat in last phase against Torino for 1-2 in a series It also included the exit from the second round of the cup competition at the hands of his host, Montaza (2-3).
Udinese raised the score to 22 points to eighth place in their best total after 12 games from the 2011-2012 season, when they collected 24 and finished the championship in third place, while Cremonese’s balance is 5 points per game. last place with no win score.
Fiorentina have achieved their first victory in the last five rounds, and have been killer at La Spezia 2-1 thanks to the goal scored in extremis by the Brazilian substitute Arthur Cabral, in a match completed by the host with ten players in the last eight minutes after the expulsion of the Greek Dimitris Nicolaou, during which the guests advanced to the 14 ‘cross of the Serbian Nikola Milinkovic, before the French equalized M’bala (35).
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