Juventus’ setback against Benevento (0-1), Milan’s great 3-2 triumph at Fiorentina, Atalanta’s reaction after the elimination of the Champions League against Real Madrid and the triumph of Naples in the direct clash for Europe against Roma (0-2) marked this Sunday the day of Serie A, in which Inter Milan, despite not playing due to a coronavirus outbreak in their squad, got even closer to the title .
The big surprise of the day came at Allianz Stadium in Turin and with an Argentine as the protagonist. Without Paulo Dybala, who still has not recovered from his knee injury, it was Benevento’s Adolfo Gaich, the killer of the duel, with a goal with twenty minutes remaining that sank Andrea Pirlo’s Juventus.
Out of the Champions League in the round of 16 for the second consecutive year, with the future of Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in the air despite the desire of the club to continue one more year and ten points from the leadership, Juventus sees more than never his scepter of champion of Italy.
Inter, who did not play their match against Sassuolo due to a coronavirus outbreak in their squad, has a six-point lead over Milan and up to ten points over Juventus, third, with the same number of matches.
Antonio Conte’s men already see the “Scudetto” approaching and the end of Juventus’ reign.
Juventus succumbed to Benevento’s tactical organization and once again paid for their lack of change of pace. The same Juventus football director, Fabio Paratici, recognized this at the end of the crossing: “In recent years we have given our fans great satisfaction, today we gave them a great displeasure.”
Andrea Pirlo’s team was third in the table and was reached by Atalanta, which reacted after the elimination suffered against Madrid in the Champions League with a 2-0 in the field of Hellas Verona, with the Colombian Duván Zapata protagonist with a great goal.
Duván reached ten goals in Serie A for the fifth year in a row and is the third-highest-scoring player in Italy in the last three years, with 51 goals, behind Ciro Immobile (65) and Cristiano Ronaldo (75).
Milan did not fail, who left behind the elimination of the Europa League suffered against Manchester United and won 3-2 in the field of Fiorentina, with goals from the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, already recovered from his muscle injury, the Spanish Brahim Díaz and the Turkish Hakan Calhanoglu. And that those of Stefano Pioli lost 1-2 in the 50, by the targets of the Chilean Erick Pulgar and the French Frank Ribery.
With one more game compared to Inter, Milan is six points behind the lead and in the heat of the fight to, at least, return to the Champions League next year.
In the fight for Europe is also Lazio, who achieved a valuable 1-0 victory at Udinese and placed seventh, six points behind the “Champions” positions and with one game less than their direct rivals .
The day was closed by Roma and Napoli at the Olympic Stadium and Gennaro Gattuso’s men sealed a major victory 2-0, thanks to a double by Belgian Dries Mertens.
Napoli assaulted fifth position alone and moved within two points of the Champions League spots, one game less than their direct rivals.
For Roma it was a new setback against the “greats”, against whom it was barely able to add three points in nine games.
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