Despite suffering to beat Sassuolo 3-1 (7th), Juventus took advantage of the two-goal draw between Inter Milan and Rome (second and third in Serie A) to get closer to the podium after the 17th round of the Italian championship.
The reigning Serie A champion’s result may be misleading, as Italy’s season reveal Sassuolo held 1-1 on the scoreboard and played the entire second half with 10 men until the minute 82, when the Welshman Aaron Ramsey broke the tie.
The Brazilian Danilo Pereira had advanced to the Turinese (51), with a shoe right outside the area, while the visitors were already playing an inferiority, after the expulsion by a direct red from the Guinean born in Spain Pedro Obiang for a hard tackle on Federico Chiesa shortly before the break (45 + 2).
But when it looked like Andrea Pirlo’s side had achieved the hardest thing, Ivorian Hamed Traoré found a gap in the local defense and passed through crosses for Grégoire Defrel, and the French striker. planted himself before Wojciech Szcesny to beat the goal. Polish.
Sassuolo’s resistance lasted until the 82nd minute, when Ramsey, in pure 9 position, finished a Gianluca Frabotta cross at the net.
Ronaldo put the finishing touches by finishing a block in the discount.
Juventus scored three important points but lost to injury to American Weston McKennie and Argentinian Paulo Dybala, who left the field injured before the break.
The Piedmont team (4th), in search of their tenth consecutive title, is placed in the table with 33 points, one from Roma, four from Inter and seven from the Milan leader, even if Juventus have one game less .
Inter and Roma tied two goals at the Stadio Olímpico in the Italian capital.
– The ineffectiveness of ‘Nerazzurri’ –
The Nerazzurri, after reaching the break with the scoreboard against, after a goal by Lorenzo Pellegrini (17) for Roma, despite having dominated in the first half, were able to turn the scoreboard in the second half, thanks to the goals of the Slovakian Milan Skriniar after a corner (56) and the Moroccan Achraf Hakimi (63).
But this decidedly fragile Inter could not resist in front of the Roman pressure of the last quarter of an hour. And the goalkeeper of the Milanese team, the Slovenian Samir Handanovic, decisive several times throughout the match, could not do anything in front of a header from Gianluca Mancini (86th), which meant the final draw.
A new disappointment for the Interistas, a week after receiving Juventus, from whom the coach of the Nerazzurri, Antonio Conte, dreams of snatching the crown.
“It was a good game, against a team that has the same goals as us,” said the Interista coach.
“Later, towards the end of the game, sometimes there comes a certain fear that pushes you to play lower, but from the bench we kept asking to keep the pressure on,” Conte added.
Eliminated from the Champions League and without regularity in Serie A, Conte excluded new recruits on the January market: “I have often read that Conte wants or asks (to the players), but this year the word wanting does not exist not. Our team has qualities and flaws, but we will fight with these players, ”added the technician to the DAZN channel.
Portuguese Roma coach Paulo Fonseca especially lamented “the fatal quarter of an hour of the second half”, but his players have a new opportunity on Friday with the derby against Lazio (8th).
– Triumphs of Naples and Lazio –
Also this Sunday, Naples (6th) won 2-1 during his visit to Udinese (13th) thanks to a goal on the horn of Frenchman Tiémoué Bakayoko (90), after Lorenzo Insigne (from penalty in 15th ) and Kevin Lasagna (27) would have placed the provisional 1-1 on the scoreboard.
Another team that is climbing positions is Lazio (8th), which won on Parma court (19th) by 2-0 with goals in the second half from Spaniard Luis Alberto (55) and Ecuadorian Felipe Caicedo (67).
Bottom Crotone continues to sink in the table, this time losing against Hellas Verona (9th) 2-1.
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