In the 28th round of the Italian league, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick for Juventus to win 3: 1 at Cagliari. The stellar Portuguese celebrated his 600th league career start in style. The leader of the competition, Inter Milan, beat FC Turin 2: 1, with Lautaro Martínez scoring the winning goal in the 85th minute.
The “Nerazurri” are already nine points ahead of the city rival AC, who lost 0: 1 to Naples. Sampdoria Genoa lost 1: 3 in Bologna. Czech midfielder Jakub Jankto started in the Sampdorie starting line-up and played 69 minutes before he was replaced by Manolo Gabbiadini.
Ronaldo took the lead in the tenth minute, then changed the right penalty and the 57th hat-trick ended his career in the 32nd minute with a cross shot with his left. The top league scorer thus responded to the criticism after Tuesday’s elimination of Juventus in the round of 16 of the Champions League, which he also indicated after the third goal with a gesture to the television camera.
Ronaldo scored his second fastest hat-trick in his career, scoring three goals faster in 2015 in the Real Madrid jersey against Espanol (20th minute). The “old lady” remains in third place and loses ten points to the leader Inter, but she has a good match.
“With Cristtrick, Cristiano Ronaldo sent the best possible answer to the critics,” former English representative and glossary Gary Lineker wrote on Twitter.
A hattrick in 33 minutes as @Cristiano answers his critics in the best way possible. ????????????????
— Gary Lineker ???? (@GaryLineker) March 14, 2021
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Inter struggled against Turin in the opening half and, as in the first match of the season, did not score a goal once. After a change of sides, the second best scorer of the competition, Romelu Lukak, opened the score from the penalty kick, but soon leveled Antonio Sanabria in the corner.
The decision was made by Martínez’s header from the 85th minute. The Argentine forward scored the 14th goal of the season, bringing his balance from last year 11 laps before the end. Thanks to the contribution of the most productive attacking duo Serie A, Inter is also nine points ahead of the city rival AC, which will welcome Naples to its stadium in the evening. Turin remains in the descent zone.
AC Milan did not collect in the first half for the fourth time in a row, but it was not enough for points against Naples. After the change of sides, Matteo Politano prevailed and Naples, with three points, moved up to fifth place by a score ahead of AS Roma, who lost 0: 2 to Parma.
The success of Bologna was taken care of mainly by Mattias Svanberg and Musa Barrow, who scored a goal and assistance. Only Fabio Quagliarella prevailed for Sampdoria, confirming his position as the team’s best scorer with the ninth goal of the season. The 38-year-old started the 400th match in Serie A, with only seven other players having so many starts in the three-point era.
The Genoa team did not win for the fifth time in a row and remains eleventh. Bologna moved in the incomplete table just behind its current opponent.
Italian Football League – Round 27:
Bologna – Sampdoria Genoa 3: 1 (27. Barrow, 41. Svanberg, 70. Soriano – 37. Quagliarella), FC Turin – Inter Milan 1: 2 (70. Sanabria – 62. Lukaku z pen., 85. Martínez), Parma – AS Roma 2: 0 (9. Mihaila, 55. Hernani z pen.), Cagliari – Juventus Turín 1: 3 (61. Simeone – 10., 25. z pen. a 32. Ronaldo), AC Milan – Naples 0: 1 (49. Politano).
Table:
| 1. | Inter Milan | 27 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 65:26 | 65 |
| 2. | AC Milan | 27 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 50:31 | 56 |
| 3. | Juventus Turin | 26 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 54:22 | 55 |
| 4. | Bergamo | 27 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 63:34 | 52 |
| 5. | Naples | 26 | 16 | 2 | 8 | 56:29 | 50 |
| 6. | AS Roma | 27 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 51:40 | 50 |
| 7. | Lazio Rome | 26 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 42:37 | 46 |
| 8. | Sassuolo | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 43:41 | 39 |
| 9. | Hellas Verona | 27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 36:32 | 38 |
| 10. | Udine | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 30:35 | 33 |
| 11. | Sampdoria Genoa | 27 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 37:42 | 32 |
| 12. | Bologna | 27 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 36:42 | 31 |
| 13. | Fiorentina | 27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 33:42 | 29 |
| 14. | FC Genoa | 27 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 28:39 | 28 |
| 15. | Spice | 27 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 34:50 | 26 |
| 16. | Benevento | 27 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 27:52 | 26 |
| 17. | Cagliari | 27 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 30:46 | 22 |
| 18. | FC Turin | 25 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 36:47 | 20 |
| 19. | Parma | 27 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 25:52 | 19 |
| 20. | Crotone | 27 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 30:67 | 15 |
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