After Juventus picked up a ‘2-0’ away victory against Fiorentina, the pressure was on Napoli to attain Maximum points from their match with Lazio, or drop from the top spot. Napoli showed the traits of champions and rose to the occasion, dismantling Lazio to a ‘4-1’ victory.
Federico Bernardeschi didn’t mind celebrating his opening goal for Juventus against his former club, and Gonzalo Higuain surely enjoyed reaching 50 goals for Juventus in their victory at Florence.
AC Milan remains undefeated in 2018 after doing the expected and thrashing recently-promoted and relegation-threatened SPAL 2013 to a ‘4-0’ score.
He hasn’t scored a goal in 5 league matches (since he scored four goals against SPAL 2013), but Ciro Immobile remains top goalscorer on 20 goals.
At the San Siro, Bologna finished the match with 9-men after expulsions while Inter Milan picked up their first victory in 8 league matches. Yann Karamoh scores on first Serie A start to end Inter Milan’s winless run.
It was consecutive victories after a set of defeats for Genoa when Diego Laxalt scored a late winner to defeat Chievo Verona.
6 defeats in the last 7 matches for relegation-zoned Hellas Verona and a fourth consecutive defeat for bottom-tabled Benevento, after giving up an early lead to suffer a 5-2 defeat at the Stadio Olimpico to AS Roma.
