2018/19 Italian Serie A – Round 26 – ‘Still unbeaten’ Juventus takes a win at San Paolo and builds a 16 points lead in the title race.

Napoli, Inter Milan and Roma accumulated zero points.
Juventus widens the lead at the top to 16 points and remains unbeaten in the league.
Fabio Quagliarella becomes joint top scorer in the league.

Briefings
March 1, 2019
Cagliari 2-1 Inter Milan
Cagliari – Ivan Perisic 31’(og) Leonardo Pavoletti 43’
Inter Milan – Lautaro Marinez 38’

March 2, 2019
Empoli 3-3 Parma
Empoli –Cristian Dell Orco 19’ Francesco Caputo 59’(pen) Matias Silvestre 90+1’
Parma – Gervinho 13’ Luca Rigoni 45+2’ Bruno Alves 82’

AC Milan 1-0 Sassuolo
AC Milan – Pol Lirola 35’(og)

Lazio 3-0 Roma
Lazio – Felipe Caicedo 12’ Ciro Immobile 73’(pen) Danilo Cataldi 89’

March 3, 2019
Torino 3–0 Chievo Verona
Torino – Andrea Belotti 76’ Tomas Rincon 90+2’ Simone Zaza 90+4

Genoa 0–0 Frosinone

SPAL 1–2 Sampdoria
SPAL – Jasmin Kurtic 90+5’
Sampdoria – Fabio Quagliarella 4’ 11’

Udinese 2–1 Bologna
Udinese – Rodrigo De Paul 25’(pen) Ignacio Pussetto 79’
Bologna – Rodrigo Palacio 39’

Atalanta 3–1 Fiorentina
Atalanta – Josip Ilicic 28’ Alejandro Gomez 34’Robin Gosens 59’
Fiorentina – Luis Muriel 3’

Napoli 1–2 Juventus
Napoli – Jose Maria Callejon 61’
Juventus – Miralem Pjanic 28’ Emre Can 29’

Inter Milan would be disappointed for suffering defeat at Cagliari and dropping down to 4th in the league.

Empoli needed this result to help battle the relegation threat.
It was a 6-goal thriller when Empoli and Parma met. Empoli scored a late equalizer to deny Parma from a win that would have seen the points between the two teams widened to 11 points.

AC Milan wins their 4th straight home match (3 straight Serie A matches). With the exception of their Super Cup defeat to Juventus, Milan is unbeaten since December 22, 2018 (12 matches). A ‘1-0’ victory against Sassuolo handed AC Milan a 4th straight Serie A victory.

Lazio smashed Roma in the Derby della Capitale. Lazio moves within a win from equaling Roma’s points accumulation in the league after taking a ‘3-0’ win in the Rome derby. Roma’s first league defeat in their last 9 matches.

6 straight league matches without a defeat for Torino with a 50% winning record after doing the expected and dishing out a 3-0 defeat to bottom table Chievo Verona.

A 10-man Frosinone side picked up a point from Genoa after a goalless draw.

Fabio Quagliarella scored two goals to be the current joint-top scorer in the league.

Udinese beats Bologna to get consecutive league victories from teams in the relegation zone.

Fiorentina couldn’t avoid defeat at Atalanta despite getting an early lead in the 3rd minute from Luis Muriel. Atalanta wins 3-1.

Juventus marches to their 8th straight Serie A title after beating Napoli away to open a 16 points lead at the top of the table. Just like their earlier meeting in the season, Napoli had their opportunities to get something out of this fixture but failed to make it count.