October 20, 2018
Roma 0–2 SPAL
SPAL – Andrea Petagna 38’ Kevin Bonifazi 56’
Juventus 1–1 Genoa
Juventus – Cristiano Ronaldo 18’
Genoa – Daniel Bessa 67’
Udinese 0–3 Napoli
Napoli – Fabian 14’ Dries Mertens 82’(pen) Marko Rog 86’
October 21, 2018
Frosinone 3–3 Empoli
Frosinone – Matias Silvestre (og) Daniel Ciofani 54’(pen) 63’
Empoli – Mah zajc 32’ Matias Silvestre 48’ Salih Ucan 79’
Bologna 2–2 Torino
Bologna – Federico Santander 59’ Arturo Calabresi 77’
Torino – Iago Falque 14’ Daniele Baselli
Chievo Verona 1–5 Atalanta
Chievo Verona – Valter Birsa 84’(pen)
Atalanta – Marten de Roon 25’ Josip Ilicic 28’ 50’ 52’ Robin Gosens 72’
Parma 0–2 Lazio
Lazio – Ciro Immobile 81’(pen) Joaquin Correa 90+4
Fiorentina 1–1 Cagliari
Fiorentina – Jordan Verertout 60’(pen)
Cagliari – Leonardo Pavoletti 69’
Inter Milan 1–0 AC Milan
Inter Milan – Mauro Icardi 90+2’
October 22, 2018
Sampdoria 0-0 Sassuolo
Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal for Juventus was only good enough to earn them the maximum points at home against Genoa. Daniel Bessa’s equalizing header secured a point for Genoa while avoiding successive league defeat. This is the first slip-up of the season by Juventus. The chasing pack in Serie A will be hoping for more days like this.
Roma is beaten at home by SPAL to end win winning run of 4 competitive matches.
Napoli scored 2 goals in the final 10 minutes of regulation time to make it a convincing 3-0 victory at home against Udinese. The victory allowed Napoli to take advantage of the points Juventus dropped by cutting the gap between the two teams down to 4 points.
A battle in the drop zone, Matias Silvestre made up for the goal he gave to Frosinone to take an early lead against his Empoli side by scoring to give them a lead lasted briefly in their 3-3 draw. Frosinone remains winless but avoided defeat to a fellow relegation side.
Bologna came from2 goals down to stop Torino from taking an away victory.
Josip Ilicic scored three goals for Atalanta to seal a comfortable ‘5-1’ victory over bottom table Chievo Verona.
Lazio kept up the pace with the rest of the ‘top four’ in the league after getting the goals in the final 10 minutes of regulation time to defeat promoted Parma. The result denied Parma from making it a third successive victory since their defeat to Napoli.
Fiorentina and Cagliari shared the points in a 1-1 draw while the City of Milan gets painted in ‘Blue and Black’ after Mauro Icardi snatched a win for Inter Milan with a goal in the additional minutes.
