Italian Serie A – Round 29

Goals Scored::33

March 18, 2017

Torino            2-2     Inter Milan

Daniele Baselli 33’              Geoffrey Kondogbia 27’

Afriyie Acquah 59’              Antonio Candreva 62’

It was an open and entertaining match between Torino and Inter Milan. In the end, goals and draw was the fitting result.

AC Milan       1-0          Genoa

Matias Fernandez 33’

AC Milan took advantage of the points dropped by Inter Milan.

A victory over Genoa allowed Milan to move just two points away from their city rivals.

March 19, 2017

Empoli           2-3             Napoli

Omar El Kaddouri 70’                   Lorenzo Insigne 19’ 38’

Massimo Maccarone 82’(pen)   Dries Mertens 24’

Empoli got more than we expected from this fixture.

Even with an early penalty miss by Dries Mertens, three goals in the first half was enough to guide Napoli to a third consecutive league victory.

Bologna        4-1      Chievo Verona

Simone Verdi 61’                 Nahuel Castro 40’

Blerim Dzemaili 72’ 90’

Federico Di Francesco 90’+3’

Blerim Dzemaili scored a brace to contribute to Bologna’s home victory over Chievo Verona. The victory allowed Bologna to cut the gap between the two teams down to four points.

Crotone         0-1         Fiorentina

                                                    Nikola Kalinic 90’

For the second match in a row, Nikola Kalinic scored a late and only goal of the match to give Fiorentina all three points

Sampdoria    0-1    Juventus

                                              Juan Cuadrado 7’

Juventus maintained their 8-point lead at the top of the league table after picking up another 3 points in a closely contested match away against Sampdoria.

Cagliari        0-0     Lazio

Lazio’s winning streak was broken by Cagliari.

A point from this fixture widened the gap between Lazio and the top three teams in Serie A.

Atalanta       3-0        Pescara

Alejandro Gomez 13’ 90’

Alberto Grassi 69’

Pescara remains at the bottom of the league table after suffering another league defeat. A win in their last 11 matches, not a lot was expected from Pescara.

Udinese         4-1          Palermo

Cyril Thereau 42’                    Roland Sallai 12’

Duvan Zapata 60’

Rodrigo De Paul 68’

Jakub Jankto 80’

After picking just a point in their last five league matches, getting an early goal couldn’t stop Palermo from suffering a third defeat in a row.

Roma           3-1        Sassuolo

Leandro Paredes 16’         Gregoire Defrel 9’

Mohamed Sala 45’+3’

Edin Dzeko 68’

Roma is doing their best to keep up with Juventus at the top of the table.