Italian Serie A – Round 35

Goals Scored:: 35

Serie A

May 6, 2017

Napoli             3-1             Cagliari

Dries Mertens 2’ 49’         Diego Farias 90’+2’

Lorenzo Insigne 67’

Napoli did what was expected and came out victorious against Cagliari.

Juventus            1-1          Torino

Gonzalo Higuain 90’+2’    Adem Ljajic 52’

Gonzalo Higuain was once again the hero for Juventus. His late goal saved Juventus from suffering their first home defeat of the season.

May 7, 2017

Udinese            1-1            Atalanta

Stipe Perica 53’                 Bryan Cristante 41’

Atalanta has their sight on Europa League qualification spot and a point against a comfortable Udinese side was good enough for Atalanta.  

Empoli            3-1          Bologna

Daniele Croce 5’           Simone Verdi 11’

Manuel Pasqual 38’

Andrea Costa 46’

Empoli picked up three points at home to better their odds of avoiding relegation. Mathematically, relegation threat remains for Empoli.

Pescara           0-1           Crotone

                                       Aleksandar Tonev 71’

Crotone defeated relegated Pescara to avoid relegation.

The result allows Crotone stay alive in the Serie A for another round.

Sassuolo             2-2         Fiorentina

Matteo Politano 74’(pen)   Federico Chiesa 37’

Pietri Iemmello 85’             Federico Bernardeschi 90’+4’

A late injury time goal allowed Fiorentina to salvage a point after blowing a goal lead late in the second half.

Genoa               1-0        Inter Milan

Goran Pandev 70’

Genoa handed Inter Milan a third consecutive league defeat.  Inter has now gone 7 matches without registering a victory.

The result allowed Genoa to ended a 7-match winless streak as well.  

Chievo Verona        1-1       Palermo

Sergio Pellissier 67’(pen)    Edoardo Goldaniga 88’

Relegated Palermo picked up a point against Chievo Verona. There was nothing at stake for these two sides but pride.

Lazio               7-3                Sampdoria

Balde Diao Keita 2’              Karol Linetty 32’

Ciro Immobile 19’(pen) 70’   Fabio Quagliarella 72’ 90’(pen)

Wesley Hoedt 36’                    

Felipe Anderson 38’(pen)

Stefan de Vrij 45’

Senad Lulic 65’

Lazio and Sampdoria blessed us with 10 goals. (Sampdoria fans wouldn’t see this as a blessing).

Lazio scored 6 goals against a 10-man Sampdoria side to grab a third consecutive victory.

AC Milan        1-4           Roma

Mario Pasalic 76’           Edin Dzeko 8’ 28’

                                     Stephan El Shaarawy 78’

                                     Daniele De Rossi 87’                                      

Milan was no match for Roma.

With Juventus failing to close the deal on the title, there might still be a little bit of hope left in the hearts of Roma fans to steal the Scudetto.