The Italian Serie A after 17 rounds – The defending champions are back on top of the season.

SERIE A
Title defense on track
Inter Milan took the top spot with a win against Cagliari on Sunday.
AC Milan dropped points in a 1-1 draw with Udinese.
Napoli was beaten at home by Empoli

MATCH RESULTS
Genoa 0-2 Sampdoria
Fiorentina 4-0 Salernitana
Venezia 1-1 Juventus
Udinese 1-1 AC Milan
Torino 2-1 Bologna
Hellas Verona 1-2 Atalanta
Napoli 0-1 Empoli
Sassuolo 2-1 Lazio
Inter Milan 4-0 Cagliari
Roma 2-0 Spezia

LEAGUE STANDINGS
1. Inter Milan – 40 points
2. AC Milan – 39 points
3. Atalanta – 37 points
4. Napoli – 36 points
5. Fiorentina – 30 points
6. Roma – 28 points
7. Juventus – 28 points
8. Empoli – 26 points
9. Lazio – 25 points
10. Bologna – 24 points
11. Verona – 23 points
12. Sassuolo – 23 points
13. Torino – 22 points
14. Sampdoria – 18 points
15. Udinese – 17 points
16. Venezia – 16 points
17. Spezia – 12 points
18. Genoa – 10 points
19. Cagliari – 10 points
20. Salernitana – 8 points

FIORENTINA 4-0 SALERNITANA
Dusan Vlahovic scored two in Fiorentina’s win against bottom table Salernitana.

UDINESE 1-1 AC MILAN
Zlatan Ibrahimovic got the injury-time goal for AC Milan to avoid defeat.
AC Milan did enough to avoid defeat but not enough to not drop points against Udinese.
Udinese is now fire league games without a win. They will take the point against AC Milan but they will also feel like they allowed two points to slip away.

VENEZIA 1-1 JUVENTUS
Juventus lost their lead and two points against recently promoted Venezia that was coming to this game facing a potential fourth straight defeat.

It’s now 5 defeats and 4 draws from 17 matches played by Juventus.
Juventus dropped more points against teams they should be beating ‘convincingly’ on paper.

HELLAS VERONA 1-2 ATALANTA
Four league wins in a row for Atalanta.
Atalanta comes from a goal down to get the three points against Verona.

NAPOLI 0-1 EMPOLI
Napoli failed to get the result to capitalize on AC Milan’s failure to win against Udinese.
Patrick Cutrone sunk Napoli’s dream with the only goal of the match to narrow the points between the two teams to 10.
Napoli went from being unbeaten in the league to drop points in their last three: a draw and two defeats.

SASSUOLO 2-1 LAZIO
An early goal in the opening six minutes could not stop Lazio from a defeat against Sassuolo.

INTER MILAN 4- 0 CAGLIARI
Had he converted his penalty, Lautaro Martinez would’ve gotten a hattrick.
Inter Milan did not waste the opportunity to go top of the league.

Roma 2- 0 SPEZIA
Roma needed this win to end back-to-back league defeat