ITALIAN SERIE A
Naples, Rome, and Milan is the order of the top quarter of the Serie A standings after 29 rounds played. There are 9 more rounds to go; with Napoli enjoying a healthy 16-point lead in the title race.
MATCH RESULTS – ITALIAN SERIE A
Salernitana [ 1-1 ] Inter Milan
Lecce [ 1-2 ] Napoli
AC Milan [ 0-0 ] Empoli
Udinese [ 2-2 ] Monza
Fiorentina [ 1-1 ] Spezia
Atalanta [ 0-2 ] Bologna
Sampdoria [ 2-3 ] Cremonese
Hellas Verona [ 2-1 ] Sassuolo
Torino [ 0-1 ] Roma
Lazio [ 2-1 ] Juventus
Napoli and Lazio hold on to their positions with a win in their respective games.
Napoli picked up a win at Lecce to bounce back from defeat in the last round to Milan, while Lazio handed Juventus a defeat.
AC Milan and Inter Milan dropped a position after dropping two points; AC Milan dropped points in a goalless draw with Empoli, while Inter Milan allowed Salernitana to get into the game and get a late equalizing goal.
With the Milan team dropping points, Roma moved up two positions to 3rd with a narrow win in Turin.
Bologna closes in on Juventus and Atalanta after beating Atalanta.
The only positional changes that happened at the bottom half of the league table were at the bottom of the standings. Cremonense beat Sampdoria for a switch in position. Both teams remain in the relegation zone with a Hellas Verona side that managed to pick up three points against Sassuolo.
LEAGUE STANDINGS – ITALIAN SERIE A
1 | Napoli ( 29 ) – 74 points
2 | Lazio ( 29 ) – 58 points
3 | Roma ( 29 ) – 53 points
4 | AC Milan ( 29 ) – 52 points
5 | Inter Milan ( 29 ) – 51 points
6 | Atalanta ( 29 ) – 48 points
7 | Juventus ( 29 ) – 44 points
8 | Bologna ( 29 ) – 43 points
9 | Fiorentina ( 29 ) – 41 points
10 | Udinese ( 29 ) – 39 points
11 | Torino ( 29 ) – 38 points
12 | Sassuolo ( 29 ) – 37 points
13 | Monza ( 29 ) – 35 points
14 | Empoli ( 29 ) – 32 points
15 | Salernitana ( 29 ) – 29 points
16 | Lecce ( 29 ) – 27 points
17 | Spezia ( 29 ) – 26 points
18 | Hellas Verona ( 29 ) – 22 points
19 | Cremonese ( 29 ) – 16 points
20 | Sampdoria ( 29 ) – 15 points
April 7.
Salernitana [ 1-1 ] Inter Milan
Salernitana – Antoino Candreva 90′
Inter Milan – Robin Gosens 6′
Lecce [ 1-2 ] Napoli
Lecce – Federico Di Francesco 52′
Napoli – Giovanni di Lorenzo 18′ Wladimiro Falcone 64′(og)
April 8.
Udinese [ 2-2 ] Monza
Udinese – Sandi Lovric 18′ Beto 90+2′
Monza – Andrea Colpani 48′ Nicolo Rovella 56′
Fiorentina [ 1-1 ] Spezia
Fiorentina – Przemyslaw Winsiewski 25′
Spezia – M’Bala Nzola 32′
Atalanta [ 0-2 ] Bologna
Bologna – Nicola Sansone 49′ Riccardo Orsolini 86′
Sampdoria [ 2-3 ] Cremonese
Sampdoria – Mehdi Leris 15′ Sam Lammers 66′
Cremonese – Paolo Ghiglione 35′ Luka Lochoshvili 85′ Leonaro Sernicola 90+5
Hellas Verona [ 2-1 ] Sassuolo
Hellas Verona – Federico Ceccherini 84′ Adolfo Gaich 90+5′
Sassuolo – Abdou Harroui 34′
Torino [ 0-1 ] Roma
Roma – Paulo Dybala 8′
Lazio [ 2-1 ] Juventus
Lazio – Sergej Milinkovic-Savic 38′ Mattia Zaccagni 53′
Juventus – Adrien Rabiot 42′
Missed opportunities came back to bite Inter Milan at the end when Antonio Candreva’s wonder strike found its way into the back of the net in the 90th minute to cancel the lead Robin Gosenss had given Inter Milan in the 6th minute.
Inter Milan are not 4 league games without a win (3 defeats), in a run of 6 games without a win in all competitions.
Lecce loses 6 league matches in a row.
Napoli bounced back from a shock ‘4-0’ defeat to Milan in the last round with a 2-1 away victory over relegation-threatened Lecce.
AC Milan followed a ‘4-0’ win over Napoli (in Naples) with a goalless draw at home against Empoli. (Football)
Udinese avoided consecutive league defeats. A late penalty awarded to Udinese gave way for Beto to score an equalizing goal in the second minute of added time and get his side a point at home from a 2-2 draw with Monza.
Monza goes 4 league games without a win (3 draws).
Cremonense wins the bottom-table clash.
Cremonense wins their second Serie A match of the season to move from the bottom of the table while pushing Sampdoria down. This result does little to the chances of both clubs surviving relegation.
Hellas Verona avoided a home defeat against Sassuolo after firing two late goals to win their first match in seven rounds while handing Sassuolo their first league defeat in six matches (4 wins).
Sassuolo was a goal up for 50 minutes until Federico Ceccherini scored the equalizing goal for Hellas Verona in the 84th minute. Adolfo Gaich, who had entered the match in the 81st minute scored the winning goal in the 5th minute of added time.
Roma followed their win over Sampdoria with a 1-0 win over Torino
Mattia Zaccagni scored the only goal of the second half to get Lazio a 2-1 win over Juventus. That is the 3rd straight league victory for Lazio and the first defeat for Juventus in 7 matches.
