ITALIAN SERIE A
Just like In the previous round, the Milan teams (AC Milan and Inter Milan) dropped points, while the Roman teams (Lazio and Roma) picked up the maximum points.
Lazio is 14 points behind Napoli in the title race but 5 points clear of everyone else.
MATCH RESULTS – ITALIAN SERIE A
Cremonese [ 1-0 ] Empoli
Spezia [ 0-3 ] Lazio
Bologna [ 1-1 ] AC Milan
Napoli [ 0-0 ] Hellas Verona
Inter Milan [ 0-1 ] Monza
Lecce [ 1-1 ] Sampdoria
Torino [ 1-1 ] Salernitana
Sassuolo [ 1-0 ] Juventus
Roma [ 3-0 ] Udinese
Fiorentina [ 1-1 ] Atalanta
Napoli dropped points but they have the room to do so. Their lead in the title race was reduced to 14 points after a goalless draw with Hellas Verona.
Lazio became the second team to cross the 60-point mark after comfortably beating Spezia.
Roma got comfortable in third place with a comfortable win over Udinese.
The Roman teams were both 3-0 winners over the round.
AC Milan picked up a point, while Inter Milan was left pointless.
Sassuolo moved two positions up to 10th after beating Juventus.
The teams in the relegation zone avoided defeat; Sampdoria and Hellas Verona were involved in draws, and Cremonese were winners.
LEAGUE STANDINGS – ITALIAN SERIE A
1 | Napoli ( 30 ) – 75 points
2 | Lazio ( 30 ) – 61 points
3 | Roma ( 30 ) – 56 points
4 | AC Milan ( 30 ) – 53 points
5 | Inter Milan ( 30 ) – 51 points
6 | Atalanta ( 30 ) – 49 points
7 | Juventus ( 30 ) – 44 points
8 | Bologna ( 30 ) – 44 points
9 | Fiorentina ( 30 ) – 42 points
10 | Sassuolo ( 30 ) – 40 points
11 | Torino ( 30 ) – 39 points
12 | Udinese ( 30 ) – 39 points
13 | Monza ( 30 ) – 38 points
14 | Empoli ( 30 ) – 32 points
15 | Salernitana ( 30 ) – 30 points
16 | Lecce ( 30 ) – 28 points
17 | Spezia ( 30 ) – 26 points
18 | Hellas Verona ( 30 ) – 23 points
19 | Cremonese ( 30 ) – 19 points
20 | Sampdoria ( 30 ) – 16 points
April 14.
Cremonese [ 1-0 ] Empoli
Cremonese – Cyriel Dessers 4′
Spezia [ 0-3 ] Lazio
Lazio – Ciro Immobile 36′ (pen) Felipe Anderson 52′ Marcos Antonio 89′
April 15.
Bologna [ 1-1 ] AC Milan
Bologna – Nicola Sansone 1′
AC Milan – Tommaso Pobega 40′
Inter Milan [ 0-1 ] Monza
Monza – Luca Caldirola 78′
April 16.
Lecce [ 1-1 ] Sampdoria
Lecce – Assan Ceesay 31′
Sampdoria – Jesse 75′
Torino [ 1-1 ] Salernitana
Torino – Antonio Sanabria 57′
Salernitana – Tonny Vihena 9′
Sassuolo [ 1-0 ] Juventus
Sassuolo – Gregoire Defrel 64′
Roma [ 3-0 ] Udinese
Roma – Edoardo Bove 37′ Lorenzo Pellegrini 55′ Tammy Abraham 90+1′
April 17.
Fiorentina [ 1-1 ] Atalanta
Fiorentina – Arthur Cabral 56′ (pen)
Atalanta – Joakim Maehle 37′
Lazio wins four games in a row.
Napoli was held to a goalless draw by relegation-zoned Hellas Verona.
Cyriel Dessers’s goal in the 4th minute was enough to get Cremonese a back-to-back league win through a 1-0 victory over Empoli. Cremonense’s 3rd league victory of the season.
Nicola Sansone put Bologna up in 33 seconds but Tommaso Pobega’s strike in the 40th minute got AC Milan even to end the first half on a 1-1 draw that held till the final whistle.
Inter Milan went 5 league matches without a win after Monza left San Siro with a ‘1-0’ win. It was the first win for Monza in 5 league matches. Monza will finish the season as winners against Inter Milan. The reverse fixture ended in a ‘2-2’ draw
Lecce picked up their first league point in 7 matches after losing a lead to settle for a 1-1 draw at home with bottom-tabled Sampdoria.
Salernitana’s 6th draw in a row after a 1-1 draw in Turin against Torino.
Juventus followed a 2-1 league defeat to Lazio with a 1-0 defeat to Sassuolo.
Gregoire Defrel scored the only goal of the match to get Sassuolo an unexpected win over Juventus.
Roma won their third league game in a row after a 3-0 win over Udinese. Edoardo Bove pounced on Bryan Cristante’s penalty miss after it struck the post to give Roma a first-half lead. Lorenzo Pellegrini doubled the lead after 10 minutes of the second half, and Tammy Abraham tripled the lead in the first minute of the final added time.
