It was a wild, wild week in Serie A, where most of the relegation scrappers collected points and two Roman Top Five sides lost, one at home!
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Napoli’s 57 and Juventus’ 56 points are double digits clear of the chasing pack after this loony couple days of Italian top flight play.
AC Milan 2-1 Lazio
Patrick Cutrone’s opener gave the hosts a lead which would last just five minutes, but Giacomo Bonaventura nodded this beautiful ball home to edge AC Milan closer to the Top Four race.
SPAL 1-1 Inter Milan
Remember Alberto Paloschi? The ex-Swansea City striker has given lowly SPAL an invaluable point with a 90th minute goal to make amends for a 48th minute own goal as Inter drifted further off the pace set by Napoli and Juventus in the chase for a scudetto.
Fiorentina 1-4 Verona
It was a big week for relegation battlers, as on-loan Moise Kean (Juventus) scored twice to pull the visitors within three points of safety.
Crotone 1-1 Cagliari
Marcello Trotta‘s first half penalty was canceled out deep into first half stoppage as Cagliari denied 17th place Crotone all three points.
Elsewhere
Sassuolo 0-3 Atalanta — Saturday
Chievo 0-2 Juventus — Saturday
Genoa 0-1 Udinese — Behrami with lone goal
Torino 3-0 Benevento — Falque opens scoring in 3rd
Napoli 3-1 Bologna — Two more for Mertens
Roma 0-1 Sampdoria — Duvan Zapata scores late
STANDINGS
Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Home | Away | PTS |
Napoli | 22 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 48 | 14 | 34 | 8-2-1 | 10-1-0 | 57 |
Juventus | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 52 | 15 | 37 | 9-1-1 | 9-1-1 | 56 |
Lazio | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 57 | 27 | 30 | 6-2-2 | 8-2-2 | 46 |
Inter Milan | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 37 | 17 | 20 | 7-3-1 | 5-5-1 | 44 |
Roma | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 17 | 15 | 7-1-4 | 5-4-1 | 41 |
Sampdoria | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 31 | 10 | 8-1-2 | 3-3-5 | 37 |
AC Milan | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 6-2-3 | 4-2-5 | 34 |
Atalanta | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 27 | 7 | 5-3-3 | 4-3-4 | 33 |
Udinese | 22 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 35 | 31 | 4 | 5-1-5 | 5-1-5 | 32 |
Torino | 22 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 32 | 28 | 4 | 4-5-2 | 3-6-2 | 32 |
Fiorentina | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 28 | 3 | 4-4-3 | 3-3-5 | 28 |
Bologna | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 27 | 33 | -6 | 3-3-5 | 5-0-6 | 27 |
Chievo | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 39 | -18 | 3-4-4 | 2-3-6 | 22 |
Sassuolo | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 34 | -20 | 2-3-6 | 4-1-6 | 22 |
Genoa | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 24 | -8 | 2-2-7 | 3-4-4 | 21 |
Cagliari | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 34 | -14 | 3-1-7 | 3-2-6 | 21 |
Crotone | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 39 | -22 | 3-3-5 | 2-1-8 | 19 |
SPAL | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 40 | -17 | 2-5-4 | 1-3-7 | 17 |
Verona | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 45 | -23 | 2-1-8 | 2-3-6 | 16 |
Benevento | 22 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 49 | -36 | 2-1-8 | 0-0-11 | 7 |