Milan-Roma ends 3-1 THE NEWS
Roma falls at San Siro and Milan consolidates third place. The match between the disappointed Italian Cup teams was won by Pioli’s team 3-1. The Giallorossi started better but then in the 11th minute the Rossoneri found the advantage through Adli. Roma tried to respond but at the start of the second half Giroud scored the goal to make it 2-0. The Giallorossi reaction causes a penalty: Paredes shortens. Roma believes in it but is hit again by Theo Hernandez who closes the match at 3-1 for the Rossoneri.
Roma are now ninth, -5 from fourth place which qualifies for the Champions League. And for Mourinho it is the middle of the night. The poker game in Monza confirms that Inter plays in a separate championship to which Juve wants to continue to be admitted, who have until Tuesday to catch their breath. In the Champions League zone, Lazio’s run no longer stops and, including the basic Italian Cup derby, they line up their fifth victory with a surgical 1-0 against Lecce and move within one point of fourth place.
In fact, Fiorentina paid for the tiredness of the last few games and was stopped at home by the emerging Udinese, who took the lead twice. Bologna’s post-Christmas slowdown continues and, after an admirable first leg, they don’t win for the fourth time in a row and leave three points which relaunch Ranieri’s Cagliari. Empoli and Salernitana sink to the bottom while five teams fight to save themselves from third-to-last place: Cagliari and Verona now put pressure on Udinese, Frosinone and Sassuolo. After the Italian Cup diversion, the four-way Super Cup enters the scene in Arabia, which sees Napoli-Fiorentina and Lazio-Inter in the running for the trophy next week, with the relative postponement of four matches of the next round.
Three out of four leave for Riyadh after a positive day of the championship, only Fiorentina slows down. Maurizio Sarri, who doesn’t like mincing words, sarcastically thunders against this exodus into the desert by evoking Woody Allen’s famous film ‘Take the money and run’. However, it is his Lazio that is escaping towards a Champions League place thanks to a series of winning results obtained with strength, personality and cynicism. Lecce holds the pitch well at the Olimpico, wastes some opportunities badly and Lazio, with the quality of Luis Alberto and the return to goals of Felipe Anderson, finds three points which boost morale and enrich the standings. The only setbacks were Patric’s injury and the disqualification of Immobile and Zaccagni in the next match against Napoli. Complicated match for Fiorentina, who meet an improving Udinese after the hat-trick against Bologna. The Friulians pass with Lovric and come close to doubling the score with Pereyra.
The Viola pushed harder in the second half and caught their opponents with a splendid header from Beltran. It seems like the beginning of the recovery, but Udinese takes back the lead of the match with Thauvin. Final forcing and deserved draw from the home team with a penalty from Nzola and recrimination for a subsequent post from Bonaventura. There is no big gap between Bologna’s play when they were winning and now that the results are slipping away. There is a bit of tiredness, a series of injuries, some gaps in the squad. In Cagliari the absence of Zikzee and a bad day for Calafiori, one of the best of the season, had an impact. Thiago Motta celebrates Orsolini’s goal, then Cagliari (who complain about many defections) equalizes with Petagna, who too easily overcomes the former Roma defender. Calafiori was then unlucky to cause the own goal which gave Ranieri three points, essential for making significant progress in the fight for salvation.
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