Juventus, thanks to a penalty at the very end of the match from Paulo Dybala, snatched a point on the field of Inter Milan (1-1) on Sunday in the shock of the 9th day of Serie A, which saw the leader Naples give up their first points against Roma (0-0).
AC Milan, the only Top 8 team to have won this weekend (4-2 in Bologna on Saturday), is doing the right thing by joining Naples in the lead.
The duo (with 25 points out of 27 possible) have now made the hole with seven points ahead of Inter (3rd).
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What a final in San Siro! While Inter Milan seemed to hold a capital victory in hand, in a tense shock, Juventus obtained a penalty for a late intervention by Denzel Dumfries on Turin's Alex Sandro, on the edge of the penalty area. After viewing the images on the edge of the field, the referee awarded this penalty to Juve that the returning Paulo Dybala, who entered the second half after almost a month of absence for a muscle injury, transformed without trembling (89th ).
Until this final stroke of fate, Inter had managed their advantage rather well, obtained early in the match thanks to a goal from Dzeko, who had regained the ball returned by the bar on a powerful - and deflected - shot from Hakan Calhanoglu.
At that moment, Juve were playing ten, with Federico Bernardeschi coming out with a shoulder injury, but his replacement Rodrigo Bentancur not having entered yet.
Juventus, long harmless, however, had the merit of fighting to the end, with the decisive starts of Dybala but also of Federico Chiesa (65th), who had been left on the bench at kickoff.
However, this sharing of points does nobody's business: Inter (3rd) are seven points behind the head but Juve also remains far, ten lengths.
Naples braked
No goal but tension (José Mourinho excluded in the second half, Luciano Spalletti after the match) at the Olimpico between Roma and Napoli.
After eight victories in the first eight matches, Napoli let go of their first points and will therefore not beat the record of ten consecutive victories at the start of the championship held by ... Roma (Rudi Gardia period, during the 2013/14 season ).
"It's difficult to win all the matches, we can be happy with this point," said the Neapolitan defender Kalidou Koulibay, particularly satisfied with not having taken a goal: "we sacrifice ourselves for each other".
Roma (4th), too, was satisfied with this draw, three days after the slap received in the Europa League Conference against Norwegians Bodo Glimt (1-6).
Lazio casting
Three days after the 0-0 against Marseille in the Europa League, Lazio sank on the pitch of Hellas Verona (1-4), with four goals from the same man: Giovanni Simeone, 26, the son of Atlético de Madrid coach Diego Simeone.
Enough to leave his trainer Maurizio Sarri disillusioned.
"We show great limits in terms of consistency, a team cannot beat Roma and Inter Milan and then take seven goals against Bologna and Verona ..." At the request of its leaders, the players will stay at the green a few days.