While AC Milan plays Salernitana, a team at risk of transfer, the points gap between AS Roma and AC Milan has remained at one point. AC Milan will attempt to capitalize on mistakes made by its rivals.
Armand Laurienté of Sassuolo scored twice and Nicola Zalewski of Sassuolo scored for Roma, who lost 4-3 to Sassuolo at home on Sunday in a disappointing weekend for Serie A teams attempting to qualify for the Champions League. Following Roma defender Marash Kumbulla’s dismissal for violent conduct at the end of the first half, Domenico Berardi converted the subsequent penalty.
Paulo Dybala brought the ten players from Roma back into the game at the start of the second half. However, Georginio Wijnaldum’s goal with 15 minutes remaining gave Andrea Pinamonti a chance to win the game.
Despite AC Milan’s assignment on Monday to undermine Salernitana, Roma and AC Milan maintained their goal differential. Roma will attempt to profit from its rivals’ mistakes. After Saturday’s draw with Bologna, Lazio was two points ahead of Roma and Milan, and Entomb was one point ahead of Bury after its shocking loss to Spezia on Friday.
Due to his two-match suspension, Mourinho will not be on the bench for Roma’s upcoming Serie A match against Lazio. After being directed clear by Inter, Wijnaldum fired straight at Sassuolo goalkeeper Andrea Consigli with less than two minutes left. He almost gave the host group an advantage.
Instead, Sassuolo scored in the thirteenth minute to start a counterattack after Roma misplaced the ball in midfield. Rui Patrcio stopped Pinamonti’s shot, Chris Smalling stopped Davide Frattesi’s shot, and Laurienté scored on the rebound.
In the resulting five minutes, Sassuolo scored two times on account of Laurienté. In spite of this, Roma answered in the 26th moment when Zalewski’s volley diverted off of Consigli and into the objective. When Kumbulla was given a straight red card for kicking Berardi, Roma’s situation got worse just before halftime. After that, Berardi scored on an extra shot.
Dybala scored with a left-handed shot into the upper right corner after Roma received him at the half.
After Sassuolo regained its two-goal advantage almost immediately, Berardi’s shot went over the crossbar. In the 75th, Pinamonti’s goal was scored by Laurienté. Despite the brief interruption, Wijnaldum prevailed.
SCARE FOR JUVE Juventus defeated Sampdoria 4-2 to move closer to qualifying for Europe despite missing a crucial penalty. At the beginning of the year, the Bianconeri were just four points behind sixth-place Atalanta, who were penalized 15 points for making false accounting entries.
Juventus appeared to be on their way to an easy win after Bremer and Adrien Rabiot scored in the first 26 minutes to give the hosts a 2-0 lead. In any case, Tommaso Augello and Filip Urii’s goals in less than 90 seconds brought Samp level in the 32nd minute.
Four minutes after Augello fouled Juan Cuadrado, Duan Vlahovi missed a chance for Juve to score two goals. The game ended in the 64th minute when Rabiot scored his second goal. When Martin Turk, a rookie goalkeeper, stopped a Cuadrado shot to keep his team in the game, the town was also upset.
Matas Soulé scored his first senior goal with a rebound after Turk stopped a Vlahovi header from going wide in extra time.