Rome (AFP)

Cristiano Ronaldo scores and Juventus wins: Serie A had a surprise evening Saturday with the victory of the Turin club against Bologna (2-1) on the eighth day, which confirms the status of leaders of the Portuguese and his own.

The Turinese, however, did not have the easy part and the last two minutes were hot for them, with a suspect hand of De Ligt in its surface and a double action at the last second, on which Juve was saved by the transversal then by Gianluigi Buffon, soon 42 years old, author of a young man stop before Federico Santander.

But the bianconeri have also had long periods of clear domination and their success, the seventh in eight league games this season, is deserved.

He came from two strong men from the start of the Turin season: Cristiano Ronaldo and Miralem Pjanic. The Portuguese, who had received before the kickoff a N.700 flocked jersey as his career goals, added the 701st to his collection with a dry shot from the right in the 19th minute.

Bologna, although suffocated by the pace of Turin, found a way to equalize quickly on a great end of the defender Danilo (26th). But in the 54th minute, Pjanic restored the advantage to Juve with a shot of the right after a confused action.

With this victory, Juventus, with which Rabiot was once titular instead of Matuidi, temporarily takes four leadings ahead of Inter Milan, who will play Sunday on the field of Sassuolo.

Behind, Naples (4th) came closer to the podium thanks to his 2-0 win against Hellas Verona, but also the lightness of Atalanta Bergamo, who let slip a lead of three goals on the ground of Lazio Rome (3-3).

- The Atalanta strikes -

Before going to Salzburg Wednesday for the rest of the Champions League, Naples had to handle current affairs in Serie A with the reception of the team Verona (13th), rather tough this season.

The trend was confirmed at the San Paolo stadium and Carlo Ancelotti's men did not have fun before taking the measure of their opponents.

Finally, it was the Polish forward Arkadiusz Milik who materialized the Neapolitan superiority with a double (37th, 67th) scored on assists Fabian Ruiz and Lorenzo Insigne.

With this success, Naples returns to only one point of Atalanta Bergamo (3rd), which ruined a great advantage in Rome against Lazio, since it led 3-0 in the 69th minute.

With these three goals in advance, have Bergamo players let their minds wander around the middle of the week and their Champions League match in Manchester against Pep Guardiola's City?

In any case, they did not know how to respond to the burst of Lazio, who had been totally dominated for an hour and knocked out by the double of Luis Muriel (23rd and 28th) and the goal of "Papu" Gomez (37th) .

The revolt left in less than a minute, the time for Ciro Immobile to score on penalty (69) and for Correa to reduce the score to 3-2 (70).

Then, the Romans pushed and ended up equalizing on a second penalty, obtained and transformed by Immobile in additional time (3-3, 90 + 2).

Atalanta remain on the podium, but the two points left in Rome could weigh in the race for the Champions League. Lazio, for its part, goes back to 6th place, four points from Naples.

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