Rome (AFP)
Juventus suffered against Genoa but saved their first place on Wednesday with a Ronaldo penalty in the final seconds (2-1), during a 10th day marked by the fury of Naples and Carlo Ancelotti.
. Juve in extremis
Juventus was in trouble, so Cristiano Ronaldo came on the scene. In overtime, he first scored a goal, canceled for offside.
Then, at the end of the end, he got and converted a penalty, allowing the bianconeri to finally win 2-1 against Genoa Thiago Motta.
Previously, Bonucci had opened the scoring of the head, but Kouamé had equalized with a happy goal. The match ended at 10 to 10 with the expulsion of Rabiot side Turin.
With this difficult victory, Maurizio Sarri's men responded to Antonio Conte's Inter Milan, which had temporarily taken the lead after another complicated success, earned Tuesday against Lecce (2-1). After 10 days, Juventus has 26 points and Inter 25.
. Neapolitan rage
Behind the two leaders, there is Atalanta Bergamo, who took a point in Naples (2-2) after a match concluded in confusion.
The fury of the Neapolitans was born from the equalization of Ilicic in the 86th minute. At the start of the action, the Neapolitan striker Llorente claimed a penalty for a foul Kjaer in the Bergamo area.
After a very long interruption of the match, the referee finally validated the goal of Atalanta, without going through the box viewing images, which showed in fact that Llorente had committed the first fault.
In the end, these five minutes of uncertainty cost Naples dearly, in addition to the opposing equalization, the expulsions of Carlo Ancelotti and one of his deputies and a warning for Insigne.
"What happened, I consider it an attack on my professionalism, my players and my club," said after the match the former coach of Paris SG.
Its president Aurelio De Laurentiis was also furious. "I do not argue the decision, but if the VAR exists, there's no point in creating eight minutes of extra time just because we are arguing, and what is this referee's buffoonery?" who allows himself to put out a gentleman like Ancelotti, "said the leader.
"We're tired, without us, the referees would peel the potatoes, we're tired of paying for this arbitration class," added De Laurentiis.
. It's laughing in Rome
The Neapolitan operation is all the more bad as the two teams of Rome have imposed themselves, dragging Naples to the 6th rank.
In the Top 4 qualifiers for the Champions League, we now find the AS Roma, which will also receive Naples Saturday.
The giallorossi, burdened by injuries this season, finally managed a remarkable course with a single loss in 10 games.
Wednesday, they corrected Udinese 4-0, despite the expulsion of Fazio just before the break, when the score was only 1-0 after the goal of Zaniolo. But in the wake of Pastore, found, Roma added three goals by Smalling, Kluivert and Kolarov in the second period.
Victory 4-0 also for Lazio Rome (5th), who easily dismissed a troubled Torino. Immobile scored twice and consolidated his place as top scorer in the league with already 12 goals.
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