Rome (AFP)

The epidemic of new coronavirus disrupts Serie A: the Italian authorities have postponed to a later date three matches of the 25th day scheduled for Sunday, after the discovery of two foci of contagion in the north of the country.

The matches between Inter and Sampdoria, Atalanta Bergamo and Sassuolo, and between Verona and Cagliari have been postponed, the Italian government announced late Saturday evening.

This decision is part of the draconian measures taken by the Italian authorities, when a total of 79 people were infected and two people died between Friday and Saturday.

Meanwhile, Juventus Turin, who played on Saturday, retained the lead by beating Spal 2-1 with a new goal from Cristiano Ronaldo.

With this success against the red lantern, the Turinese take four points ahead of Lazio Rome, who will play Sunday on the ground of Genoa, and six on Inter Milan, which was to play Sunday against Samp.

The domestic affairs having been put in order, the men of Maurizio Sarri can turn to the Champions League and OL, for whom Ronaldo will of course be the danger N.1.

Because for the 1000th game of his professional career, the Portuguese scored, of course, by taking in the 39th minute an excellent center of Cuadrado.

With this goal, Ronaldo joined Fabio Quagliarella and Gabriel Batistuta, who like him scored in 11 consecutive Serie A matches. In this series, the former Madrid player scored a total of 16 goals. And if he scores again in his next league game, he will be the only record holder.

On a field where it traditionally suffers (a draw and a defeat these last two seasons), Juventus then made the difference on a nice goal from Ramsey, who concluded with a dive the impeccable service of Dybala (60th) .

The game remained open thanks to an unusual game. The Spal has indeed returned to 2-1 (69th) on a penalty converted by Petagna and obviously granted on the sole decision of the video assistant (VAR).

The monitor on which the central referee was to verify the action was indeed out of service, according to images from Italian television.

Sarri was also able to continue to revive Chiellini, who started for the first time since his serious injury in August and who played 55 minutes.

In the evening match, AC Milan missed a great opportunity to get closer to European places by letting Fiorentina come back late in the game (1-1), when it was yet at 10.

Milan, who remains 7th, had opened the scoring by Rebic (56th), then Dalbert was sent off for a fault on Ibrahimovic (62nd), who spun on goal.

Clearly dominated so far, Fiorentina (13th) paradoxically played better. And the local team came back on a penalty obtained by Cutrone and transformed by Pulgar (85th).

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