Rome (AFP)

Disappointing in the Italian Cup, Juventus was more convincing for its return to the league on Monday during the 27th day and went on to win 2-0 in Bologna, thanks in particular to a penalty from Ronaldo.

Very average in the semi-final return from the Cup against AC Milan, with a missed penalty, then again mediocre in the final against Naples, the Portuguese regained his efficiency by opening the scoring in the 23rd minute, on a penalty obtained by De Ligt.

While the debate about his best position is open and his coach Maurizio Sarri would like to fix him on a more axial position, he has also been dangerous twice starting from the left, his favorite area.

In progress as his team, Ronaldo still seemed still far enough from his best level. But by finding a little freshness, he and his family, including Rabiot, holder, finally controlled Bologna quite calmly.

The second, superb, bianconero goal was scored by Dybala in the 36th minute with an untouchable skylight strike, after a climb by De Ligt and a heel relay from Bernardeschi.

Bernardeschi also hit the post in the second period and the only bad news from Turin came from the side sector.

After Alex Sandro last week, De Sciglio was injured on Monday and Danilo, who replaced him, was expelled for two preventable warnings in a quarter of an hour.

Sarri only has Cuadrado as regular side and Matuidi may have to help out again at the rear left post.

Meanwhile, the Turinese provisionally take four points ahead of Lazio Rome (2nd), who will play Wednesday in Bergamo against Atalanta (4th) at the summit of this 27th day. Inter Milan (3rd), which receives Sassuolo on Wednesday, is nine lengths.

- Ribéry returns -

In the other matches of the day, AC Milan easily won on the lawn of Lecce (4-1) and therefore did not suffer from the absence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, while Fiorentina was held in check by Brescia (1-1), despite the return of Franck Ribéry.

Against Lecce, relegation (18th), Milan opened the scoring by Castillejo in the first period (26th) before being briefly caught on a penalty from Mancosu (54th).

But this equalizing goal finally triggered the best Milan period, which immediately regained the advantage by Bonaventura (55th), then widened the gap via Rebic (57th) and Leao (72nd).

Seventh in the standings, the Rossoneri can still believe in Europe and await the now imminent return of Ibrahimovic, injured in the right calf.

For his part, Ribéry had been absent since late November before making an unexpected comeback as a holder on Monday against Brescia.

After a very successful start to the season with Fiorentina, the Frenchman had seriously injured his right ankle during a match against Lecce, and had to be operated on afterwards.

On Monday, he played 85 minutes at an already correct level, but could not prevent a disappointing new result from the Florentine team (1-1) against Brescia.

The red lantern opened the scoring on a penalty from Donnarumma (15th), before the equalization signed Pezzella (29th), the captain of the Viola.

The expulsion of Caceres forced Fiorentina (13th) to play 10 for 20 minutes. The expulsion also forced former Lyonnais Ghezzal to leave in the 72nd minute, five minutes after coming into play.

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