Rome (AFP)
Lazio had lost, Juventus led 2-0 against AC Milan and the Italian championship seemed to be played. But the Turinese suffered an incredible sinking and finally lost 4-2, leaving Serie A still open.
Three goals in five minutes: Ibrahimovic from the penalty spot in the 62nd, Kessie on a personal feat in the 66th and Leao with a great strike in the 67th minute.
In control of the match, dominating, carried by the opening of the magnificent score of Rabiot and a new goal from Ronaldo, Juventus nevertheless collapsed in San Siro, without any warning sign or obvious explanation.
At the end of the match, Rebic even added a fourth goal by taking advantage of a huge error by Alex Sandro to add a little salt to the Turinese wound and make Milan climb to 5th place.
Started on the notes of "Theme of Deborah" by Ennio Morricone, who died on Monday, the match ended with a huge surprise and a status quo at the top of the ranking.
Juve had never conceded so many goals since the final of the 2017 Champions League lost to Real Madrid (4-1). In the league, the last time the "Old Lady" had taken 4 goals was ... in October 2013 on the field of Fiorentina (4-2).
The Turinese did not take advantage of the defeat of their runner-up, Lazio Rome, a little earlier in Lecce (2-1) and therefore keep "only" seven points ahead of the Romans.
However, when Rabiot sent his shot from the left in the window of Donnarumma (47th), the chasm seemed to widen to 10 points.
Long struggling this season, the French midfielder Juventus scored a magnificent goal, the first of his stay in Turin.
After having won a duel on his physical power, he inflicted a small bridge on Theo Hernandez then ran over 40m by sowing two Milanese on the way before deceiving the reverse goalkeeper.
But this goal was therefore useless and the match fell on a detail. In the 61st minute, the referee initially gave the Milanese Rebic a yellow card for a voluntary hand.
Called by the VAR, he found that the striker rossonero had in fact played the ball from the chest and sent it ... on the arm of Bonucci, sanctioned with a penalty. Ibrahimovic transformed him to meet Ronaldo and the match turned.
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This Turin defeat therefore gives a little hope of title to Lazio, who by losing to Lecce (2-1) had apparently lost them all.
"Our dream must continue. We must aim for arithmetic qualification in the Champions League, which was our goal," said Roman coach Simone Inzaghi. It was before knowing that Juve was going to lose.
At the end of the match, the Roman disappointment turned into nervousness and the Spanish defender Patric was expelled for having bitten the defender of Lecce Lucioni, like Luis Suarez with Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup-2014.
The start of the match had already been animated with a Lecce goal from the 3rd minute, canceled for a hand at the start of the action.
In the process, Caicedo had given the advantage to Lazio (5th) by taking advantage of an error by goalkeeper Gabriel, then the author of a very high level match.
But Lecce, who with this deserved success leaves the relegation zone (17th), reacted well.
Mancosu initially missed a penalty, but the Apulia team was not discouraged and equalized by Babacar (30th) before the victory goal signed Lucioni just after the break (47th).
Penalized by a workforce probably too small to meet the pace of this post-containment recovery, Lazio must now also look behind it.
Inter Milan (3rd) is four points before going to face Hellas Verona on Thursday and Atalanta Bergamo (4th), who will host the Sampdoria Genoa on Wednesday, is only five lengths and is in great shape.
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