Rome (AFP)

The "finish line" is in sight: Inter Milan won Sunday against Cagliari (1-0) their eleventh consecutive victory to preserve their comfortable lead over their pursuers, also all winners like Juventus and Napoli.

In this 30th day of Serie A without clash between direct rivals in the battle for the Champions League, the Top 4 candidates, like Milan (2nd) in Parma (3-1) on Saturday, enforced the hierarchy: Juve against Genoa (3-1), Naples in Genoa against Sampdoria (2-0) and Lazio victorious on the line in Verona from Hellas (1-0).

In the evening, Atalanta travels to Fiorentina to defend its 4th place provisionally taken by Napoli.

- Inter at full speed -

Inter Milan stumbled for a long time on the relegation Cagliari before finding the loophole at the entrance of the last quarter of an hour after the decisive entry into play of Achraf Hakimi: the Moroccan international put the turbo on the right after a relay with Romelu Lukaku to offer the winning goal to Matteo Darmian (77th).

Eleventh consecutive victory in Serie A - in the eleven matches of the second leg - and sixth in a row with only one goal away for this compact and pragmatic machine designed by Antonio Conte.

"We keep our foot on the accelerator, we are not a team that can do calculations," said the coach, whose team keeps its eleven points ahead of its runner-up, Milan.

The first scudetto since 2010 always seems closer: "We are starting to see the finish line, but it is not yet reached", underlined Conte, who recognizes however that his Inter "can no longer hide behind his little one finger".

- Full box for the C1 -

Behind Inter, six teams are competing for the other three qualifying tickets for the C1.

Juventus (3rd) assured against Genoa, not without fear, before their shock against Atalanta next weekend in Bergamo.

Dejan Kulusevski (4th) and Alvaro Morata (22nd) started the afternoon perfectly, but the Turinese still needed a third goal from Weston McKennie (70th) in the second half to seal a victory that the Genoese have. tried to challenge at the start of the second period, reducing the mark by Gianluca Scamacca (49th).

Ronaldo, silent and frustrated by the badly negotiated cons by the Turinese at the end of the match, appeared annoyed at the final whistle: "He was upset because he did not score, these are normal things", played down Andrea Pirlo, retaining the good first half of the Bianconeri.

Victory also logical for Naples, who opened the scoring in the first period by Fabian Ruiz at the end of a nice collective movement then made the break on a tumble of Victor Osimhen (87th).

The Neapolitans, however, also trembled a little, with in particular an equalizer from Sampdoria on a header from Morten Thorsby finally refused after intervention by the VAR for a fault by the Norwegian (75th).

A shock also awaits Napoli next weekend with the reception of the leader nerazzurro.

- Focus on Serie B -

At the bottom of the standings, Torino - 17th and first non-relegation - struck a nice blow by winning Saturday in Udine (0-1).

The "Toro", with 5 pts ahead and one game less, takes a little margin on the relegation zone where Cagliari (18th), Parma (19th) and Crotone (20th) are more than ever stuck. beaten.

But "if we redo what we did today (against Inter, note), we have our chances", wants to believe the Sardinian coach Leonardo Semplici, before the duel against Parma next weekend.

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