Juventus missed the opportunity to go to the Serie Champions League posts on Sunday after being held in a 1-1 draw during its four best Roma hopes. The Igor Tudor team remains fifth, at 56 points with Bologna, fourth in a tight battle for a place in the Europe Elite Club competition. Eldor ShomuroDov won Roma a point four minutes after the break with his sixth goal of the season, canceling a superb volley crushed by Manuel Locatelli shortly before half time. Tudor was brought last month to ensure that Juve in the Champions League, but Sunday’s draw against a direct rival complicates things in a six -seater struggle, Inter Milan and Napoli contesting the title of the League and almost certain of the qualification. Juve cannot afford to miss the Champions League given the recent negative financial history of the club and more than 200 million euros ($ 217 million) invested in the team renewal for the limited predecessor of Tudor, Thiago Motta.
The Giants of Turin will however move above Bologna on the difference in goals if the Vincenzo Italiano team loses at home against Napoli on Monday evening, because Juve is only a place below in the table due to having played one more game.
But only six points separate Fiorentina into eighth and third Atalanta, which only led Juve by two points after falling to a third consecutive defeat, 1-0 at home for sixth place in Lazio.
The Roma are three points behind Bologna in seventh after a draw that took a series of seven championship victories games, but showed some encouraging signs for a difficult sequence.
The rejuvenated team of Claudio Ranieri will face Lazio next weekend in what promises to be a particularly spicy derby, while the Atalanta format welcomes Bologna in another important match.
The candidates for a first League title only a few weeks ago, a third consecutive defeat without scoring left Atalanta to look over their shoulders.
Gustav Isaksen spoke the winner of Lazio’s house after a defensive mixture in the 54th minute in Bergamo, where Atalanta has not won a domestic match since Christmas.
Atalanta did not even score in her last four games in the Home League and the defeat on Sunday felt that an extremely successful era was coming to the end for provincial arrivals, who should lose coach Gian Piero Gasperini in summer.
Gasperini has been at the helm since 2016 and, with the help of the local family in Percassi who guides the club, Atalanta passed the fodder mid-table to the winners of the Europa League.
But Atalanta’s attack football has dried up since the start of the year, and the stars Ademola Lookman and Mateo Retatei were replaced in the 75th minute with the hosts who continued the game after poor individual performances.
The Italian striker Useddled missed the only real chance of Atalanta from the match four minutes before Isaksen’s winner for Lazio.
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