Napoli and Inter continue the race, Milan stops abruptly. Sunday in Serie A sees the Azzurri and Nerazzurri win again and consolidate at the top of the standings with full points, obviously together with the ubiquitous Juventus, but also the Rossoneri fall badly against a splendid Lazio, capable of overwhelming the Olimpico match well beyond any expectation. The 4-1 that Simone Inzaghi produced in Montella makes a lot of noise: if this was the first exam to understand the real consistency of Milan, it went decidedly wrong.
“It's a bad defeat, there have been many negative things on which we need to work hard – the Rossoneri coach's bitter comment – We still have to become a team, we haven't trained much together but I know we don't have time. This match told us that we are behind, Lazio today demonstrated that they are more of a team than us and that they are further ahead: we must do more in terms of attitude and personality”.
Above all, Immobile decided the match at the Olimpico, author of a hat-trick that literally annihilated Milan between the first and second half (38', 42', 48'), before Luis Alberto signed the sensational poker ( 50') and that Montolivo made the final score just less humiliating (56').
"I felt that we would have done well – the enthusiastic words of Inzaghi – After the Super cup another great joy has arrived, this team is strong and now everyone will have to realize it". The championship therefore "rediscovers" Lazio and wonders about Milan, but in the meantime it finds itself having to deal with a beautiful and compelling top-level struggle, full of suitors like it hasn't happened for a long time.
Sarri's Napoli, for example, does not miss a beat and shows a hitherto unknown "bad" face. In fact, in Bologna the Azzurri suffered much more than the 0-3 final says, indeed it was the rossoblu who created the greatest dangers at least up to the second half. But then, as happens to the big teams, here is the ability to take the game by exploiting the right episode, which in this case bears the signature of Callejon, good at exploiting Mirante's mistake and giving his team the lead at the first useful opportunity ( 66').
Donadoni's men felt the pinch and Napoli was thus able to round off the result with Mertens (83') and Zielinski (88'), bringing home a very important victory in terms of standings and morale.
A bit like Inter, who silently continue to grind points after points. The 3 won yesterday against Spal are worth the link to the most popular pair Juve-Naples, it is more generally a strong and clear message of growth to all the contenders for the Champions League area. Getting the better of the Ferraresi was less easy than one might think on the eve and the Nerazzurri succeeded thanks to the usual Icardi and Perisic, now completely relaunched by Spalletti.
The first unlocked the match with a penalty obtained by Joao Mario and decreed by the Var (27', Gavillucci had initially given a free-kick from the edge), the second closed it with a splendid volley that made the almost 60 thousand of San Siro (87'). It's still too early to make judgments but certainly this third matchday has given us more than one indication: and once again, as often happens in Serie A, there was no shortage of surprises.
