A Capital Easter. Sunday's results revolutionize the top of the standings, obviously from Napoli down, with the Lazio which confirms the second place and the Roma who takes the third. The Milan he thus remained fourth by the skin of his teeth, while Inter slipped out of the area Champions: Inzaghi, moreover, has to thank Thiago Motta, capable of conquering Bergamo with his Bologna, otherwise Atalanta would have hooked him on 51 points. Juventus, defeated by the Olimpico for the second time this season: getting into the top four becomes so complicated, unless good news arrives from the Coni Guarantee College on April 19th. If that happened, everyone would move down one position, making the fight even more uncertain and unpredictable, but already like this we're facing a crazy championship, in which no one, apart from Naples, can really feel safe.
Lazio 2-1 Juventus: Zaccagni drives the Olimpico crazy, but the Bianconeri are furious with the Var
There is another certainty, to tell the truth, and it is called Lazio, now a very serious candidate for a place in the next Champions League. Victory over Juve is doubly important, both because it was a direct confrontation and for the results of Milan, Inter e Atalanta: Sarri earned 2 points over Pioli and Inzaghi, 3 over Gasperini and Allegri, putting another piece on his splendid championship. Allegri, absent due to the flu, instead returns home with a defeat that somewhat reduces the team's ambitions, at least in anticipation of the fateful 19th April. However, a wrong referee decision by Di Bello and his colleague Irrati at the Var weighs on the result of the Olimpico, guilty of having validated the 1-0 goal by Milinkovic-Savic (38 ') despite the obvious push of the same on Alex Sandro.
Allegri absent due to flu, Landucci speaks: "The referee decides, now we await the sentence of April 19"
“The referee decides, we defer to his decisions – he glossed over Landucci at the press conference -. I can only say that we didn't play well in the first half, but in the second we improved and deserved a draw, but the pitch said something else and we accept it. We must always be optimistic and positive, we await the ruling of 19: we have won 59 points on the field, but now we have 44. Let's wait and we'll start again from there, let's think about race after race".
Sarri doesn't agree: “Was the 1-0 a foul? Maybe, but Juve had to stay in nine"
On the other hand, a lot of joy at Lazio, where there is also something to say to the referee: Cuadrado and Locatelli, in fact, came very close to expulsion, but Di Bello, in an obvious no-night, let it go. Not bad, because the biancocelesti still won the game, managing to find the decisive goal by Zaccagni (53') in the second half, after the momentary 1-1 by Rabiot (42'). “My impression from afar is that Milinkovic's could have been a foul, but I also had others, for example that Juve had to finish with nine players: Locatelli's foul on Immobile was red-carded and Cuadrado too was pardoned, not by chance he was immediately removed from the black and white bench – he declared Sarri – I'm proud of the attitude of the players, of the continuity they had already found in training for some time and which now also comes out in the game, but there are still 27 points up for grabs with tough games to play. It's not easy now, just as it wasn't impossible a month ago."
Turin – Rome 0-1, Dybala from a penalty drags the Giallorossi to third place
Rome also smiles and a lot too. Turin's victory will certainly not go down in history for the show, but it could be remembered as the one that launched the Giallorossi into third place. Whether it was true glory or just an illusion we'll only know at the end, in the meantime though Mourinho it bypasses the Milanese and moves into the full Champions League area, all with a quarter of the Europa League at the door. His matches are always based on the search for results, as are his training choices: yesterday, in the presence of a Turin side that could create problems, he opted for Dybala false nueve with Solbakken and El Shaarawy behind him, leaving out Abraham, Belotti and Pellegrini. It must be said that the match started immediately thanks to the madness of Schuurs, unfortunate in giving away a penalty after just 8' with a real save in the area: Dybala thanked him and converted into a goal. There the Giallorossi were able to play the match they wanted, managing results and energies also in view of Rotterdam.
Mourinho stings Juve: "For me they will get the 15 points back, after all we are in Italy..."
The Champions League chances are growing, even if Mourinho doesn't trust Juventus and its legal affairs, forgetting (voluntarily, mind you) that Rome and Lazio could also have problems. “Are you sure Juve don't have 59 points? In my opinion yes, we are in Italy, so we are fourth – the sting of the Special One -. Matches are won when you score one goal more than your opponent, the goal is the same if you win 1-0 or 5-4. This is the goal of football, of sport, that is to win and give your best trying to exploit your qualities. The opponent that worries me the most is ourselves, because we want to think as a big team and no big team throws away competitions because they think about another match. We have a squad with limits, we're in the quarter-finals of the Europa League which almost looks like a Champions League and we have three games a week, this is very hard for us."
Atalanta - Bologna 0-2, Thiago Motta takes Gasperini away from the Champions League area
Perhaps Atalanta di comes out of the race Gasperini, defeated at home by Bologna by Thiago Motta. Mathematics still leaves everything unchanged, but the opportunity was certainly tempting (the Goddess, by winning, would have hooked Inter and would have moved to just one point from fourth-placed Milan) and was literally thrown to the wind. Thanks also to the rossoblu, God forbid, capable once again of playing a splendid game in the presence of a big name, assuming that Atalanta can be considered as such. It's not a matter of players, given that, as we said yesterday during the presentation, there aren't many who can count on people like Hojlund, Zapata, Lookman and Muriel, moreover without the hardships of European cups, but with a mentality: the sensation in fact, is that the players from Bergamo no longer have the competitive malice they once had, ending up being beaten precisely on that profile by teams like Bologna, good at capitalizing in the second half with Sansone (49') and Orsolini (86').
Gasperini bitter: "Lost opportunity, but we have to be realistic, it's not the Atalanta of other years"
“They have played like this in this period of the championship, determined by an episode – commented by Gasperini -. The first part was good, when we tried to push harder there were some difficulties. We knew we had an opportunity but we have to be realistic, we have staffing difficulties, we have lost two players on the flanks and when you have difficulties in midfield the defense suffers. It's not the Atalanta of other years, being still in the European zone is a great merit and I say this after a lost game. The expectation from the outside was different, but not mine, I only give credit to my team for the championship played”.
