AC Milan nonetheless on high, however Juventus heating up

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A roundup of all the weekend’s leads to Serie A, the place AC Milan remained unbeaten to start out the season, Juventus are starting to hit their stride, and Napoli and Inter Milan had been totally unimpressive…

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Spezia 1-4 Juventus

Alvaro Morata and Cristiano Ronaldo did many of the injury for Juventus, who took dwelling all three factors for a change. The nine-time defending Serie A champions have simply three wins from their first six video games, although they continue to be unbeaten to start out the league marketing campaign. Even nonetheless, they path leaders and fellow unbeaten facet AC Milan by simply 4 factors and seem set for a ruthless run which is able to virtually actually catapult them additional up the desk.

Maybe most encouraging had been the gamers on the scoresheet throughout Sunday’s thrashing of Spezia: Alvaro Morata opened the scoring and Cristiano Ronaldo bagged a brace in his first league look since recovering from COVID-19. Adrien Rabiot received the opposite purpose for Andrea Pirlo’s facet.

Udinese 1-2 AC Milan

AC Milan held onto the highest spot within the desk, which after all means Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the hero and did one thing spectacular.

The 39-year-old scored Milan’s 83rd-minute winner through bicycle kick. OK, so he didn’t fairly attain the heights of his iconic overhead kick for Sweden in opposition to England quite a few years in the past, however he’s 39, so that you wouldn’t anticipate him to take action, would you?

Ibrahimovic additionally assisted Franck Kessie for the sport’s opening purpose within the 18th minute. Udinese pulled degree within the forty eighth minute and regarded like they’d take a degree on Sunday, till Ibrahimovic did what Ibrahimovic does.

Napoli 0-2 Sassuolo

The story right here is as a lot “Sassuolo are second within the desk” as it’s “Napoli misplaced to Sassuolo.” Certain, we’re solely six video games into the season and it’s unlikely to carry for one more 32 weeks, however Sassuolo had been pretty much as good as Napoli had been unhealthy.

Inter Milan 2-2 Parma

Talking of disappointing outcomes for title dreamers, Inter Milan not solely drew 2-2 with Parma however they needed to come again from two targets down and salvage a degree in stoppage time to take action. Former Arsenal winger Gervinho hit Antonio Conte’s facet for a second-half brace earlier than Marcelo Brozovic and Ivan Perisic dragged Inter again to degree phrases inside the ultimate 25 minutes.