High-flying Juventus put minnows Lecce to the sword on Sunday night, posting a comprehensive 3-0 win at Stadio Via del Mare. It was Massimiliano Allegri's 300th victory in Serie A.
Juventus star Dusan Vlahovic has started to look like a striker who used to tear Serie A defenses apart during his career at Fiorentina. The 23-year-old's second consecutive league brace inspired Bianconeri to a ruthless 3-0 victory at Lecce on Sunday night.
Dusan Vlahovic kept his hot run going by netting a brace within nine minutes, and Gleison Bremer put his stamp on the victory with a late header. So here are our player ratings for Juventus who usurped Inter in the standings with a commanding 3-0 win over Lecce.
Juventus delivered a scintillating second-half performance to deepen Lecce's crisis with an overwhelming 3-0 win at Stadio Via del Mare. After a scoreless halftime score, Massimiliano Allegri's side continued their free-scoring form with a breathtaking second-half display.
Racistic chants coming from the stands have become a frequent theme in Serie A in recent years, with the league proving terminally unable to address this issue. The latest incident occurred last night as Milan players walked off the pitch, only to return after a few minutes and claim an incredible 3-2 win at Udinese.
Sunnday's Serie A program draws to a close at Stadio Via del Mare as bottom-half Lecce entertain title-bidding Juventus. Both sides desperately need three points, albeit for quite the opposite reasons.
Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan fell victim to racial abuse during Saturday night's game against Udinese at the Dacia Arena. Stefano Pioli's side pulled off an epic comeback to take home a 3-1 victory and maintain their faint hopes of catching up with Inter and Juventus.
Daniele De Rossi's managerial tenure at Roma was off to a perfect start as the Giallorossi squeezed past relegation-battling Hellas Verona. It wasn't a top-notch performance from last season's Europa League finalists, but it was enough to earn them a 2-1 win at the Stadio Olimpico.
In the 1954/55 season, Udinese ended second in the Serie A table despite having narrowly escaped relegation in the previous year, and the game that best summed up their phenomenal run was a 3-2 triumph in a six-pointer against the future Scudetto winners Milan played with one man less.
Desperate times require desperate measures, as evidenced by the latest actions of Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis. With the club's Serie A title defense in tatters, the film magnate has stepped up the recruitment program in the January transfer window.
Serie A runners-up Juventus make a routine-looking voyage to Puglia to take on bottom-half strugglers of Lecce on Sunday evening. However, Massimiliano Allegri's side can't take anything for granted, as two first-team stars won't be part of the traveling squad.
Lazio embarrassed themselves in the second semi-final of the 2023/24 Supercoppa Italiana, slumping to a disheartening 3-0 defeat to runaway Serie A leaders Inter on Friday. Former Biancocelesti ace Sergej Milinkovic-Savic admitted the Rome outfit's demolition 'saddened' him, insisting he misses his old club.