Atalanta missed the opportunity to return to the top of the Italian football league with a disappointing 1-1 draw against its newcomer, Cremonese, on Sunday in the sixth stage, while Juventus escaped a first defeat and came from 0-2 down to a 2-2 draw at home to Salernitana with a goal in stoppage time.
Cremonese, returning to the “Serie A” for the first time since 1996, stopped a series of 3 victories in a row for Atalanta, who raised his score to 14 points in second place, equal with Napoli, the leader, who defeated his guest Spezia 1-0 Saturday at the opening of the competitions for this stage, and Milan The third winner beat its host Sampdoria 2-1 on the same day.
In Turin, pressure on coach Massimiliano Allegri increased after Juventus avoided losing in their stronghold against Salernitana before Leonardo Bonucci gave him a 2-2 equalizer in overtime.
Juventus entered the meeting against the background of a draw in the last stage at Fiorentina 1-1 and then fell in the French capital against Paris Saint-Germain 1-2 at the start of its Champions League campaign, which will resume on Wednesday at home against Benfica.
Juventus suffered both times in the first half and performed very poorly, especially in terms of building attacks, to find itself behind since the 18th minute through its veteran former player Antonio Candreva, after a mistake in the defensive coverage from Colombian Juan Cuadrado, who tried to intercept Pasquale Mazzuki’s incursion without success, which allowed For the latter by playing a cross ball around his stomach in the net, the former Inter, Lazio and Parma player, the 35-year-old on loan from Sampdoria.
The task of the Allegri team was complicated when it conceded in the last seconds of the first half through the return to “Serie A”, former AC Milan player Christoph Piontik from a penalty kick caused by Brazilian defender Bremer after touching the ball with his hand in the penalty area (5 + 45).
Thus, Juventus ended the first half behind at home by two goals (or more) for the first time since April 25, 2004 against Lecce (1-3), when Marcello Lippi was supervised by “Opta” for statistics.
Bremer compensated for his slack at the beginning of the second half, which saw the entry of Poland’s Arkadiusz Milik in place of Moise Kean, when he reduced the difference with a header after a cross from Serbian Philip Kostic (51).
Despite the attempts of Serbian Dusan Vlahovic and Argentine Leandro Paredes and Milik who hit the crossbar in the 89th minute, Juventus failed to reach the net again until overtime when he got a penalty kick that Brazilian substitute Alex Sandro grabbed from Dutchman Tony Vilhena, so Bonucci, who collided with goalkeeper Luigi’s brilliance Sebi, but the ball fell in front of him again to follow it into the net (3+90).
And when the match was breathing its last, Milik thought that he snatched the winning goal with a header after a cross from Cuadrado (4+90), so he exaggerated the celebration to get the second warning and be sent off, but this “sacrifice” was in vain because “VAR” canceled it for offside.
And he was not the only Pole who was expelled, but Allegri got the same fate because of the opposition to the referee and Cuadrado for entering into a fight with Federico Fazio, who was expelled in turn (7 + 90).
With this tie, the Turin giant raised its score to 10 points in eighth place, while Udinese became fourth with 13 points by beating its host Sassuolo 3-1, in a meeting in which it was lagging since the 33rd minute with a goal by Davide Frattisi until the last quarter of an hour when he benefited from the expulsion of Brazilian Rowan Tresoldi. At the end of the first half, he turned the tables on the home side thanks to the Portuguese substitutes Beto (75, 3 +90) and German Lazar Samardjic (1 +90).
Lazio broke its knot at home against Hellas Verona by achieving its first victory over the latter in the Olympic stadium since February 2018, and came with two clean goals, scored in the 68th minute, top scorer Ciro Immobile, who was also the scorer of the two goals in the 2-0 victory over the guests in the capital more than four years ago, And in the fifth minute of stoppage time, the Spaniard Luis Alberto after a pass from Mattia Zacani.
Maurizio Sarri’s team regained its balance after a 1-1 draw with Sampdoria and a 1-2 fall at home to Napoli, raising its score to 11 points in sixth place temporarily, one point ahead of its neighbor Roma, who concludes the stage on Monday in Empoli.
After dismissing his Serbian coach Sinica Mihajlovic, who supervised him for three and a half years, Bologna won its first victory this season and came at the expense of its guest Fiorentina 2-1 led by assistant coach Luca Vigiani and with his new coach Thiago Motta in the stands.
Montaza, owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, scored his first historic point in the senior league, by drawing 1-1 with its host Lecce.