Ibrahimovic wears AC Milan, West Ham continues its march forward
Italy: Correa secures the podium at Inter Milan, Naples is struggling
Inter Milan performed well on Sunday by winning without trembling against Udinese (2-0). The victory owes a lot to a single player, the Argentinian Joaquin Correa, author of a double (60th, 68th) and which allows the Nerrazzuri to react their 3rd place on the Serie A podium. Better still, the Milanese return to four points from Naples before their meeting in the Champions League on Wednesday against Sheriff Tiraspol (9 p.m.).
Fiorentina, for their part, won 3-0 against La Spezia thanks to a triple from Dusan Vlahovic. And if the Florentines stumbled for a long time on an Ivan Provedel of the great days, it was without counting on the Serbian international. He started by registering a penalty shortly before the break (1-0, 44th), before concluding assists from Alvaro Odriozola (2-0, 62) and José Callejon (3-0, 74th).
Faced with Salernitana, 19th in Serie A, Naples had some difficulty in winning. The leader of the Italian championship had to wait for the hour of play to unblock the situation against the teammates of Franck Ribéry volunteers. It was Piotr Zelinski who allowed his family to chain their tenth victory in eleven matches and take three points ahead of his runner-up, AC Milan.
The latter resisted AS Roma well to stay in contact with Napoli. Sunday night the Rossoneri won in Roman lands (2-1) thanks to his game master, Zlatan Ibrahimovic (26th), author of his 150th but in Serie A and the converted penalty from Kessié (56th). The match could have taken a different turn after the exclusion of Théo Hernandez for a second yellow card but Jordan Veretout’s teammates only managed to reduce the mark in added time by El Shaarawy (90th + 3).
England: Leeds wins the duel at the bottom of the table
The 18th Premier League, Leeds, continued to push his opponent of the day, Norwich to the bottom of the standings by winning (2-1). If the first period was rather closed, the meeting was settled in five minutes thanks to a goal from Raphinha (1-0, 56th). Except that Norwich had not said his last word and equalized barely two minutes later through Omobamidele (1-1, 58th). Three minutes later, it’s Rodrigo’s turn to add his two cents to give Marcelo Bielsa’s team the advantage (2-1, 61st), enough to allow him to breathe a little but without shining. .
In the final match of Matchday 10, West Ham outscored Aston Villa on Sunday (1-4). After their victory against Tottenham, West Ham followed with Aston Villa to sign a fourth success in a row. Johnson first opened the scoring to everyone’s surprise (1-0, 7th) before Watkins replied (1-1, 34th). But reduced to 10, Aston Villa quickly suffered the thunder of its opponents of the day who struck three more times on goal by Rice (2-1, 38th), Fornals (3-1, 80th) and Bowen (4-1, 84th). The Hammers take the opportunity to climb to 4th place in the Premier League standings.
Spain: Atlético take on Betis Sevilla
Atlético did not tremble against Betis Sevilla and won (3-0) brilliantly on Sunday. Antoine Griezmann’s teammates delivered a serious performance and it was Yannick Carrasco who opened the scoring (1-0, 26th). The break was made shortly after the hour mark on an error by German Pezzella where the defending ball of Betis took the lead and sent it into his own goal (2-0, 63rd). Joao Felix concluded the match (3-0, 80th) allowing his team to move up to 4th place in the standings, ahead of his opponent of the day.
Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao part back to back Sunday (1-1). Yet in a strong position after the opening of the score from Isak’s penalty for Real, Bilbao went to snatch the draw in added time then reduced to ten. Remiro mishandled Munian’s free kick is offered the equalizer to his opponents of the day. Alguacil players have plenty to feed their regrets.