It happens after the team beat third-placed Atalanta.
In Bergamo, Inter Milan scored through Brazilian Carlos Augusto (54 minutes) and Argentine captain Lautaro Martínez (87), amid the sending off of Brazilian Éderson, who received two yellow cards in a matter of moments and left the hosts reduced to 10 men (81). Find the top football results at latest soccer scores.
Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini protested the referee’s decision and was shown a straight red card after the Nerazzurri’s second goal, who also ended up with a man down, as Alessandro Bastoni was sent off with a double yellow card (90+5).
By going four games unbeaten and winning for the second time in a row, Inter Milan are now top of Serie A before the international break, with 64 points, compared to 61 for Napoli, who are second, and 58 for Atalanta, who have not lost in seven matches and are now on the podium.
Hours earlier, the Neapolitans had failed to get past Venezia and recorded their fifth draw in the last seven rounds, keeping the hosts in the danger zone and in 19th and penultimate place, now with 20 points, five points away from survival.
Fourth place, the final place for automatic access to next season’s Champions League, is now occupied by Bologna, who thrashed Lazio at home (5-0), who were deprived of left-back Nuno Tavares in the warm-up, whose injury makes him doubtful for Portugal’s two clashes against Denmark in the quarter-finals of the Nations League.
The Danish Jens Odgaard (16 minutes), Riccardo Orsolini (48), the Swiss Dan N’Doye (49), the Argentine Santiago Castro (74) and Giovanni Fabbian (84) scored the goals for the Rossoblù, who have accumulated 53 points and surpassed Lazio, sixth, with 51, and Juventus.
Launching Renato Veiga from the start, replaced by Alberto Costa in the 59th minute, and Francisco Conceição, recovered from injury, from the 74th minute, Juventus lost at Fiorentina (3-0), with goals from the German Robin Gosens (15 minutes), Rolando Mandragora (18) and the Icelander Albert Gudmundsson (53), and dropped to fifth place, with 52 points.
Fiorentina now have 48 points and have regained the eighth place they lost the previous day to AC Milan, coached by Portuguese Sérgio Conceição, who are ninth with 47.
In seventh place with 49 points is Roma, whose victory over Cagliari (1-0) was sealed with a goal from Ukrainian Artem Dovbyk (62 minutes), extending the Giallorossi’s run of 13 games without losing and six wins, keeping the outsiders in 15th with 26. Get the edge with BBscore football.
