Serie A Roundup: Lazio held to draw against struggling Verona

MILAN (AP) — Lazio was held at relegation-threatened Hellas Verona to 1-1 on Monday to hamper its hopes of consolidating its place within the high 4 in Serie A in a decent race for the Champions League spots.

Cyril Ngonge scored his first purpose for Verona on his first begin after becoming a member of final month, to cancel out Pedro’s opener.

Lazio inched some extent above Atalanta and AC Milan, which each misplaced on the weekend. It was some extent behind Roma and 4 behind second-placed Inter Milan.

Verona moved to inside 4 factors of security.

Lazio hoped to maneuver into third place in Serie A.

It broke the impasse in beautiful style on the stroke of halftime. Pedro performed a one-two with Danilo Cataldi, gathered along with his again to purpose and swivelled to curve a powerful shot into the highest left nook.

Verona leveled six minutes after the break when Darko Lazovi? whipped in a free kick for Ngonge to move in on the close to publish.

After establishing the equalizer, Lazovic virtually turned it round utterly two minutes later however his fierce effort got here off the best publish.

LAST KICK

Monza used the final kick of the match — a penalty — to grab a 2-2 draw at house to Sampdoria.

Samp thought it was heading for its first win because the begin of the the 12 months after Manolo Gabbiadini netted in every half.

But deep in stoppage time, Nicola Murru hauled down Andrea Petagna and Matteo Pessina transformed the ensuing spot kick 9 minutes into added time.

Petagna scored the primary equaliser for Monza within the thirty second.

Samp was second from final within the standings, eight factors from security. It had misplaced its earlier 5 matches with out scoring a purpose.