Serie A Roundup: Juventus beats Roma; Pulisic helps Milan win
MILAN (AP) — Juventus ended a troubled 12 months on a constructive be aware after beating Roma 1-0 to shut in on Serie A frontrunner Inter Milan on Saturday.
Adrien Rabiot scored and Juventus moved inside two factors of Inter, which drew on Friday.
Juventus began the 12 months mired in scandal after former president Andrea Agnelli and the whole board resigned in November 2022 following an investigation by Turin prosecutors into false accounting, which led to the workforce being deducted 10 factors.
The false accounting case additionally led to Juventus being excluded by UEFA from the third-tier Europa Conference League for this season.
Without the distraction of Europe, Juventus has been preventing arduous on the prime of the Serie A desk and knew it had the prospect to shut the hole on Saturday.
Former Juventus striker Paulo Dybala recovered from harm to surprisingly begin and his workforce virtually took an early lead however Bryan Cristante’s shot got here off the appropriate publish.
Dybala went near scoring towards his former workforce however as a substitute it was Juventus which broke the impasse proper firstly of the second half. Rabiot beat the offside lure to latch onto a cheeky Du?an Vlahovi? backheeled flick and slot into the underside close to nook.
PULISIC POWER
AC Milan additionally ended the 12 months with a victory _ after a troublesome month _ in edging Sassuolo 1-0.
Pulisic netted within the 59th minute after Ismael Bennacer’s through-ball was deflected to the United States worldwide.
It was Pulisic’s sixth league aim of the season.
Milan, which gained solely one in every of its earlier three Serie A matches and was eradicated from the Champions League, was 9 factors behind Inter.
SURPRISE LOSS
Bologna fell to a shock 3-0 loss at relegation-threatened Udinese and missed the prospect to maneuver again into the Champions League spots.
Bologna’s third loss left it two factors behind fourth-placed Fiorentina after the Tuscan workforce’s 1-0 victory over Torino on Friday.
Udinese moved three factors above the drop zone and Claudio Ranieri’s Cagliari, which drew towards Empoli 0-0.
Empoli goalkeeper Elia Caprile saved a late penalty to assist his aspect stay inside some extent of security and Seventeenth-placed Hellas Verona, which misplaced at residence to backside membership Salernitana 1-0.
Salernitana earned its second win of the season. It was two factors behind Verona.
Ademola Lookman fired Atalanta to a 1-0 win over Lecce in his final match earlier than going to the African Cup of Nations with Nigeria.
