Ademola Lookman fired Atalanta high of Serie A with the late, decisive objective in Friday’s 2-1 win over AC Milan which moved them two factors forward of Napoli.
Nigeria ahead Lookman continued his excellent kind by nodding in his tenth objective of the marketing campaign with three minutes remaining on the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo.
The 27-year-old met Sead Kolasinac’s flick-on from a nook to present Atalanta a club-record equalling ninth straight win in Italy’s high flight and additional enhance hopes of a first-ever Scudetto for the historically small, provincial membership.
Alvaro Morata had seemed to have earned seventh-placed Milan a degree in a fiery ambiance together with his Twenty second-minute leveller after former Rossoneri flop Charles De Ketelaere had crashed Atalanta forward within the twelfth minute with a thumping header.
Napoli host Lazio on Sunday night time and Antonio Conte’s group must beat the group who knocked them out of the Italian Cup if they’re to reclaim their slim league lead.
Atalanta now flip their attentions to Tuesday’s go to of Actual Madrid within the Champions League after they can strengthen their case for direct qualification for the final 16 and get revenge for defeat within the European Tremendous Cup in August.
Few could be stunned with an Atalanta win over Madrid, who could have Vinicius Junior again from harm, simply as no-one could be shocked in the event that they have been to be topped Italian champions come Might.
– Inter within the hunt –
Brilliantly taken objectives both facet of half-time from Italian internationals Federico Dimarco and Nicolo Barella and Marcus Thuram’s neat volley within the 67th minute have been sufficient for Inter to beat Parma 3-1.
The reigning champions are 4 factors behind Atalanta however have a sport in hand after having to desert final weekend’s fixture at Fiorentina as a consequence of Edoardo Bove’s harrowing collapse.
Inter are unbeaten in 14 matches in all competitions and journey to Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday understanding {that a} win would nearly actually guarantee a Champions League last-16 with two matches remaining.
“We scored some nice objectives as we speak… The one disappointing factor is that we conceded. We did not need to given how we performed over the 94 minutes,” stated Inzaghi to DAZN.
Parma, who netted by way of a late Matteo Darmian personal objective, sit twelfth in Serie A, however Inzaghi nonetheless picked his finest accessible XI even with an enormous European fixture across the nook, choosing captain and star striker Lautaro Martinez for his three hundredth Inter look.
Martinez has struggled in entrance of objective this season and in addition to having a first-half strike rightly dominated out for offside the Argentina ahead additionally wasted three good alternatives to attain.
The 27-year-old had his head in his arms when he poked broad an excellent likelihood one-on-one with Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki, six minutes after Thuram lashed dwelling his tenth league objective of the season.
France attacker Thuram was born in Parma the place his father Lilian performed for 5 seasons, profitable the UEFA Cup and Italian Cup in 1999 as a part of a star-studded outfit which additionally featured Italian icons Gianluigi Buffon and Fabio Cannavaro.
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