Icardi double lifts Inter Milan to second spot in Serie A
MILAN: Mauro Icardi scored in either half as Inter Milan beat Lazio 3-0 under the rain in Rome on Monday to move ahead of Napoli and into second place behind Juventus in Serie A.
Inter skipper Icardi tapped in the opener after 28 minutes with Marcelo Brozovic adding a second before the break.
The Argentine snatched the third after 70 minutes in the Stadio Olimpico, as Inter with 22 points from 10 games overtook Napoli on goal difference.
Inter and Napoli are both six points behind Juventus who beat Empoli 2-1 on Saturday thanks to a Cristiano Ronaldo double.
“We’re on the right track,” said Icardi after his side’s sixth straight league win. It was also his sixth league goal this season.
DELE ALLI SIGNS NEW TOTTENHAM DEAL
LONDON: England midfielder Dele Alli has signed a new long-term contract, keeping him at Tottenham until 2024, the Premier League club announced.
The 22-year-old joined Spurs in 2015 and has scored 48 goals in 153 competitive appearances for the club. He joins Harry Kane, Son Heung-min, Davinson Sanchez and Harry Winks in signing long-term deals at the club in recent months.
REAL PROBLEMS MOUNT WITH VARANE INJURY
MADRID : Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane is expected to be sidelined for a month with a thigh injury he sustained in the humiliating 5-1 Clasico defeat by Barcelona on Sunday.
“(Varane) has been diagnosed with a muscle injury to the adductor longus in his right leg,” said Madrid in a statement. Striker Mariano Diaz is also set to miss 10 days with a hamstring injury.
SPANISH FA VICE PREZ ARRESTED
MADRID: Spanish FA Vice President Andreu Subies was arrested on Tuesday morning as part of a police operation that also saw former president Angel Maria Villar resign on corruption charges. Subies, the former president of the Catalan Football Federation (FCF), joined the FA (RFEF) in May after Luis Rubiales was appointed president.
“Subies has been detained as part of an active investigation into the diversion of money from the Catalan Football Federation to private ends,” a Spanish police spokesman told Reuters.
Along with Subies, a member of the FCF was arrested on Tuesday as part of Operation Soule.
RANIERI ‘SHAKEN’ BY VICHAI’S DEATH
MILAN: Claudio Ranieri revealed on Monday he had been “terribly shaken” by the death of Leicester City boss Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
Ranieri was hired by Vichai in 2015 and led Leicester to their historic Premier League title success the following year. Billionaire Vichai, 60, died along with four others when his helicopter plummeted into a car park outside the King Power stadium shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday.
“I was terribly shaken by the news,” Ranieri told Sky Sport Italia. “He was a good man and always had a positive word for everyone. His positivity and ability to make everybody love him was clear for all to see. He came into the locker room only to dispense kind words, never to reproach you.”
Ranieri said it was now up to Vichai’s son “who has always been in love with football” to carry on in his father’s footsteps.