Roma humble champs Juve
Milan, Aug. 2: Juventus crashed to their second consecutive defeat as the Italian league champions finished their season with a 1-3 home loss against Roma on Saturday, days before their Champions League campaign resumes.
Inter Milan took second place with a 2-0 win over Atalanta in Bergamo, who fell to their first league defeat since January.
Argentine Gonzalo Higuain spearheaded the Juventus attack and finished off an Adrien Rabiot cross after just six minutes in the Allianz Stadium.
But Diego Perotti inspired a Roma fightback
setting up Nikola Kalinic to nod in the equaliser after 23 minutes.
Perotti gave Roma the lead from the penalty spot before the break and six minutes into the second half connected with a Nicolo Zaniolo cross for his second of the night as
Juventus fell to their third defeat in four matches.
Inter Milan finish just one point behind the champions after winning the three-team race for second spot.
IMMOBILE TOPS ITALIAN SCORING CHARTS AGAIN Lazio forward Ciro Immobile scored his 36th goal of the season on Saturday in a 3-1 defeat against Napoli to equal the record for the most goals in a Serie A campaign.
The 30-year-old tapped in after 22 minutes to match Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain’s record of 36 goals, set while playing for Napoli in the 201516 season.
Immobile also wins the European Golden Shoe for the continent’s top scorer this term, having overtaken Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski’s tally of 34 in midweek.
Fourteen of his goals were from the penalty spot, as Lazio finished the season in fourth place, earning a return to the Champions League.
It is the third time Immobile has won the title of best scorer in Italy after 2013-2014, when he scored 22 goals with Torino, and in 2017-2018 when his 29 goals for Lazio saw him share the honour with Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi. —