Higuain goes past 100-goal tally for Juve

Little joy for Milan against Italian reigning champions while French champions cruise at Bordeaux

Gonzalo Higuain scored a brace to bring his tally of Serie A goals to 101 as Juventus went top of the Italian league with a 2-0 win that plunged AC Milan further into crisis on Saturday.

The 29-year-old Higuain opened after 23 minutes in front of a capacity 80,000 crowd at Milan’s San Siro Stadium and grabbed a second on 63 minutes for the sixtime reigning champions.

It put Juventus provisionally top with 28 points from 11 games just ahead of Napoli on goal difference. Napoli can reclaim top spot at Sassuolo on Sunday as can Inter Milan who are just two points behind the leaders before visiting Verona on Monday.

“Playing at the San Siro is never easy and Milan are historic rivals. In these fixtures, form is wiped out,” said coach Massimiliano Allegri. “It sets us up nicely for the Champions League on Tuesday.”

For Higuain, the century of goals in Italy — after achieving the same in Spain — was revenge for his disallowed effort during the week.

“When they disallowed the goal against SPAL, we said it was my destiny to score the 100th at San Siro! Now it’s 101, not bad,” said the Argentine.

Milan were playing without captain Leonardo Bonucci who

Saturday’s matches La Liga

Athletic Bilbao Atletico Alaves Sevilla

Bordeaux Caen Dijon Guingamp Montpellier Strasbourg

Italian Serie A

Milan Roma 0 1 1 2

0 1 1 1 0 2

0 1 Barcelona Villarreal Valencia Leganes

Monaco Troyes Nantes Amiens Rennes Angers

Juventus Bologna 2 1 2 1

2 0 0 1 1 2

2 0 was completing his two-match ban against his former club.

In Ligue 1, Monaco shrugged off the absence of leading scorer Radamel Falcao as they eased to a 2-0 victory away at Bordeaux, but Claudio Ranieri’s Nantes went down to a rare defeat.

Keita Balde and Thomas Lemar scored secondhalf goals for the defending champions, who close back to within four points of league leaders Paris Saint-Germain.

PSG, without the suspended Neymar, had maintained their unbeaten start to the campaign by brushing aside Nice 3-0 on Friday thanks to a brace from Edinson Cavani and a Dante own goal.

Cavani now has 99 Ligue 1 goals and 11 this season, leaving him just two point behind Falcao at the top of the scorers’ charts. The Colombian scored a hat-trick when Monaco won 4-0 in Bordeaux last season.