EURO ROUND-UP

Ciro Immobile produced a sensational first-half hat-trick as Lazio crushed Spezia 6-1 in Serie A.

Daniele Verde fired Spezia ahead after just four minutes, before the Immobile show took over, with goals after five and 15 minutes, plus one at the end of the half.

Further efforts followed from Felipe Anderson, Elseid Hysaj and Luis Alberto, with Kelvin Aldou seeing red for the visitors.

Leonardo Mancuso’s 21st-minute strike gave Empoli a 1-0 win at Juventus, who were without the Manchester Unitedbound Cristiano Ronaldo.

Bayer Leverkusen cemented top spot in the Bundesliga with a 4-1 win at Augsburg, helped by two own goals inside the first 12 minutes.

Iago and Florian Niederlechner both put through their own net, before the latter scored at the right end to reduce the deficit. But late goals from Patrik Schick and Florian Wirtz sealed a comfortable success for the visitors.

Hot on their heels at the top are Bayern Munich and they hammered Hertha Berlin 5-0, with Robert Lewandowski bagging a hat-trick. Thomas Muller and Jamal

Musiala were also on target.

Freiburg remain in third thanks to Woo-yeong Jeong’s early brace in their 3-2 win at VFB Stuttgart.

Ander Barrenextea’s goal late in the first half was enough for Real Sociedad to claim their second win from two La Liga outings as they beat Levante 1-0.

Inaki Williams grabbed the winner as Athletic Bilbao won 1-0 at Celta Vigo.

Sevilla needed a Youssef En-nesyri goal five minutes before the break to earn them a 1-1 draw at Elche, for whom Enzo Rocco had fired them ahead early on.

In Ligue 1, Nice beat Bordeaux 4-0, with Amine Gouiri scoring twice.