European roundup: Lazio thrash Milan while Kimmich saves Bayern
Lazio humbled Milan with a superb 4-0 home victory in Serie A on Tuesday, extending the champions’ winless run to five games in all competitions.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Mattia Zaccagni, Luis Alberto and Felipe Anderson were on target to send Maurizio Sarri’s side into third place, one point behind Milan and 13 behind the leaders Napoli.
Milan continued their recent poor form after they were hammered 3-0 by rivals Internazionale to lose the Italian Supercup last Wednesday, and crashed out of the Coppa Italia in the last 16 against 10-man Torino the week before.
In Germany, Bayern Munich’s equaliser to rescue a 1-1 draw against Cologne, keeping his team four points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.
The German champions, chasing a record-extending 11th league title, had possession but were far less effective than their opponents who looked to be snatching the three points courtesy of Ellyes Skhiri’s fourth-minute volley at the far post. But Kimmich scored with a long-range effort to lift leaders Bayern, who have now drawn their last two league matches, to 36 points.
Earlier, RB Leipzig fired four firsthalf goals past bottom club Schalke en route to a 6-1 demolition to climb into second place and stretch their unbeaten run to 15 matches across all competitions. Leipzig, who face Manchester City in the Champions League last 16 next month, overran the home side in the opening minutes and had already scored twice after a quarter of an hour. Wolfsburg also ran riot away from home, winning 5-0 against strugglers Hertha Berlin to lift themselves above Dortmund into the European places.