Inter moved to the top of Serie A with a 2-0 home win against Lazio on Sunday, sealed by goals from Lautaro Martínez early in the first half and Ange-Yoan Bonny after the interval. The result lifted Inter to the summit, level on 24 points with second placed Roma. Behind them are Milan and Napoli, both with 22 points while Bologna are fifth with 21.
It took three minutes for Martínez to give Inter the lead, receiving the ball inside the box, the captain angled it with the outside of his foot into the far corner. Inter doubled their lead and sent the home crowd into a frenzy in the 62nd minute. Federico Dimarco’s low ball across the face of goal found Bonny free at the back post, leaving him with a simple tap-in.
It could have been three when Piotr Zielinski found the net shortly after, but his effort was ruled out for a Dimarco handball in the build-up. Lazio pushed to get back in the contest, with Mario Gila directing a header onto the underside of the bar, but Inter keeper Yann Sommer reacted quickly to gather the ball before it crossed the line.
Roma enjoyed a 2-0 home win against Udinesethanks to goals from Lorenzo Pellegrini and Zeki Celik.
After a mostly even contest, Roma gained the advantage three minutes before the break when Udinese’s Hassane Kamara handled the ball inside the box, allowing Pellegrini to convert from the spot. Celik doubled the hosts’ lead in the 61st minute. Having first played Gianluca Mancini into space inside the box, Celik received the return pass and finished calmly.
Udinese pushed to find a way back into the match, with Vakoun Bayo rising to meet a cross with a firm header that forced Roma goalkeeper Mile Svilar to stretch and tip it away. Just before full-time, Arthur Atta went close to reducing the deficit, but his strike hit the woodwork and bounced out.
Napoli suffered a 2-0 defeat at Bologna on Sunday, with goals from Thijs Dallinga and Jhon Lucumí keeping the Serie A title race wide open.
Bologna faced an early setback when their goalkeeper, Lukasz Skorupski, appeared to suffer a leg injury in the opening stages, leading to the 17-year-old Massimo Pessina making his Serie A debut. But the hosts broke the deadlock five minutes after half-time when Dallinga met a low pass from the byline and, with the outside of his foot, steered it inside the near post from close range.
Lucumí doubled Bologna’s lead in the 66th minute, rising to head in a cross from inside the area. Napoli attempted a comeback, Noa Lang’s effort striking the upright minutes later, but Bologna kept their opponents at bay and closed out the match with ease.
Meanwhile, in La Liga, Real Madrid were held to a goalless draw at Rayo Vallecano as the hosts became the first team to keep a clean sheet in the league against the table toppers this season.
The result moved Xabi Alonso’s side to 31 points from 12 games, opening the door for Barcelona to cut their lead to three points when they play Celta Vigo later on. Rayo are 12th on 15 points.
Augusto Batalla, the Rayo keeper, was the standout player of the match. The Argentinian made several saves to deny the visitors, while the home side defended resolutely to keep their clean sheet.
Kylian Mbappé, who has netted 13 goals to top La Liga’s scoring chart, had a quiet afternoon. The Frenchman was restricted to just one shot as Madrid failed to win at the Estadio de Vallecas for the fourth season in a row.
Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick in a 4-2 win against Celta Vigo as Barcelona closed the gap on Real. The Catalan club took advantage of the leaders’ goalless draw at Rayo Vallecano to move just three points behind.
Lewandowski, who only returned last week with a brief substitute appearance after a muscle injury sidelined him for a month, scored his first goals for Barça since the end of September. Lamine Yamal was also on the scoresheet but Celta did not make life easy and scored first-half goals through Sergio Carreira and Borja Iglesias.
Injury-hit Paris Saint-Germain scored the winner deep into stoppage-time for the second consecutive game to win 3-2 at Lyon and stay two points clear at the top of Ligue 1.
Lyon’s defenders failed to track João Neves at a corner and he headed in from close range five minutes into added time, one week after Gonçalo Ramos headed home in the final seconds against Nice.
After losing against Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday, the PSG coach, Luis Enrique, was without Ousmane Dembélé, Achraf Hakimi, Nuno Mendes and Désiré Doué.
Midfielder Warren Zaïre-Emery, deployed at right back, put PSG ahead in the 26th minute with an angled drive which flew over the left shoulder of goalkeeper Dominik Greif. Lyon equalized four minutes later when Zaïre-Emery failed to track Afonso Moreira’s run behind him following a long ball and the Portuguese striker slotted into the left corner.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who is usually a winger, started up front for PSG and put the visitors 2-1 ahead in the 33rd after Tanner Tessmann lost the ball on the edge of the penalty area. But Lyon equalized again shortly after half-time through former Arsenal defender Ainsley Maitland-Niles.
Nicolás Tagliafico was sent off for Lyon in stoppage time for a second yellow card. Moments later, PSG had a corner and punished Lyon.
