Serbian striker Dusan Vlahovic saved the Italian team, Juventus, from a loss once morest its deficient guest Bologna, by drawing 1-1 in a deadly time, during the 33rd stage of the Italian Football League.
Austrian Marko Arnatovic opened the scoring for Bologna (52), while Vlahovic scored the equalizer for Bianconeri (90 + 5).
With this tie, Juventus raised its score to 63 points in fourth place and is under the threat of Roma, which can reduce the difference to three points if it beats Napoli III at the end of the stage, while Bologna raised its score to 38 points in thirteenth place.
“Earlier in the season we would have lost this match, so let’s look at it as a half-full cup,” said coach Massimiliano Allegri.
“We have to clear our minds more,” he added. We missed that following the equalizer, because even though there were only a few minutes left, there was enough time to win the match.”
Bologna succeeded in advancing through Arnatovic, who received a perfect pass from Roberto Soriano behind the defense lines, so the Austrian was alone with Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczny and put the ball in the net (52).
The match witnessed two expulsions from Bologna following the referee returned to the video assistant referee (VAR) following the “old lady” players objected not to award a penalty kick, but the referee awarded a violation from outside the area and the most famous red card for Ivory Coast defender Adama Somoro, following the expulsion of Chilean Gary Medel. to object inappropriately.
In the fifth minute of time, instead of lost, Vlahovic managed to score the equalizer, following a corner inside the area that reached the Spaniard Alvaro Morata, who met it with a scissor kick that Vlahovic followed with a header into the net.
Fiorentina scored an important 1-0 victory over Venezia, which took it to sixth place with 56 points, while Lazio fell to a 1-1 draw once morest Turin and complicated its path in the race to qualify for the Champions League.
On the other hand, Cagliari revived his hopes of staying in the first division with his first victory following five consecutive losses at the expense of its guest Sassuolo 1-0.
Cagliari raised his score to 28 points, in the seventeenth place, six points behind the nineteenth and the eighteenth Venezia, while Sassuolo’s balance froze at 46 points in the ninth place temporarily.
The Sardinian team won the three points thanks to the goal of midfielder Alessandro Diola, who was born on the island, and who carried the colors of Cagliari club since his beginnings with the youth team (42).
In turn, Salernitana proved to be bottom of the standings with the hope of staying by beating its host Sampdoria 2-1, to find the latter in an embarrassing situation as it occupies the sixteenth place, 7 points ahead of the first relegated Venezia.
The first half witnessed the three goals being scored. Salernitana stunned its guest with two goals following 6 minutes from the start of the whistle through Federico Fazio (4) and Brazilian Ederson (6), before Sampdoria reduced the difference thanks to Francesco Caputo (32).
Salernitana defended his first victory since January 9 and his fourth this season, to emerge victorious.
Salernitana can still save his season with 7 games remaining, knowing that the companions of former French international Franck Ribery, who entered in the 65th minute, have two games in hand, and are 9 points behind Cagliari.
Udinese achieved its third victory in a row by defeating Empoli 4-1, advancing to eleventh place with two fewer games.
Milan, the leaders, defeated its guest Genoa 2-0 on Friday, and the second Inter at Spezia, 3-1, while their struggle for the title continues, and the difference between them is two points, with one game less for Inter.