Serie A – Matchday 34 scoreboard: Inter celebrating, Lazio flying, bad Juventus-Milan

Simone Inzaghi’s Inter wanted to give another smile to its fans. Another joy right before the party organized in the streets of central Milan. Double from Calhanoglu, Torino knocked out, mission accomplished and victory number 28 out of 34 days. The Nerazzurri, now at 89 points, sealed a dominated championship with yet another three-point shot, in front of the first all-female refereeing trio in the history of Serie A. Then the champions’ party broke out, with the open bus and the arrival in the Duomo in front of 300,000 Nerazzurri. A perfect Sunday.

Viola is revived. After the elimination in the Italian Cup, the Italian’s 11 battered Sassuolo at home, scoring five goals. A 5-1 which allows Fiorentina to catch up with Napoli in eighth place and remain in the running for qualification for the next European cups. Nico Gonzalez, Martinez Quarta, Sottil and Barak are highlighted. Nice and rounded victory, the right springboard before the Conference League semi-final.

Third consecutive victory, fourth home success in a row. The signing of the former Zaccagni knocks out Verona and allows Tudor’s Lazio to rise to 55 points, just four behind Roma who are fifth in the standings. Everything is still open for qualification for the next Champions League: morale in the Biancoceleste home is high, the group believes in it, the Croatian coach has brought ideas and enthusiasm. It will be a tough ending for Lazio, who will now really try to write a new great undertaking.

57 points. Two minutes away from Roma and with a game to recover. The 2-0 against Empoli – which follows the 4-1 in the Cup against Fiorentina – makes the week of Gasperini’s Atalanta magical, who are now really starting to smell the Champions League. Europa League semi-final, championship final with a direct clash to play, Italian Cup final in Rome against Juventus. Very hot last month for a hungry and fit Goddess. There is an air of triumph in the Bergamo area.

A 1-1 at home and a 2-2 in Naples. Two draws, which came from a comeback, which kept the gap between the rossoblu and the giallorossi unchanged. However, two points that were useful to both of us, given how things had turned out. Motta’s team thus celebrates their mathematical return to Europe after 22 years, stopping Udinese thanks to Saelemaekers’ free kick (after Beukema’s expulsion). The Capitoline players find Abraham again and reduce Napoli’s performance, stopped several times by Svilar’s saves. There is still a lot at stake, but both Bologna and Roma want to fight to the end.

An ugly 0-0 between the second and third teams in the championship. After an emotionless first half full of technical errors, to tell the truth Juventus tried in every way to undermine the resistance of a Milan in full emergency. But in the end the Bianconeri’s aiming errors and Sportiello’s saves sealed a draw that was more favorable to the Devil. The distance from Inter in the standings is now abysmal for both. Allegri and Pioli have understood that something is changing and thus they could have closed their last confrontation as coaches of Juventus and Milan.

If the away performances continue to be this way, there is a real risk that things will get complicated in the end. Nicola’s Empoli loses in Bergamo (and that’s fine, God forbid) and sees their lead over Udinese narrow to two points. The problem is that away from Castellani the Tuscans continue to struggle and the calendar of the last four days does not seem so easy. Tension and attention.

Until Krstovic’s feat it had been a terrifying match. Inaccuracies, errors, slow pace. A written 0-0. Then the Montenegrin upset the balance, but Pessina’s 96th-minute penalty nipped Via del Mare’s celebration in the bud. A 1-1 difficult to analyse: it all happened in injury time, before that it had been one of the worst matches of the entire tournament.

Alberto Gilardino’s team was too superior. The Sardinians, decimated by absences (some very heavy such as Dossena, Luvumbo, Mina and Viola) collapsed at Ferraris. A clear and deserved 3-0 for Grifone and a sudden slowdown for Ranieri’s team, which has a 3-point advantage over third-to-last place. Cagliari has always struggled away from home in this tournament and this is why in the next round at the Unipol Domus against Lecce we will certainly see another team.

The first team to move down a category. Serie A 23/24 says goodbye to Salernitana, who also lose 3-0 to Frosinone and are arithmetically relegated to Serie B. A bad ending for the Campania team, who between the Dia case and several changes on the bench, have never managed to make the breakthrough to this cursed season. In the summer someone even talked about Europe, evidently overestimating a squad unsuitable for the top tournament. The Granata fans dreamed (and deserved) something more than this failed championship.

Psychodrama now appears very close. The neroverdi are overwhelmed in Florence and remain stuck at 29 points, penultimate in the standings and with the quicksand of Serie B starting to show. 11 goals conceded in the last three, two goals conceded between Lecce and Fiorentina. Sassuolo is in enormous difficulty, especially from a mental point of view. And Ballardini was unable to give the shock hoped for by Carnevali and the Emilian management. Looking at the calendar and opponents, he needs a miracle to avoid the worst…