Football. ua sums up the twenty-third round of the championship of Italy.

While on all the floors of the standings the struggle intensifies and predict who will go to the Champions League, the Europa League or Serie B is not so easy, Napoli and Juventus are running away from the "pursuers". If everything goes on like this, the fate of the Scudetto will be decided on April 22 in the 34th round, when this sweet couple meets each other in Turin ... Tour Results The game is forgotten - the points remain During the last seven rounds, Juventus and Napoli are only defeating their rivals. They do this in different ways: easily and at ease, with effort, not without the help of strange judicial decisions. However, the fact remains that now all the other teams of Serie A with envy look at the leaders who have practically disappeared behind the horizon and understand that they themselves are strangers in this celebration of life.

As for the flagships of Serie A itself, despite the identical figures in the last rounds, the difference is obvious with the naked eye that Juventus, constantly losing one of the leading performers, does not lose at all as a game. In a duel against Sassuolo, though not enough stars from the sky, but certainly not a "sweet roll" (ask Roma, Inter, Sampdoria ...), Massimiliano Allegri could not count on Dibal, Matiudi, Quadrado and Hededes, but this did not prevent the hosts from shipping the guests seven (!) unrequited balls, three of which are recorded in his account Higuain.

Napoli situation is quite different. Team Maurizio Sarri has long been unable to surprise an opponent with some delights. Everyone knows perfectly well what Innsier will do next and how Kalehon reacts to it, where he will meet with the ball of Mertens and how he will send it into the net. However, due to the speed, which often turns out to be prohibitive for opponents, the "parthenopes" continue to take three points in each match. But the trouble is that Sarri is completely deprived of the ability to maneuver the composition, since there is simply no worthy replacement for the leaders, and, accordingly, there is no plan "B".

When in Campbelli derby against Benevento due to injury had to leave the field to Mertens, Horn's appearance looked as if during a performance from the audience asked to leave someone from the audience to replace the performer of the main role. And it is still good that by that time the guests were in the count, because even those who did not think to give up the "witches" started creating tension at the gate of the Rhine and even earned a penalty, which, however, was canceled after Guilherme's nearly five-minute standing at the "point" - video the assistant proved to the main referee that before the episode in Napoli's penalty area was offside.

How will the current leader of the championship get out, when the games in the Europa League resume - it's unclear. However, already in the next round, Napoli will face a very difficult task - a home match against Lazio (in this case, theoretically can stumble and Juventus, going to Florence).

All that is done - all in favor of Inter Situ situation in Inter, which in December occupied the first line in the standings, somewhat resembles the one that takes place in the Neapolitans - Luciano Spalletti is betting on the same players. That's only if his colleague Sarri found his optimal composition, about the coach "Nerazzurri" this can not be said. At the same time, Inter still worked in the winter transfer market, but the same Rafinha, rented from Barcelona, ??continues to remain outside the starting lineup, although each of his replacements obviously goes to the team.

However, what can benefit the team, in which some leading performers move on foot on foot, while others accuse them of dishonest attitude to their duties, and the coach, with an eyebrow raised, watches the development of the process? Perhaps Spalletti decided that the failure in the middle of the season, which faced almost all of his predecessors, is a normal phenomenon for Inter.

As a result, we have an eight-match losing streak. At the same time in the last two rounds, Inter was forced to share points with Spal and Croton, which periodically change with each other in the 17th and 18th places. But the most interesting is that by losing two points in the last five rounds, the "Nerazzurri" are gradually approaching Lazio, who occupies the third place.

Judges are not to blame - who now?.

After three consecutive victories in the championship, Lazio unexpectedly betrayed two defeats in fights with the teams, which seemed to the Romans quite to the teeth. And if the loss to Milan on San Siro could still be explained without attracting mysticism, the failure of the house with Genoa does not quite fit into the usual scheme.

Yes, the "eagles" owned the initiative, but they could not figure out the perfectly organized defense of the "griffins". But the counterattacks of guests thawed a considerable threat to the gate of Strakosha, and soon after the break Pandev upset one of his numerous former Serie A teams. Despite the fact that Lazio played quickly, this is where their successes ended (is it really so difficult for Lazio to survive the absence of Milinkovich-Savic?).

Looked great Laxalt, who could already be in Rome in January. Uruguayans clearly wanted to show their potential employers (according to rumors, "wolves" will return to negotiations with Genoa on the transition of Diego in the summer), that he can easily rip out the main rival "jallorossi". Toward the end of the meeting, Laxalt competed with his teammate Uruguay Caceres, taking off the ball from the foot with his head, went to the goal and scored. That's only the referees, which coach Lazio Simone Inzaghi constantly criticizes for the fact that their love for the system of the WAP cost his team too many points this season, decided to cancel the goal. Video replay showed that not without reason - Laxalt slightly helped himself by starting his run.

And yet the Uruguayan achieved his: in the second compensated minute the miniature winger outplayed all in the penalty hosts and closed the canopy of Hilemark.

In the meantime, fellow countrymen "biancoel" from Roma were able to interrupt their six-match losing streak, defeating Verona. "Wolves" limited to the only ball that Under scored in the first minute, but in order to take the coveted three points, it was enough.

Now three of the teams claiming two tours to the Champions League share only two points: Lazio - 46, Inter - 45, Roma - 44.

"The one who prevents us - the one who will help us" Almost as tightly became the floor below - in the struggle for a ticket to the League of Europe, for which Sampdoria, Milan and Atalanta are fighting (for example, Udinese, Torino and Fiorentina, but this troika was a little under-matched).

For some reason, many people perceived the words of the coach of the "devils" Gennaro Gattuso on the eve of the meeting with Udinese that the opponent is very strong and in its present form is inferior except that Juventus and Napoli, as a courtesy curtsey to the opponent. However, the hosts proved that only one defeat in the last nine games of Serie A is far from a coincidence.

Despite the fast ball missed from Suso, "Zebriata" did not get lost. Although Giggio Donnarumma for the first time seriously entered the game only in the second half, but then he had to save at least three times his team, showing an extraordinary reaction. And it was necessary to happen that, when Milan was already in the minority after the removal of Calabria, the goalkeeper helped the hosts to win back. Lasagna, catching the ball almost at the front line, at random sent him in the direction of the goalkeeper, but after a rebound from Bonucci the ball hit the head of Donnarumme and was in the gate.

Similarly, Sampdoria, who opened the scoring in the debut of the match against Torino, but did not hold on to victory. Not surprised and the outcome of the meeting Atalanta with Chievo. Given that Chievo, who usually does not pay too much attention to the defense, and who prefers to seek happiness (with varying success) at the goal of others, put five defenders on the match at once, and the extreme midfielders of Giaccherini and Hetemay were more focused on helping the proprietor Radovanovich than helping him released in free swimming Birs and Medzhorini, one scored ball, which became victorious for the hosts, looked quite logical.

As a result, at the moment we have the following picture: Sampdoria - 38 points, Atalanta - 36, Milan - 35.

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