Internazionale climbed to the top of the Serie A table with a 2-0 home win over Juventus that moves Antonio Conte’s side seven points clear of the defending champions.
Arturo Vidal and Nicolò Barella scored the goals as Conte prevailed in his first managerial meeting with his former player Andrea Pirlo. Vidal headed home Barella’s cross to put the hosts in front after 12 minutes. Barella doubled Inter’s lead early in the second half, running on to Alessandro Bastoni’s through ball to finish a break.
Juve rarely threatened to get back into the game, leaving their bid for a 10th straight title in the balance. “Our ambitions are unchanged,” Pirlo said afterwards. “It’s a misstep against a strong opponent. These things happen. But what I’m disappointed by is the attitude. A side like Juventus must come here with a certain confidence and ambition. We were too timid.”
The result puts Inter on 40 points alongside Milan, who face Cagliari on Monday but make the trip without Hakan Calhanoglu and Theo Hernández, after both players tested for coronavirus.
In Sunday’s action, Lorenzo Insigne scored two and set up another as a stunning first-half performance helped Napoli to blow Fiorentina away, eventually winning 6-0 to go third in the table.
Insigne put Napoli ahead after five minutes, with Diego Demme, Hirving Lozano and Piotr Zielinski also scoring to make it 4-0 at the break. Insigne added a second-half penalty after Tiémoué Bakayoko was fouled before the substitute Matteo Politano chipped in with the sixth.
Simy scored twice as bottom club Crotone surprisingly beat Benevento 4-1 for only their third win of the season, while Filip Duricic scored a stoppage-time penalty for Sassuolo to rescue a 1-1 draw at home against Parma.
Thomas Müller scored a second-half winner as Bayern Munich edged past in-form Freiburg 2-1 on Sunday to extend their lead at the top of the Bundesliga to four points.
Bayern were far from their best and conceded a goal for the 11th successive league game but moved four points clear of RB Leipzig who drew 2-2 with Wolfsburg on Saturday.
Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring after just seven minutes, setting a new league record with 21 goals from 16 matches. The Polish forward hit the crossbar early in the second half, with Leon Goretzka’s rebound saved spectacularly by Florian Müller.
Nils Petersen’s diving header just past the hour mark earned Freiburg an equaliser but Müller drilled home the winner in the 74th minute from Leroy Sané’s lay-off from Kingsley Coman’s cross. Petersen rattled the bar with a thunderous shot in stoppage time but Bayern held on.
Elsewhere, Luka Jovic scored two goals on his return to Eintracht Frankfurt as they beat bottom club Schalke 3-1. Jovic has endured a torrid time at Real Madrid but struck twice in the last 20 minutes after returning to Frankfurt on loan last week.
In Ligue 1, Lyon missed the chance to reclaim first place from PSG with a surprise 1-0 home defeat to Metz. Aaron Leya Iseka grabbed a stoppage-time winner after Lyon’s Karl Toko-Ekambi had a goal disallowed by VAR and Maxwell Cornet hit the post.
Lille kept pace with PSG as Jonathan David’s late winner earned a 2-1 home win over Reims, while Rennes boosted their Champions League hopes with an away win at Brest.
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