AC Milan, left behind in the race for the Italian champion title, had to settle for a point against Genoa (0-0) as it celebrated its 125th anniversary at San Siro on Sunday.
Barring a miracle, Milan should not add a twentieth “scudetto” to its XXL record this year, detailed during an impressive sound and light show before kick-off in the presence of Marco van Basten, Franco Baresi and other Rossoneri legends.
Paulo Fonseca’s team dominated Patrick Vieira’s Genoa and came up against the Genoa crossbar on a shot from Alvaro Morata (78th), but rarely excited his fans who whistled copiously as he left the ground.
The Portuguese coach, deprived of his injured leader Christian Pulisic, had relegated Théo Fernandez to the bench, whose behavior he had criticized in the middle of the week.
Even the entry of prodigy Francesco Camarda on the hour mark did not wake up a team lacking inspiration which has only pocketed six points in its last five Serie A matches. Milan has slipped to 8th place (23 pts, one match in hand), fourteen lengths behind the leader Atalanta.
Happy Sunday for Bologna, Roma are not coping
The Lombard club was overtaken by Bologna (7th, 25 pts) which, earlier, had ended Fiorentina’s series of eight consecutive victories, winning 1 to 0. The “Viola” is 4th (31 pts ), but can still move down one place if Lazio (5th, also 31 pts) beats or draws against Inter Milan (3rd, 31 pts) Monday at the end of this 16th day.
AS Roma fell from high on the field of promoted and poorly ranked Como who beat them 2-0 with two goals scored in added time. Since the arrival in mid-November of Claudio Ranieri, his third coach this season, Roma (12th, 16 pts) have lost three of their last four matches. It is now only two points ahead of the first relegated side, Cagliari (18th, 14 pts).
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