The trio is 1 point behind the leader from Naples, who was stuck at 0-0 against Como on Saturday.
Milan took the lead in the 39th minute through Strahinja Pavlovic, who immediately took advantage of the first chance of the match. The 24-year-old Serbian scored from a cross from Rafael Leão. Just before half-time, Youssouf Fofana could even have put his team at 2-0, but he shot wide.
Leão himself failed to offer Milan any more certainty after more than an hour. After a misunderstanding in the Roman defense, the Portuguese was able to shoot freely, but he hit the defender Mario Hermoso who was stationed on the line.
Roma did make attempts to threaten Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan. The team only really succeeded in this after a handball in Fofana’s penalty area. But Maignan saved the penalty taken by Paulo Dybala.
Piotr Zielinski (second from left) opens the scoring with a wonderful goal. © ANP/HH
Internazionale catches up with Napoli, partly thanks to Piotr Zielinski’s wonderful goal
Internazionale barely benefited from the loss of points to leader Napoli on Saturday in the away match against Hellas Verona. An own goal in injury time by the Dane Martin Frese gave the Milan club the 2-1 victory.
Piotr Zielinski gave Inter the lead after fifteen minutes with a wonderful goal, Giovane equalized just before half-time.
With substitute Denzel Dumfries inside the lines, it was still a long wait for the winning goal. Stefan de Vrij remained on the bench at Inter.
| Position | Team | P | GS | W | V | G | DS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | +8 | |
| 2 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | +12 | |
| 3 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | +8 | |
| 4 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | +5 | |
| 5 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | +8 | |
| 6 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | +4 | |
| 7 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | +6 | |
| 8 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | -3 | |
| 9 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |
| 10 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| 11 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | +5 | |
| 12 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | -6 | |
| 13 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | +4 | |
| 14 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | -3 | |
| 15 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | -6 | |
| 16 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -7 | |
| 17 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | -7 | |
| 18 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -10 | |
| 19 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | -9 | |
| 20 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | -9 |