Napoli breached stubborn Verona after 65 minutes when Kalidou Koulibaly headed in from a corner and Jose Callejon volleyed home Lorenzo Insigne's cross. Dybala and Bernardeschi both hit the woodwork for Juve in the first half while Wojciech Szczesny denied Cagliari with two stunning saves. Dybala limped off with a possible thigh strain in the second half. Eventually, though, Douglas Costa beat two defenders on the right and sent over a low cross which Bernardeschi turned in from close range. Immobile took his tally to 20 in the league with his haul against SPAL, scoring a hat-trick of opportunist goals between the 19th and 41st minutes and adding another five minutes into the second half. Luis Alberto got Lazio off the mark in the fifth minute, wriggling through the defence to score a brilliant individual goal, before Mirko Antenucci levelled with a penalty three minutes later.Ciro Immobile now up to 20 league goals for the season. Topscorer in Europe's top 5 leagues.
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Antenucci also scored SPAL's other goal in the 31st minute. Roma, who dropped Belgian midfielder Radja Nainggolan for indiscipline, fell two goals behind against Atalanta after only 20 minutes. Andreas Cornelius and Marten de Roon stunned the Stadio Olimpico, although De Roon was harshly sent off for a second bookable offence on the stroke of halftime. Edin Dzeko's goal in the 56th minute was all Roma could manage in reply. Lorenzo de Silvestri headed Torino in front in the 38th minute, as Mazzarri took his place on the bench 48 hours after replacing the sacked Sinisa Mihajlovic, before a controversial start to the second half.200 - Massimiliano #Allegri have won 200 Serie A games as manager, 100 of these as Juventus manager. Milestones. #CagliariJuve
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Bologna's Simone Verdi went down in the area and was booked for diving but the referee changed his mind and awarded a penalty after consulting with the video assistant referee. However, Erick Pulgar's spot kick was saved by Salvatore Sirigu and Torino went on to score further goals through M'Baye Niang and Iago Falque. The VAR was also used at AC Milan who had a goal chalked off for a foul by Franck Kessie. However, they were already in front by then after Crotone goalkeeper Alex Cordaz punched an attempted clearance straight at Leonardo Bonucci and the ball rebounded in. Massimo Coda hit the woodwork twice before scoring a brace for Benevento as they came from behind to beat Sampdoria.Benevento are on a two game winning streak.
Only Napoli and Juventus have more wins in a row in Serie A right now. What a team. pic.twitter.com/QXdID6UQbg— Coral (@Coral) January 6, 2018
RESULTSTorino 3 (De Silvestri 38, Niang 53, Falque 85) Bologna 0Napoli 2 (Koulibaly 65, Callejón 78) Verona 0Benevento 3 (Coda 69, 84, Brignola 90+1) Sampdoria 2 (Caprari 45+1, Kownacki 90+4)Genoa 1 (Galabinov 80) Sassuolo 0SPAL 2 (Antenucci 8-P, 30) Lazio 5 (Alberto 5, Immobile 19, 26, 41, 50)Milan 1 (Bonucci 54) Crotone 0Roma 1 (Dzeko 56) Atalanta 2 (Cornelius 14, De Roon 19)Cagliari 0 Juventus 1 (Bernardeschi 74) POINTS TABLETeams P W D L GD PtsNapoli 20 16 3 1 31 51Juventus 20 16 2 2 34 50Inter 20 12 6 2 20 42Lazio 19 12 4 3 24 40Ciro Immobile (18 goals/7 assists) becomes the first player in Europe's top-five leagues to have been directly involved in 25 goals this season @OfficialSSLazio #SPALLazio #SerieA
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