Serie A: Juventus, Lazio, And Roma Fight For A Top Four Finish

With three matches to play, the race for the fourth Champions League qualifying spot from Serie A became even tighter on Sunday.

Juventus, Roma and Lazio all have 63 points, while Bologna is one point behind them and Fiorentina three points further back.

Antonio Conte’s Napoli leads Serie A with 77 points, three ahead of second-placed Inter Milan. Atalanta is third with 68 points.

Presently, Juventus sits fourth on the table but only because of a little better goal difference than Roma. Head-to-head is the first tiebreaker when teams are level in Serie A but Juventus and Roma played out two draws, while the Juventus visit Lazio next Saturday.

Roma and Lazio caught up with Bianconeri on Sunday after Igor Tudor´s side played 1-1 draw at Bologna.

The hosts got off to a horrible start when a consecutive errors permitted Juventus to take the lead in the ninth minute.

A shot from Khéphren Thuram squirmed under the body of Bologna goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski, who could to have done better, after Andrea Cambiaso was given too much opportunity to cut inside from the right.

After Juventus had two goals disallowed for offside, Remo Freuler’s close-range effort was inadvertently deflected in by Renato Veiga nine minutes into the second half to give Bologna the equalizer.

Claudio Ranieri´s Roma beat Fiorentina 1-0.

Heading into the match, just one point that make a difference between the two sides but Artem Dovbyk´s diving header deep in first-half stoppage time was enough to keep Roma level with its capital rival Lazio, which won by the same scoreline at relegation-threatened Empoli.

After just 54 seconds, Lazio’s Boulaye Dia scored the game’s lone goal, and both teams were reduced to 10 men at the end.

Lazio defender Elseid Hysaj was sent off in the 76th minute after receiving a second yellow card, and Empoli attacker Lorenzo Colombo was sent off just before halftime after getting two yellow cards in four minutes.

Empoli remained two points from relegation zone.

Atalanta won 4-0 at Monza thanks in part to a first-half double from Charles De Ketelaere, who scored the league’s first goal of 2025.

Third-placed Atalanta moved five points clear of the glut of teams chasing fourth spot.

Monza, which had looked dead for months, was mathematically relegated as the defeat left it 12 points from safety.

De Ketelaere ended his 16-match goalless streak in Serie A in the 12th minute, masterfully handling a ball from Mateo Retegui before beating two players and hammering the ball into the near bottom corner.

Eleven minutes later, Gaetano Castrovilli intercepted Retegui’s return pass towards Ademola Lookman, but both the Monza midfielder and teammate Pedro Pereira simply stared at the ball, allowing De Ketelaere to leap and poke it into the bottom left corner, demonstrating why Monza is being demoted.

Atalanta doubled its advantage straight after the break when Retegui headed on a long ball over the top and Lookman beat Stefan Lekovic, who had only just come on, and sprinted into the area to fire past Semuel Pizzignacco.

Substitute Marco Brescianini capped a dominant Atalanta display with a fourth, two minutes from time.

Meanwhile, Pisa was promoted to Serie A for the first time in 34 years despite being defeated 1-0 at Bari.

Due to the defeat of third-place Spezia, Pisa secured second place in Serie B and, along with second division champion Sassuolo, automatic promotion to the top flight.

Filippo Inzaghi, the World Cup-winning forward and older brother of Simone Inzaghi, the coach of Inter Milan, is Pisa’s coach.