The shrimp championship waiting for the Champions League. Roma consolidates third place

Rome also flies: 3-0 against Udinese

Meanwhile, with a peremptory 3-0 Roma liquidated the Friulians and consolidated their third place in the classics, beating Milan by three points and Inter by five. A concrete Rome which, chasing away the ghosts of the European defeat against Feyenoord, reiterates that it does not want to miss the Champions League train. Opposite a Udinese in decline, Mourinho’s team makes the most of dead balls by scoring after a penalty shot on the post by Cristante and reiterated on the net by Bove.

Pellegrini, well served by Belotti, and Abraham in recovery, the other two yellow and red goals. A penalty, not exploited by Pereyra, was also conceded to Udinese. However, Rome is booming. And they are all good, including his certain ease in winning penalties as evidenced by his record (9 penalties) obtained so far in this championship. The volcanic Mourinho, with his media activism, evidently attracts them. «Penalty is when the referee blows his whistle», Vujadin Boskov rightly said

Second defeat in a row for Juventus

That Europe is stepmother, it is also demonstrated by the new knockout of the black and whites, defeated by one to zero (goal by Defrei) by Sassuolo. Even Allegri’s team was back from the cup round. And in fact for an hour the game was excruciating. Of an abysmal boredom. With the experiment of the double center forward (Vlahovic-Milik) failed miserably. Going behind, Juve came out of the dark but by then it was too late. It had never happened this year that Allegri’s team had been beaten twice in a row. It’s the third knockout in the last 4 races. There is also a certain travel sickness for the six defeats suffered away from home. Alarming signs. Even though he didn’t shine, at least he used to win before. Now he’s more consistent: he plays badly and then loses.

Amstel Gold Race, new exploit for Pogacar

With a championship now entirely focused on the challenges of the Champions League, other sports will take care of giving us emotions. Tennis with Sinner touching the big shot in Montecarlo. Then the MotoGP with Bagnaia who also crashes in Austin after dominating the pole and the Sprint; finally cycling which, race after race, tells us about the exploits of a new generation of phenomena such as Pogacar, Van Der Pole, Van Aert. The latest extraordinary feat is that of Andrej Pogacar who, after dominating the Pavè walls at the Tour of Flanders two weeks ago, this time signs a new masterpiece by winning the beer classic in Holland, the Amstel Gold Race, after of 90 kilometers in which he shattered the resistance of about fifteen bold people who tried in vain to keep up with him. Last to drop was Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock. But even the British, 28 km from the finish line, on the ramps of Keutemberg, had to let go. Too strong, Pogacar, who signs the eleventh success of the season, the 57th of his career. This Slovenian is a phenomenon, the spearhead of a young and always aggressive cycling, who has already booked himself for the next Walloon France and for the Liège-Bastogne -Liège (next Sunday), the last Ardennes race which will close the cycle of northern classics. Van Der Pole, already winner at the last Roubaix, did not participate this time but, as Pogacar recounted, he was still on track. «He phoned me telling me to attack right on Keutemberg…», the Slovenian revealed at the finish line. Rivals in race, but almost friends in life. It’s the spirit of a new generation that is profoundly regenerating cycling… It’s a pity that the Italians, apart from Filippo Ganna, are not part of this nouvelle vague always on the hunt for new goals. By the way: Andrea Bagioli, first of the Azzurri, qualified sixth with a delay of more than three minutes.

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