Juventus Turin’s Black Monday, sanctioned with a new 10-point penalty for accounting fraud just before their match, continued with a slap in the face at Empoli (4-1) which leaves them in 7th place, far from the Champions League.
Monday morning, Massimiliano Allegri and his players could hope to end the 36th day of Serie A with 72 points to consolidate their 2nd place and ensure qualification in C1. They ended the day with only 59 points, after the announcement of their new penalty and then their rout against a team with nothing left to play (14th).
Arkadiusz Milik embodied this failed evening, offering a penalty to Empoli a few minutes after almost opening the scoring with a powerful header on the bar (13th). Francesco Caputo transformed the offering (18th), plunging into doubt Juve who again cracked three minutes later on a corner concluded by Sebastiano Luperto (21st).
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Turin defender Alex Sandro broke his own team on recovery by losing a ball in his camp which ended up at the feet of Caputo, author of a double (48th), before Roberto Piccoli concluded the evening with a fourth goal looking like a humiliation (90 3rd).
This slap, not really softened by the goal of Federico Chiesa (85th), allows Lazio Rome, back to 2nd place, to secure its place in C1 next season.
For the other two tickets in C1, the fight will continue between Inter (3rd, 66 pts), AC Milan (4th, 64 pts), Atalanta Bergamo (5th, 61 pts), Roma (6th , 60 pts) and Juve (7th, 59 pts), still mathematically in the running but with hopes almost dashed.
In the other game of the evening, Roma suffered at home against Salernitana (2-2). The Giallorossi miss the opportunity to take 5th place, synonymous with the Europa League next season and probably say goodbye to the C1, which does not help OM (3rd in Ligue 1) which will probably go through several preliminary rounds.
But their end to the season is all about the Europa League final against Sevilla on May 31. Final for which José Mourinho is not sure he can count on Paulo Dybala, absent from the score sheet because of persistent pain in his ankle.
