Juve dig deep to beat spirited Salernitana
Milan: Juventus escaped Salernitana with a hard-fought 2-0 win on Tuesday which brought some positivity after a difficult week while Atalanta are on the heels of Serie A’s leaders following a Mario Pasalic-inspired 4-0 win over Venezia.
Paulo Dybala and Alvaro Morata struck the goals which gave struggling Juve the points at the Stadio Arechi but they stay seventh, seven points behind Atalanta who sit fourth in the final Champions League spot.
“Right now more than ever we need a sense of responsibility. We don’t need to do anything out of the ordinary, we need to do the normal things,” said Giorgio Chiellini to DAZN.
Pasalic hit a hat-trick as Atalanta continued their superb run of form to move within four points of leaders Napoli.
After an impressive win at Juve, Atalanta won their fourth straight league match thanks to Pasalic’s treble and a Teun Koopmeiners strike which puts them level on 31 points with Inter Milan in third. Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta are unbeaten in eight in Italy and cannot be discounted from the title race after swatting Venezia aside despite making a raft of changes from Saturday’s win over Juve.
Norwich deny Newcastle first win of the season
NEWCASTLE: Teemu Pukki denied 10-man Newcastle a first win all season as Norwich earned a 1-1 draw at St James’ Park on Tuesday but wasted a huge chance to deepen the Magpies’ relegation fears.
Newcastle were a man short for more than 80 minutes after Ciaran Clark saw red for pulling down Pukki. However, Norwich fell behind to Callum Wilson’s penalty on the hour mark. Pukki smashed home on the volley to equalise 11 minutes from time.
A point does little for either side’s hopes of beating the drop as Leeds’ 1-0 win over Crystal Palace moved them five points clear of the bottom three.
Newcastle are six points off safety in their bid to minimise the damage before they can turn to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to strengthen in the January transfer window.
Another impressive victory for Maharashtra
MUMBAI: Maharashtra struck twice in the second half to prevail over Jammu & Kashmir 2-0 in a Group E match of the AIFF Senior Women’s National Football Championship in Kozhikode on Wednesday.
Aishwarya Bhonde and substitute Sapna Jaiswar netted a goal each for Maharashtra.
Adv. AR Kudrolli Memorial Football Tournament results: Star of Canara SC 3 (Viraj Shetty, Akshay Rathod, Brendon Picardo) beat Mangalore Blues SC 1 (Akshay Devadiga); Karnataka Amateurs SC 4 (Bhavesh Rao 3, Allen Thomas) beat Jai Bharat SC 2 (Saumil Damor, Rayan Gracias)