Atalanta's bid for a first Serie A title continued on Saturday with a club-record 10th straight league win, 1-0 at Cagliari, as Dusan Vlahovic saved Juventus with a last-gasp penalty in a 2-2 draw with bottom club Venezia.Juventus are nine points behind Atalanta in sixth after following up on their Champions League win over Manchester City with an awful performance against Venezia which was met with loud disapproval from supporters despite Vlahovic's late leveller.
Nicolo Zaniolo made sure Atalanta will stay top of Serie A this weekend with the only goal in Saturday's 1-0 win at Cagliari which secured a club-record 10th straight league win.The victory moved Atalanta five points clear in Serie A. Closest challengers Napoli can cut the gap back to two points at Udinese later on Saturday, while Juventus are 10 points off the pace ahead of their home fixture with bottom club Venezia.
Napoli conceded top spot in Serie A to red-hot Atalanta on Sunday after falling to a 1-0 home defeat to Lazio and dropping to two points from the summit.Marco Baroni's Lazio are fifth but only three points behind new leaders Atalanta, who sit top of the pile thanks to a club record-equalling ninth straight league win over AC Milan on Friday.
Roma thrashed Lecce 4-1 in Serie A on Saturday to give Claudio Ranieri his first victory since being appointed coach in mid-November.Ranieri, the well-travelled 73-year-old coach who led Leicester to a shock Premier League title in 2016, is Roma's third coach of a troubled season.