European football: Barça retake top spot, Parma stun Milan to deal title blow | European club football

Barcelona returned to the highest of La Liga with a 3-0 victory over relegation-threatened Levante as Marc Bernal, Frenkie de Jong and substitute Fermín López struck at Camp Nou.

Final season’s champions moved to 61 factors from 25 video games, one forward of Actual Madrid after their rivals’ defeat by Osasuna on Saturday. Barça had slipped to second after final week’s 2-1 loss to Girona however hardly ever appeared troubled by a Levante facet second from backside on 18 factors.

Hansi Flick’s group led within the fourth minute when 18-year-old Bernal slid in from shut vary after Eric García surged down the left and crossed low. De Jong made it 2-0 within the thirty second, arriving unmarked to show in João Cancelo’s arching cross, additionally from the left.

Barcelona managed the second half, with Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha lacking probabilities earlier than López got here off the bench to seal it, drilling a left-footed shot from the sting of the field in off the put up within the 81st minute.

In Sunday’s later video games, Villarreal got here from behind to beat Valencia 2-1 and finish the weekend third due to Pape Gueye’s spot-kick late in first-half stoppage time. Celta Vigo are sixth and added to Mallorca’s relegation troubles with a 2-0 victory that got here by two late Iago Aspas targets – the primary an Eighty fifth-minute penalty, and the second deep in stoppage time.

In Serie A, Mariano Troilo scored an Eightieth-minute winner as Parma shocked Milan with a smash-and-grab 1-0 victory at San Siro, dealing a big blow to the Italian giants’ hopes of reeling in rivals Inter. Milan’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek was additionally hospitalised following a collision with opposing goalkeeper Edoardo Corvi.

The defeat, a primary in 25 league video games, leaves second-placed Milan on 54 factors from 26 video games, 10 factors behind metropolis rivals Inter with 12 rounds remaining.

Early within the recreation, Loftus-Cheek was struck on the top and bloodied after a cross into the world. He was stretchered off with a neck and head brace, and studies in Italy stated he had sustained damaged enamel and was being examined for head trauma.

After the restart, Milan had the higher of the probabilities in a recreation that lacked clearcut alternatives and struck the put up by Rafael Leão, whose volley hit the bottom of the put up and flashed agonisingly throughout the face of purpose.

Parma took the lead when Troilo headed in from a nook, however the referee Marco Piccinini initially disallowed it for a block on the Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan. Nevertheless, after being directed to assessment the footage by VAR, Piccinini overturned his choice.

Atalanta’s Lazar Samardzic scored a late winner at dwelling as they fought again to beat third-placed guests Napoli 2-1, extending their unbeaten league run to 9 video games. Napoli’s loss left them 14 factors adrift of Inter.

Genoa eased their relegation fears with a 3-0 dwelling victory over 10-man Torino, overtaking their opponents within the course of. First-half targets from the London-born Brooke Norton-Cuffy and Caleb Ekuban got here earlier than Emirhan Ilkhan’s purple card on the stroke of half-time. The hosts’ Brazilian ahead Júnior Messias then made the factors protected seven minutes from time.

Three second-half targets gave Roma a 3-0 win at dwelling towards Cremonese. Midfielder Bryan Cristante opened the scoring simply earlier than the hour mark, earlier than Evan Ndicka and Niccolò Pisilli made the consequence protected.

In Germany, ahead Deniz Undav scored late to salvage a 3-3 draw for Stuttgart at backside facet Heidenheim because the Bundesliga’s relegation scrap and race for Champions League qualification converged.

Stuttgart stayed fourth within the final qualification spot for Europe’s premier membership competitors, however missed the prospect to maneuver 4 factors above fifth-place Leipzig, who have been held by Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.

St Pauli boosted their probabilities of survival with a 2-1 dwelling win over relegation rivals Werder Bremen that lifted the Hamburg-based membership above the guests into the relegation playoff spot. The Japan midfielder Joel Chima Fujita scored what proved to be the winner with a low shot contained in the far nook within the seventieth minute.

Within the Netherlands, Raheem Sterling made his debut for Feyenoord, approaching for the final half-hour of their slender 2-1 dwelling victory over struggling Telstar within the Eredivisie.

The 31-year-old was given a rapturous welcome at De Kuip in Rotterdam as Feyenoord stayed second within the standings, chopping the hole to runaway leaders PSV Eindhoven to 14 factors, however they needed to cling on grimly for the win towards the facet second from backside.

In France, Lyon failed to shut on the highest two – Paris Saint-Germain and Lens – as they slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Strasbourg. The guests had pulled a purpose again having been from 2-0 down shortly after half-time, however Joaquín Panichelli’s penalty seven minutes from time took the sport away from them.