European football: Orsolini last-gasp bicycle kick dents Inter’s title charge | European club football

A surprising last-gasp aim by the striker Riccardo Orsolini gave Bologna a 1-0 house win in opposition to Inter in Serie A on Sunday in a blow to the guests’ hopes of retaining their title.

Treble-chasing Inter stayed high of the standings with 71 factors after 33 video games however second-placed Napoli are actually stage on factors with the leaders after securing a late 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Monza on Saturday.

Orsolini sealed the three factors for the hosts in stoppage time with an excellent bicycle kick after Bologna’s lengthy throw-in was flicked on by an Inter defender and fell kindly for the striker. Bologna stay robust contenders to qualify for the Champions League as they provisionally moved as much as fourth on 60 factors, one level above Juventus who go to lowly Parma on Monday.

Each groups had one try on the right track every till late within the sport, in a match low on possibilities and depth. The encounter turned extra nervy after the break and the Bologna supervisor, Vincenzo Italiano, was despatched off, as was Inter’s assistant coach, Massimiliano Farris. The match seemed set to finish in a draw earlier than substitute Orsolini produced a superb winner, scoring his twelfth league aim of the season. He’s now stage within the scorers’ chart with the Inter striker Lautaro Martínez and Napoli’s Romelu Lukaku.

Atalanta beat Milan 1-0 on the San Siro because of Éderson’s second-half aim, which consolidated their place in Serie A’s high 4 and all however ended the hosts’ slim possibilities of incomes a Champions League spot. Ademola Lookman’s cross into the realm was met by Raoul Bellanova with a deft headed cross again to Éderson who completed off the transfer with a diving header previous keeper Mike Maignan.

Empoli and Venezia performed out a 2-2 draw that left each golf equipment within the relegation zone. The 2 sides are actually one level from security behind fourth-bottom Lecce, though they every boast superior aim distinction. Empoli are nonetheless to play fifth-bottom Parma – who sit three factors forward of them – at house.

In La Liga, Actual Madrid’s Federico Valverde scored an excellent late volley to safe a 1-0 house win over Athletic Bilbao that retains them inside 4 factors of leaders Barcelona. A closely rotated Athletic aspect had saved the hosts at bay till Valverde scored the winner three minutes into stoppage time, pouncing on a poor clearance to fireplace a volley into the far high nook. Vinícius Júnior thought he had handed Actual the lead with a low shot, however the 79th-minute effort was disallowed by the VAR for an Endrick offside within the buildup.

Within the Bundesliga, reigning champions Bayer Leverkusen slipped up with a 1-1 draw at St Pauli to drop eight factors behind leaders Bayern Munich as their slim hopes of defending their title had been all however ended.

Ahead Patrik Schick headed in an Álex Grimaldo free-kick to provide Leverkusen a Thirty third-minute lead along with his 18th league aim of the marketing campaign. Nonetheless, they might not rating once more and St Pauli steadily fought their manner again, levelling within the 78th after goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky failed to assemble the ball from a weak free-kick, spilling it into the trail of Carlo Boukhalfa, who tapped in. Leverkusen now have 64 factors after 30 matches, with Bayern high on 72

Borussia Dortmund struck 3 times in 9 first-half minutes to battle previous visiting Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-2 within the Bundesliga, and hold their slim hopes of a high 4 end alive with 4 matches left to play. Dortmund got here from a aim right down to bag the win that lifted them to seventh on 45 factors, 4 off fourth spot, the final place to supply computerized Champions League qualification.

Gladbach struck in opposition to the run of play with Ko Itakura within the twenty fourth minute. The Japanese, nevertheless, allowed the Dortmund striker Serhou Guirassy an excessive amount of house within the field 4 minutes earlier than the break to drill in from a Pascal Gross cutback. Solely three minutes later in an virtually equivalent transfer it was Felix Nmecha who slotted in earlier than Daniel Svensson headed in on the rebound deep in first-half stoppage time. Gladbach pulled a aim again with a Kevin Stöger penalty within the 56th minute.

In Ligue 1, Lyon’s hopes of a top-four end had been dented as they misplaced 2-1 at struggling St-Étienne in a sport which was marred by an incident through which one of many assistant referees, Mehdi Rahmouni, was hit by an object apparently thrown from the stands. The hosts had been main by Lucas Stassin’s early aim when the referee, François Letexier, took the gamers off, and Stassin struck once more on their return earlier than Tanner Tessmann pulled one again for the guests.

Canada striker Jonathan David scored two targets and arrange the opposite as Lille beat Auxerre 3-1 to take care of their push for a Champions League place. The Belgium right-back Thomas Meunier gave Lille an early lead after being discovered by David, who then scored near half-time. After an own-goal from the defender Alexsandro made it 2-1, David ran by deep into stoppage time for his sixteenth league aim of what’s more likely to be his closing season at Lille.

Victory was soured by a freakish harm to goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier, who was by accident ran into by Alexsandro when the defender scored the own-goal. “He has two or three damaged enamel,” mentioned the Lille head coach, Bruno Genesio. “He was offended about it and I can perceive. He’ll go to the dentist this week.”

Goduine Koyalipou, Neil El Aynaoui and Wesley Saïd struck at hand Lens a 3-1 win at Brest, who had taken the lead by Pierre Lees-Melou, however had Alfred N’Diaye despatched off, whereas Toulouse’s Mark McKenzie was additionally dismissed in a 1-0 defeat at Reims through which Jordan Siebatcheu scored the one aim.