Real Madrid and Bayern Munich win as Cristiano Ronaldo rescues Juventus point – European round-up | Football News

Leon Goretzka’s first-half objective was sufficient to present Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich an important 1-0 victory at second-placed RB Leipzig on Saturday, as they opened up a seven-point lead on the prime and edged nearer to a ninth straight league crown.

Leipzig had been the higher crew however had been wasteful. In distinction, the Bavarians, with out injured prime scorer Robert Lewandowski, had been brutally environment friendly to earn the three factors after Goretzka fired in from Thomas Mueller’s fifteenth help of the season.

No crew has misplaced the title after main by seven factors after the twenty seventh matchday and with seven video games remaining.

The guests had few possibilities all through and survived a second-half siege as Leipzig squandered a quartet of golden alternatives in a strong begin after the break.

Neither Christopher Nkunku nor Dani Olmo and Marcel Sabitzer managed to hit the goal.

The latter did higher on the hour with a long-range effort that compelled Bayern ‘keeper Manuel Neuer to make a wonderful save as he tipped the ball over the bar, however the hosts couldn’t discover an equaliser.

Bayern, who face PSG within the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, are on 64 factors, with Leipzig second on 57 factors.

Eintracht Frankfurt striker Andre Silva headed in an 87th-minute winner to stun hosts Borussia Dortmund 2-1 and provides his crew a significant increase of their bid for a top-four end and a spot in subsequent season’s Champions League.

The Portuguese headed in a Filip Kostic cross on the far submit for his twenty second league objective of the season to elevate Frankfurt to 50 factors in fourth place, seven forward of Borussia Dortmund in fifth.

Frankfurt went in entrance as Dortmund’s Nico Schulz wrongfooted his personal keeper with a header within the eleventh minute. The guests had been additionally unfortunate to not be awarded a penalty for a transparent handball by Thomas Delaney.

As a substitute, it was Dortmund who scored on the stroke of half-time when Mats Hummels turned within the field to volley within the equaliser.

Frankfurt had been sharper after the break, nonetheless, bagging a deserved winner after coming shut by Silva, Kostic and Stefan Ilsanker in a robust second-half show.

Marcus Thuram scored twice as Borussia Monchengladbach got here from behind to beat Freiburg 2-1. Keven Schlotterbeck thought he had equalised in harm time for Freiburg, however the objective was dominated out by VAR for an offside name.

Elsewhere, third-placed Wolfsburg had been 1-0 winners towards Cologne, whereas Augsburg and Bayer Leverkusen had been 2-1 winners towards Hoffenheim and Schalke respectively. Mainz additionally drew 1-1 with Bielefeld.

La Liga – Actual see off Eibar

Actual Madrid forwards Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema struck to present their facet a 2-0 win at dwelling to Eibar, maintaining the strain on leaders Atletico Madrid forward of Tuesday’s Champions League conflict with Liverpool.

Asensio lastly gave Madrid the lead late within the forty first minute after his facet had two objectives dominated out for offside, latching on to a Casemiro by ball and curling his effort into the underside nook regardless of dropping his footing as he took the shot.

After controlling the primary half, Actual struggled for a protracted spell within the second as torrential rain poured down on the Alfredo di Stefano stadium and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois nearly dedicated a howler when he miscontrolled a back-pass, however managed to kick the ball away simply earlier than it crossed the road.

Actual then had a objective dominated out for offside for the third time however ultimately obtained the all-important second objective when Benzema headed dwelling a cross from Vinicius Jr. within the 73rd minute.

Elsewhere, Gerard Moreno scored a hat-trick in Villarreal’s 3-0 win at Granada, taking his tally to 19 objectives in La Liga this season. Osasuna and Granada performed out a goalless draw.

Serie A – Inter eight clear, Ronaldo rescues level in Turin derby

Romelu Lukaku scored his twentieth Serie A objective of the season to earn Inter Milan a 1-0 win at Bologna and ship them eight factors clear on the prime of the desk.

The Belgian struck after 32 minutes to grow to be the seventh participant in Inter’s 113-year historical past to achieve the 20-goal mark in two consecutive Serie A seasons, after notching 23 in his debut marketing campaign final 12 months.

Lautaro Martinez rattled the submit for the guests with the very best likelihood of the second half, as Bologna had been let down by poor taking pictures accuracy of their efforts to attract stage.

Inter are on 68 factors, eight forward of second-placed rivals AC Milan, and can lengthen that result in 11 factors in the event that they win their sport in hand towards Sassuolo on Wednesday. Bologna stay eleventh with 34 factors.

Juventus wanted a 79th-minute equaliser from Cristiano Ronaldo to rescue a 2-2 draw within the Turin derby towards relegation-battling Torino, leaving the champions’ Serie A title defence in tatters.

The strain was on Andrea Pirlo’s facet to provide a convincing efficiency after struggling a 1-0 loss to lowly Benevento earlier than the worldwide break, and so they began strongly as Federico Chiesa scored after 13 minutes.

However striker Antonio Sanabria quickly headed Torino stage, earlier than latching onto a careless Dejan Kulusevski back-pass to fireplace his facet in entrance within the opening minute of the second half.

Ronaldo headed in from shut vary to equalise however he was flagged for offside, earlier than a VAR evaluate overturned the choice and allowed the objective.

Juve slipped to fourth place on 56 factors, whereas Torino moved onto 24 factors, two away from the relegation zone in seventeenth place.

AC Milan’s faltering title hopes diminished additional after a 1-1 draw at dwelling to 10-man Sampdoria.

Jens Petter Hauge rescued a degree for Milan three minutes from time and the Rossoneri nearly snatched all three factors however Franck Kessie’s effort got here off the submit.

Fabio Quagliarella had scored within the 57th minute following a horrendous Milan error, however Sampdoria midfielder Adrien Silva was despatched off two minutes later.

Napoli survived a spirited fightback from backside facet Crotone to earn a 4-3 win and go fourth in Serie A, because the fierce battle for Champions League qualification continued.

Lorenzo Insigne and Victor Osimhen struck for the hosts earlier than Simy pulled one again, however Dries Mertens free-kick restored Napoli’s two-goal cushion earlier than the break.

The guests launched a comeback within the second half as Simy prodded in his second earlier than Junior Messias curled in a surprising equaliser within the 59th minute.

Nigeria worldwide Simys double continued an excellent run of type that makes him the highest scorer in Europe’s top-five leagues because the begin of March with eight objectives.

However the relegation battlers couldn’t maintain on as Giovanni Di Lorenzo rifled in a shot to place Gennaro Gattuso’s facet again in entrance after 72 minutes.

Atalanta beat Udinese 3-2. Luis Muriel struck twice within the first half to take his tally to 18 league objectives for the season earlier than Udinese’s Roberto Pereyra pulled one again.

Duvan Zapata drilled in Atalanta’s third earlier than Luca Gotti’s facet lowered the deficit once more on the 71st minute by Jens Stryger Larsen.

Lazio clinched a significant win and climbed into sixth place as Felipe Caicedo scored an 88th-minute penalty to beat Spezia 2-1 in Rome.

Manuel Lazzari’s opener was cancelled out by a spectacular bicycle kick from Spezia substitute Daniele Verde earlier than the late spot-kick, however Lazzari and Joaquin Correa had been despatched off for the house facet in stoppage time.

The Roman membership moved as much as 52 factors, one above Roma who had been held to a 2-2 draw by Sassuolo.

Lorenzo Pellegrini’s penalty edged Roma forward at half-time in an entertaining sport. Hamed Traore equalised after the break earlier than Bruno Peres restored the guests benefit, however Giacomo Raspadori fired dwelling an equaliser for Sassuolo 5 minutes from time.

Elsewhere, relegation battlers Benevento and Parma performed out a 2-2 draw, Hellas Verona went seventh with a 2-0 win at Cagliari and Franck Ribery was despatched off throughout Fiorentina’s 1-1 draw at Genoa on Giuseppe Iachini’s return as Viola coach.

Ligue 1 – Neymar sent off in Lille defeat

Neymar was despatched off on his return from harm as PSG slipped up 1-0 at dwelling to Lille, who surged three factors clear on the prime of Ligue 1.

Mauricio Pochettino’s facet began the afternoon stage on factors with their title rivals however ran right into a supremely organised Lille facet who took the lead on 20 minutes by Jonathan David.

Neymar was despatched off when he picked up a second yellow card for shoving Tiago Djalo because the clock approached 90 minutes. Djalo was additionally dismissed through the incident and needed to be escorted from the pitch following a foul-mouthed rant on the choice.

Pochettino, who was appointed in January, has now seen his facet lose their final three video games at dwelling in Ligue 1 as each Monaco and Lille have possibilities of dethroning the present champions. Monaco moved as much as third on 62 factors – one level behind PSG – with a 4-0 thrashing of Metz.

Monaco, which have now misplaced solely as soon as in 16 league video games, struck a double blow early within the second half. Cesc Fabregas scored a penalty within the forty ninth minute after ahead Stevan Jovetic was fouled, and striker Kevin Volland completed confidently two minutes later from Belgian midfielder Eliot Matazos go.

Striker Wissam Ben Yedder was surprisingly left on the bench however got here on to notch a wonderful third when he lower inside a defender and thumped the ball below the crossbar.

Ben Yedder was fouled by central defender John Boye and took the penalty to make it 4-0 within the 88th minute and transfer onto 15 league objectives, yet another than Volland.

Within the late sport, Lyon secured a late level towards Lens, though ended the sport with ten males when Islam Slimani was despatched off within the 91st minute.