Two outsider managers in Maurizio Sarri and José Mourinho have the capital’s clubs going deep in Serie A’s top-four battle
The Scudetto is still heading to Naples, but for one weekend Serie A belonged to the city of Rome. On Friday, Lazio toppled the league leaders at their own stadium. On Sunday, Roma beat the Juventus side who would be second if it weren’t for the 15-point penalty given to them at the start of this year.
Both games followed a similar pattern in being settled by a second-half goal. Lazio’s reward was to finish the weekend third in the table. Roma are one point behind them in joint-fourth.
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