Milan disaster deepens after third straight Serie A loss, this time to Lazio

AC Milan’s Rafael Leao walks off the pitch after the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Lazio on the San Siro stadium, in Milan, Italy, on March 2, 2025.
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AC Milan fell additional into disaster on Sunday as a stoppage-time penalty condemned it to a 2-1 defeat at residence to Lazio within the Italian league.

Regardless of being lowered to 10 males, Milan managed to degree within the 84th minute however Pedro transformed a penalty within the eighth minute of stoppages.

This was Milan’s third straight Serie A loss amid a disastrous run that additionally noticed the Rossoneri crash out of the Champions League.

Milan dropped to ninth within the standings and was leapfrogged by Roma after Claudio Ranieri’s workforce fought again to beat 10-man Como 2-1.

Lazio climbed again into fourth place — a degree above Juventus, which hosts Hellas Verona on Monday.

Sixth-placed Bologna rallied to beat relegation-threatened Cagliari 2-1.

Lazio was additionally seeking to get again to successful methods following two Serie A attracts and being knocked out of the Italian Cup midweek by Inter Milan, additionally at San Siro.

Mattia Zaccagni gave Lazio the lead within the twenty eighth minute. His preliminary try was saved by Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan however Zaccagni tapped within the rebound.

Milan’s possibilities of getting one thing from the match diminished within the 67th when defender Strahinja Pavlovic was proven a straight pink card for a harmful deal with on Lazio midfielder Mattéo Guendouzi

Milan neverthless managed to search out an equalizer when Rafael Leão whipped in a cross from the left for an unmarked Samuel Chukwueze to go in on the far submit.

However there was even later drama when Lazio was awarded a penalty on video assessment after Maignan introduced down visiting ahead Gustav Isaksen. Pedro struck the spot kick into the underside proper nook.

Riccardo Orsolini scored twice to assist Bologna enhance its possibilities of qualifying for the Champions League once more.

Cagliari surprisingly reached the break forward in Bologna after Roberto Piccoli’s Twenty second-minute header.

However Bologna coach Vincenzo Italiano made three adjustments at halftime and his workforce leveled virtually instantly as Orsolini transformed a penalty after Cagliari midfielder Mattia Felici fouled Nicolò Cambiaghi — a type of substitutes.

Cambiaghi additionally rolled the ball throughout for Orsolini to faucet in and full the turnaround eight minutes later.

Cagliari is three factors above the relegation zone.

Substitute Alexis Saelemaekers took simply 120 seconds to assist Roma flip its match spherical.

Roma was trailing at residence to Como following Lucas Da Cunha’s objective on the stroke of halftime.

However the match modified within the 61st minute. Saelemaekers, who had solely simply come off the bench, performed a one-two with Zeki Çelik after which a stroke of luck noticed his effort deflected by Como defender Edoardo Goldaniga, getting into off the underside of the crossbar.

It shortly bought worse for Como because it virtually instantly went right down to 10 males when defender Marc-Oliver Kempf was despatched off following a second yellow card.

Halftime substitute Artem Dovbyk scored the winner within the 76th, volleying in a cross from Devyne Rensch — who had been on the sphere for lower than two minutes.

It was Roma’s eleventh league match unbeaten since a loss at Como on Dec. 15 and despatched Ranieri’s workforce as much as eighth, six factors under Juventus.

Empoli, which surprisingly knocked defending champion Juventus out of the Italian Cup midweek, drew 1-1 at Genoa to stay within the backside three, one level from security.

Torino received 2-0 at backside membership Monza.