After losing the two valuable points Stefano Pioli's aspect preserve a slender lead over second-placed Napoli, who ran out superb three-1 winners at Atalanta on Sunday afternoon. Defending champions Inter Milan are 4 factors lower back in third with a game in hand following their 1-0 triumph at fourth-positioned Juventus, who are eight points off the pace with seven suits left.
The draw changed into another disappointing result towards one of the league's lesser lighting, their presentations towards teams they need to beat a steady problem because the season heads towards its climax.
Bologna, who sit twelfth, have been with out their instruct Sinisa Mihajlovic who's being treated for leukaemia however spoke to his players on a video call from Sant'Orsola hospital in the northern Italian metropolis.
The away side fought at some stage in in front of over sixty eight,000 enthusiasts on the San Siro and will even have taken the lead midway via the primary 1/2 whilst Mike Maignan pulled off a fingertip store to preserve out Musa Barrow's long-variety rocket. However Milan ruled the play as they driven to preserve their three-point lead on Napoli, with Olivier Giroud being denied twice simply earlier than half of-time via Lukasz Skorupski.
The hosts came out aggressively after the break but again struggled to find away past Skorupski, who saved out Rafael Leao's low drive earlier than looking Davide Calabria's 61st-minute power fly simply wide after being installation by way of his Portuguese teammate. Leao scuffed extensive a curling attempt 11 mins later and Fikayo Tomori hooked over the bar earlier than Skorupski saved a point for Bologna inside the 5th minute of stoppage time through tipping over Ante Rebic's powerful header, which happily for the Pole changed into hit instantly down the middle of his intention.
Earlier Giovanni Simeone struck his 16th league aim of the season in Verona's 1-0 win over relegation-threatened Genoa who fell to their first defeat below teach Alexander Blessin. Simeone became handiest the second one participant in Verona's records after Luca Toni to net more than 15 times in a unmarried Serie A marketing campaign after his decisive fifth-minute strike which moved Verona up to ninth and left Genoa second from backside, three points from safety.
Blessin had not lost in his previous eight matches in rate in view that arriving at Genoa a digital unknown in January, jogging out seven consecutive draws earlier than beating Torino simply earlier than the worldwide destroy. Verona had been gambling without the help of their hardcore fans after the Curva Sud phase of the Stadio Bentegodi become closed following racist abuse directed at Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly and Victor Osimhen in their preceding domestic fixture remaining month.
