Paulo Dybala scored a superb goal before leaving the pitch in tears with an injury as Juventus beat Sampdoria 3-2 in Turin, their first home victory of the Serie A season.
The Argentina international fired a low shot into the bottom corner after 10 minutes but limped off soon after with a muscular problem.
Massimiliano Allegri, Juventus’ head coach, said after the game that Dybala and his strike partner Álvaro Morata, who also went off injured, are “certain” to miss Wednesday’s Champions League clash with European champions Chelsea and Saturday’s Turin derby against Torino.
“We hope to have them back after the international break, but this is part of the game,” Allegri told Sky Italia. “Now it happens to us, later it could happen to someone else. We will need to be good to make up for the absences.
Allegri’s side climbed to ninth place in the table on eight points, three points clear of 14th-placed Sampdoria but eight adrift of league leaders Milan.
José Mourinho blamed the referee and VAR for Roma’s 3-2 defeat to rivals Lazio saying his side were dominant despite the result.
It was the Portuguese manager’s second loss since taking charge of the Italian side in the summer, and Lazio led from the 10th minute until the final whistle.
However, Mourinho was unhappy about a potential foul in the build-up to Lazio’s second goal, scored by former Roma winger Pedro after 19 minutes, and felt Lucas Leiva should have received a second booking after seeing Roma captain Lorenzo Pellegrini sent off against Udinese on Thursday.
”Italian football has improved a lot. But unfortunately, the referee and VAR were not at the right level for this fantastic match,* Mourinho told DAZN. “On the 2-0 goal it could have been 1-1, the referee and VAR made a mistake. This is too much. The lack of a second yellow for Leiva is also important. It was a similar situation to Pellegrini, he got a red but today there was nothing.
”We were the best team on the pitch. Obviously when you concede three goals, something has gone wrong, but the second and third were counter-attacks.
“We tried, we dominated. We gave everything and put Lazio in difficulty.”
Goals from Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong and the returning Ansu Fati helped Barcelona claim a much-needed 3-0 home victory over Levante in LaLiga.
The victory, Barça’s first in their last four games in all competitions, sees the Catalans climb to fifth in the table with 12 points from six games, five behind league leaders Real Madrid, who have played one more.
Having been held to frustrating draws by lowly opposition in their last two league games, Barça were quick out of the blocks and went ahead after six minutes as Depay converted a penalty.
They doubled their advantage just before the quarter-hour as De Jong latched on to a Sergiño Dest through ball before finishing past Aitor Fernández in the visitors’ goal. Fernandez made a couple of smart stops to keep the scoreline respectable as a dominant Barça pushed on in search a third.
It finally came in the 91st minute as Fati capped his first appearance since last November following a serious knee injury with a wonderful strike from distance.
Unbeaten Freiburg marked their departure from their Dreisam stadium after 67 years with a 3-0 victory over Augsburg on a nostalgic day in the Bundesliga.
The hosts, who are moving to the bigger Europa Park stadium after playing 360 Bundesliga matches at the Dreisam since winning promotion in 1993, struck three times in a dominant first half to maintain their strong start to the season.
Lukas Kübler put them in front, Lucas Höler doubled the score from close range in the 25th and Vincenzo Grifo scored with a penalty eight minutes later, and has now converted all nine of his Bundesliga spot kicks.
Grifo’s goal was the 999th Bundesliga goal scored at the Dreisam stadium as former coach Volker Finke, who led Freiburg to the Bundesliga in 1993, watched from the stands.
Freiburg coach Christian Streich was in tears at the final whistle after the emotional farewell, and the victory lifted his team, the only unbeaten side left in the league along with leaders Bayern Munich, to fifth place on 12 points.
