MILAN (AP) \u2014 AC Milan and Juventus risk losing their Champions League places as city rival Inter Milan closes in on the Serie A title<\/p>\n
Milan was reduced to 10 men and beaten 2-0 at Sassuolo on Sunday for its fourth loss in seven matches. Then Juventus drew 1-1 with relegated Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n
Inter, meanwhile, can seal the title with a draw against visiting Parma later.<\/p>\n
Third-placed Milan was left only two points ahead of fourth-placed Juventus, which is just three points ahead of fifth-placed Como, which is trying to get into the top four and secure a Champions League spot.<\/p>\n
Three rounds remain in the Italian league.<\/p>\n
Domenico Berardi scored early on for Sassuolo for his 12th career goal against Milan and Fikayo Tomori was sent off before Armand Lauriente doubled the advantage after the break.<\/p>\n
Milan has scored only one goal in its last five matches.<\/p>\n
Christian Pulisic, who came on in the second half, extended his goalless streak to a career-high 17 league matches.<\/p>\n
Juventus also dropped points at home against Verona but extended its unbeaten run to nine matches.<\/p>\n
Kieron Bowie put Verona ahead after intercepting a pass from Juventus defender Gleison Bremer then Dusan Vlahovic equalized for Juventus with a free kick around Verona\u2019s wall for his first goal since October.<\/p>\n
Also, Bologna was held 0-0 by Cagliari in a regional derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 AC Milan and Juventus risk losing their Champions League places as city rival Inter Milan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8990,2370,142,4008,8991,8988,5,8989,25,26,21,1144,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-12166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-armand-lauriente","9":"tag-christian-pulisic","10":"tag-domenico-berardi","11":"tag-dusan-vlahovic","12":"tag-fikayo-tomori","13":"tag-inter-milan-serie-a-title-champion","14":"tag-italy","15":"tag-kieron-bowie","16":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","17":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","18":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","19":"tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","20":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}