Inter stretch unbeaten streak, Roma demolish Parma, Juventus bounce back: Serie A Femminile Week Five Round Up
Log leaders Inter Milan stretched their unbeaten streak to five matches with a 3-1 win over Serie A newcomers Como away on Friday afternoon.
22-year-old Italian forward Elisa Polli opened the account for Inter with a strike 12 minutes into the first half with an assist from French midfielder Ghoutia Karchouni before fellow forward Tatiana Bonetti doubled the visitors lead from the penalty spot on 27 minutes.
Polli returned to complete her brace making it 3-0 with a strike five minutes from half-time before defender Giulia Rizzon pulled one back for the hosts from the penalty spot in the third minute of first half extra-time.
Polli has caught up with Juventus forward Cristiana Girelli on five goals and is now joint-top scorer in the current Serie A term.
Rita Guarino’s side are now on 13 points from four wins and a draw in five matches whilst Como are ninth on the standings on one point from one draw in the same number of matches.
Elsewhere, AS Roma cruised to their fourth win of the season with a 5-0 demolition of Serie A newcomers Parma at the Centro Sportivo Fulvio Bernadini on Sunday.
Former Lillestrøm SK Kvinner forward Emilie Haavi opened the account for the hosts with a strike in the 16th minute before fellow former Lillestrøm forward Sophie Roman Haug headed home on 29 minutes to make it 2-0 with an assist from Haavi.
Former AC Milan skipper Valentina Giacinti tripled the lead for Le Giallorosse with a 30-yard strike on 33 minutes and the match would go to half-time with the hosts in the lead.
Haavi returned to complete her brace, quadrupling the lead with a strike in the 61st minute with an assist from Giacinti before Haug also completed her brace making it 5-0 with a header two minutes before time with an assist from forward Benedetta Glionna.
Giacinti is now club top scorer and joint-third top scorer in the current Serie A campaign with four goals.
Roma remain second on the standings on 12 points from four wins in five matches whilst Parma remain seventh on three points from one win in the same number of matches.
Goals from Sofia Cantore, Arianna Caruso and Annahita Zamanian were enough for Juventus to beat ASD Pomigliano 3-0 on Saturday as the reigning champions bounced back from a disappointing one-all draw against Sassuolo last Saturday.
Cantore, who started in the place of the injured Girelli, opened the account for the hosts with a strike 12 minutes into the second half with an assist from defender Amanda Nildén before Caruso doubled the lead with a strike on 81 minutes with an assist from recent signing Evelina Duljan.
83rd minute substitute midfielder Zamanian, who came on for forward Lineth Beerensteyn, capped the match with a strike in the fourth minute of second half extra-time as the hosts collected their third full set of points.
Pomigliano finished the match with 10 players after midfielder Virginia Di Giammarino was shown a second yellow in the 51st minute for simulation.
The Bianconere rose to fourth from fifth on the standings on 11 points from three wins and two draws in five matches whilst Pomigliano remain eighth on one point from one draw in the same number of matches.
Fiorentina bounced back from a 2-1 defeat to Roma last week to record a 2-0 win over Sassuolo at home on Saturday.
Midfielder Alice Parisi opened the scoring for the hosts with a strike 19 minutes into the first half with an assist from forward Michela Catena before last season’s Serie A golden boot winner Daniela Sabatino put the match to bed from the penalty spot in the first minute of first half extra-time.
Fiorentina gained one place moving from fourth to third on the standings, one place behind Roma on inferior goal difference, on 12 points from four wins in five contests whilst Sassuolo remain at the bottom of the log on one point from one draw in the same number of outings.
AC Milan condemned Sampdoria to their second consecutive defeat of the season with a 2-1 result at the Centro Sportivo Peppino Vismara on Saturday.
Sampdoria opened the scoring through forward Sara Baldi just three minutes into the first half with an assist from forward Stefania Tarenzi before in-form Swedish forward Kosovare Asllani equalised for AC Milan with a strike just four minutes later. Asllani returned to complete her brace making it 2-1 for Milan just three minutes after the break with an assist from former Sassuolo midfielder Kamila Dubcová.
Asllani is now joint-third top scorer in the current Serie A campaign with four goals.
The Rossonere remain sixth on the standings on nine points from three wins in five encounters whilst Sampdoria slipped from second to fifth on nine points from three wins in the same number of matches.
RESULTS: Friday 30 September (Como 1 – 3 Inter Milan)
RESULTS: Saturday 01 October (Fiorentina 2 – 0 Sassuolo)
RESULTS: Saturday 01 October (AC Milan 2 – 1 Sampdoria)
RESULTS: Sunday 02 October (Juventus 3 – 0 ASD Pomigliano)
RESULTS: Sunday 02 October (AS Roma 5 – 0 Parma)