Lazio Stun Juventus 3-0 in Turin as Milan Edge Atalanta in Five-Goal Sunday Thriller

TURIN, ITALY · SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2026

Turin was supposed to be the hard place to go in Serie A this season. On Sunday night it looked like Lazio's home away from home. Goals from Oliver Provstgaard, Gustav Isaksen and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru gave Lazio a 3-0 win over Juventus at the Allianz Stadium that lifted Gennaro Gattuso's side level with Inter Milan at the top of the table, Reuters reported — and it was only the loudest result on a Sunday that also produced a five-goal thriller at San Siro and two more away wins in Florence and Udine.

Lazio's Danish duo made the difference, according to Reuters. Provstgaard broke the deadlock in the 37th minute, using his height to glance home Mattia Zaccagni's cross after Lazio worked a short corner on the left. Isaksen doubled the lead in the 66th minute, collecting a pass from Nuno Tavares on the right, shifting the ball onto his left foot and bending a low finish into the far corner. Dele-Bashiru, who had come off the bench in the 69th minute, completed the scoring in the 89th, launching a counter-attack from inside his own half, driving into the box and slotting home a low finish as frustrated home supporters jeered Juventus through to the final whistle, Reuters reported.

The strangest part of the scoreline is how ordinary Juventus looked in the numbers around it. Juventus held 58 percent of possession and matched Lazio's nine shots, but managed only two efforts on target to Lazio's three, according to the match data carried by El Botola. Football Italia reported that the sold-out Allianz Stadium emptied in the dying minutes with Lazio leading 3-0, and that the supporters who stayed booed the team off at full time. It was Juventus' second defeat in their last five Serie A rounds, and it left Luciano Spalletti's side eight points behind Inter.

Gattuso's Lazio are level at the top

The win moved Lazio to 19 points from seven matches, level with Inter at the top of the table. Inter kept their own unbeaten start alive on Saturday by coming from behind to beat Bologna, Reuters reported. Lazio have won six and drawn one under Gattuso, and Italian reports noted that he is the first manager in Serie A history to win six of his first seven games in charge of the club. For a side that has not won the Scudetto since 1999-2000, a statement win in Turin — celebrated in front of a packed away end — is the kind of result that starts to change what a season is allowed to be.

Juventus, by contrast, head into the week with questions. Spalletti's team had the ball and the territory in Turin but produced almost nothing that troubled Lazio's structure, and the home crowd's reaction at the end told the story of where patience stands. A 3-0 home defeat does not end a title race in October, but eight points is a real gap, and Sunday's performance suggested the distance is about more than arithmetic.

Milan survive a five-goal thriller at San Siro

Earlier on Sunday, AC Milan beat Atalanta 3-2 at San Siro in a game that was 3-0 and comfortable before it was suddenly anything but, Reuters reported. Christian Pulisic had an early close-range goal ruled out for a tight offside after a VAR check, according to ESPN's match analysis, before Milan took the lead in the 24th minute: Atalanta substitute Relja Obric, on for his league debut after Sead Kolasinac's injury, handled Yunus Musah's shot, and Goncalo Ramos dispatched the penalty, sending goalkeeper Marco Carnesecchi the wrong way.

Adrien Rabiot doubled the lead just before halftime, cutting inside from Diego Moreira's pass and drilling a low shot into the bottom corner — his third consecutive league goal, according to LaPresse. Milan were awarded a second penalty in the 56th minute for a Thomas Kristensen handball, but Carnesecchi parried Ramos' spot kick; from the resulting corner, Mario Gila headed in at the back post off Rabiot's flick-on to make it 3-0 in the 57th minute, ESPN reported. The game looked finished. It was not. Substitute Gianluca Gaetano pulled one back in the 66th minute, Nikola Krstovic finished a swift counter in the 81st to make it 3-2, and two minutes later Mike Maignan rushed out to deny Davide Zappacosta one-on-one, parrying the effort with his legs to preserve the lead, Reuters reported. Ramos missed a late chance in the 95th minute, but Milan held on, AC Milan's official site confirmed.

The result moved Milan to fourth place with 15 points, and manager Ruben Amorim remains unbeaten in his first seven league games, according to ESPN. Atalanta, coached by Maurizio Sarri, stayed on nine points after a fourth defeat in five matches, LaPresse reported — a deepening crisis for a side that, like Milan, had won in Europe on Thursday night.

Sunday roundup: Como win in Florence, Lecce rout Udinese

Como ended their winless run with a 3-1 victory at Fiorentina that kept the hosts locked near the bottom of the table on four points, theScore reported. Nineteen-year-old Mattia Liberali opened the scoring just after the half-hour, cutting in on his left foot and bending a low finish into the far corner, and Argentina international Nico Paz doubled the advantage four minutes later with a controlled header. Marin Pongracic slammed in from close range in the 42nd minute to give Fiorentina hope, but Anastasios Douvikas sealed it early in the second half when his tame effort went through former Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea's legs in the 56th minute, according to theScore. Reuters reported that Como have 14 points, while Fiorentina sit second from bottom with four points from seven matches.

In the day's early game, Lecce won 3-0 at Udinese, with Kialonda Gaspar heading in the opener in the 11th minute, Konan N'Dri converting via a deflection in the 33rd and Jamil Siebert nicking the ball near halfway late on, carrying it into the area and finishing into the roof of the net in the 86th, Football Italia reported. The result lifted Lecce to 11th place and dropped Udinese to 17th on four points, with Udinese coach Kosta Runjaic now on five straight league defeats. For more from Italy and around Europe, visit our Soccer hub and the Sports desk.