Inter Milan kept their lead in the Serie A title race thanks to a tight 2-1 win over Lazio on Sunday, while Juventus pulled off an incredible comeback to sink a distraught Roma 4-3.

Milan Skriniar thumped home the decisive goal with a towering header from Alessandro Bastoni’s cross in the 67th minute to put Inter back one point ahead of AC Milan, who had moved into first place after a 3-0 win at Venezia in Sunday’s early match.

Simone Inzaghi’s side have a game in hand on their local rivals after their match at Bologna on Thursday was not played due to Covid infections among the opposition squad.

“We need to carry on like this, because all our direct rivals won today so there’s no time to stop and think, we just have to keep winning,” said Inzaghi after Inter’s eighth straight league triumph.

t was a strong display at the San Siro for Inter against Inzaghi’s old club, who however gave a good account of themselves and levelled in the 35th minute through Ciro Immobile’s 15th league goal of the season after Bastoni had crashed the hosts into the lead with a long-range daisy cutter five minutes before.

Maurizio Sarri’s side even gave Inter some scares after Skriniar crashed in his third league goal of the campaign, with Immobile having a goal ruled out for an obvious offside, but they couldn’t create anything clear cut and left Milan with their seventh defeat of the season.

Six points behind Inter in third are Napoli, whose faltering Serie A title hopes were kept alive by Andrea Petagna in a 1-0 win over Sampdoria.

Burly forward Petagna struck the winner with an uncharacteristically acrobatic bicycle kick just before half-time to keep Napoli — missing a number of key players to Covid-19 infections and the Africa Cup of Nations — just about in the hunt.