Football Talk. Doku scores as a substitute against Lorient – Mouscron wins fourth time in a row – Denayer beats Montpellier with Lyon | Football

Italian football club Napoli has unveiled a statue of Diego Maradona ahead of their home game against Lazio. It was a year ago this week that the Argentinian passed away at the age of 60. That happened on November 25, 2020.

Napoli already decided at the time to name the Stadio San Paolo after Maradona. Since Sunday, a statue of the Argentine legend has also been placed in the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. The creators have captured the Argentinian in a running pose, with a ball on his right knee. The statue stands on a pedestal in the shape of the number 10, Maradona’s fixed number.

Napoli had invited many former teammates of the Argentine to the game against Lazio. FIFA president Gianni Infantino also sat in the stands next to Napoli owner Aurelio de Laurentiis. Just like last week against Inter Milan, Dries Mertens and his teammates wore a shirt with an image of Maradona on it.

The Argentine played for Napoli from 1984 to 1991. He gave the club two league titles, in 1987 and 1990, and a win of the UEFA Cup in 1989.

On the 14th match day of the Serie A, AS Roma received Torino on Sunday, where Dennis Praet was in the starting lineup. The Romans won sparingly with 1-0. Abraham scored the only goal of the game (32.). Praet was replaced by Pjaca in the 76th minute. Roma are fifth in Italy with 25 points.

Yannick Carrasco played a full match for Atletico Madrid on Sunday, which won 1-4 in Cadiz on the 14th match day in La Liga. At halftime, the score was still 0-0. In the 56th minute, Carrasco put Thomas Lemar on his way to 0-1. Also Antoine Griezmann (70th), Angel Correa (76th) and Mattheus Cunha (86th) scored for Atletico. The 1-3 came in the 86th minute to Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak, who worked the ball into his own goal.

In the standings, Atletico is second, one point behind fellow city rivals Real, which is playing a match in the top match of the match day Sevilla on Sunday evening.

On the 15th match day in the French Ligue 1, Lyon, with Jason Denayer in the base, started to win economically on the Montpellier field on Sunday. Lucas Paqueta scored the only goal of the match in the 17th minute. Denayer’s club is in seventh place, with 22 points from 14 games.

On the 14th match day in the Dutch Eredivisie, PSV did not get any further than a 1-1 draw at Heerenveen. Maxime Delanghe and Yorbe Vertessen were on the bench at PSV, Mohammed Amin Doudah was not in the selection due to an injury. Carlos Vinicius gave PSV the lead in the 13th minute, Rami Hajal equalized in the second half (73.). Vertessen came in in the 68th minute. PSV is in second place with 31 points, two points from Ajax

In the French Ligue 1, AS Monaco received RC Strasbourg on Sunday. With the visitors, Matz Sels was standing between the posts, Eliot Matazo was on the bench at Monaco. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. Ben Yedder scored from the spot (45.+1), but Ajorque equalized (47.) just after the break. Strasbourg and Monaco are seventh and eighth respectively, with both 20 points from 15 matches.

FC Lorient played against Stade Rennes, where Jeremy Doku was sitting on the bench. Rennes won 0-2. Laborde made it 0-1 in the 76th minute and substitute Jeremy Doku doubled the score two minutes later (78.). Stade Rennes is second in France with 28 points.

Stade de Reims looked Clermont in the eye. Wout Faes was in the starting line-up at Reims, which won 1-0. Konan scored the only goal of the game in added time (90.+1). Reims is 14th with 16 points.

Excel Mouscron has won a fourth consecutive victory in the 1B Pro League. On the 13th match day, the Hainaut team were 2-1 too strong for Lierse Kempenzonen. The home side opened the scoring at Le Canonnier in the 20th minute via Lucas Ribeiro Costa. An own goal by Joeri Poelmans (64.) made it 2-0. The visitors did not get further than the connecting goal of Thibaut Van Acker (72.).

Mouscron leaves last place with 15 points. It drops to sixth place, ahead of Lommel SK (14 points) and Virton (12 points). Lierse Kempenzonen is third with one point more than Mouscron.

Juventus continues to record mixed results in Serie A. After a previous 6 out of 6, Atalanta took a 0-1 win at the Allianz Stadium on Saturday evening on the fourteenth match day.

Duvan Zapata (28.) scored the only goal of the match in an equal first half. After the break, the field dominance was for the Oude Dame, but that did not result in an equalizer. It was already the fifth league defeat of the season.

Juventus dangles in eighth place in the standings with just 21 out of 42, while Atalanta is fourth with 28 points. Leaders Napoli and Milan can extend their lead over Juve to 14 units on Sunday.

On the 37th and penultimate match day in the Japanese J-League, Thomas Vermaelen and his club Vissel Kobe lost the top bill against Yokohama F. Marinos on Saturday with 0-2.

The visitors made it thanks to goals from Daizen Maeda (23.) and Teruhito Nakagawa (82.). Vermaelen played centrally in the back of the entire match.

Due to the loss, Vissel Kobe (70 points) definitely finishes in third place and has to play the play-offs to participate in the Asian Champions League. Yokohama (78 points) becomes vice champion and directly qualified for the group stage of the AFC Champions League, as is champion Kawasaki Frontale (91 points).

Football club Juventus has been visited by investigative services. The offices of the Italian record champion in Turin and Milan were searched by order of justice. Juventus would have messed with the transfer values ​​of players between 2019 and 2021, in order to get the balance in order financially.

Chairman Andrea Agnelli, vice-chairman Pavel Nedved and former technical director Fabio Paratici, now employed by Tottenham Hotspur, are the suspects in the case. The listed Juventus is said to have not only consciously scaled the transfer value of certain players higher in recent years, but also issued invoices for non-existent transactions. According to the judiciary, it concerns a total of about 50 million euros in suspicious money movements.

The investigative services have seized documents from various Juventus offices. The ‘Old Lady’ is silent for the time being. The club has not yet commented on the allegations and the investigation. Juventus will play a home game against Atalanta in the Serie A on Saturday evening at 6 p.m.