Serie A: Inter stay top with comeback win over Bologna, Allegri's Napoli fall in Venice

The seventh round of Serie A confirms Inter at the top of the table and further complicates the path of Allegri’s Napoli, who came away defeated from an away trip that on paper seemed within reach.

At the Dall’Ara, Inter beat Bologna 3-1, overturning the initial deficit during the match. The result allows the team to remain at the top of the championship table, confirming a solid run despite the difficulties that emerged in the starting score against the home side.

The opposite result came for Napoli, who lost 1-0 away to Venezia. During the match Kevin De Bruyne missed a penalty that could have brought Napoli level, an episode that weighs on the overall balance sheet of Allegri’s team. With this defeat, Napoli have lost their third match in the championship.

The two results paint a picture of a table in which Inter consolidate their leading position just as one of their main rivals, Napoli, suffers a new setback. The comeback in Milan’s away fixture at Bologna and the slip-up in Venice are, on this matchday, the two pieces of news that weigh most heavily on the balance of the championship: on one hand a team confirming its consistency of results even when starting from behind, on the other a team struggling to turn the chances it creates — the penalty missed by De Bruyne being the most direct example — into full points.

The news on the two results currently comes from a single source (Sky Sport); no independent confirmation is available.

Fonti: Sky Sport; Sky Sport