Serie A race to avoid relegation takes dramatic turn
Pisa and Verona look doomed to relegation from Serie A, but it’s wide open for the third slot, as Fiorentina, Cremonese, Lecce and Genoa are crammed into a three-point radius.
The Week 27 fixtures were completed this evening and the results have a big knock-on effect for the fight to avoid relegation.
Serie A has three spots going down out of 20, and it will take a miracle now for Pisa and Hellas Verona to avoid the slide into Serie B.
They are stuck together on just 15 points out of 27 rounds, already nine adrift of the others in this race.
Torino’s win over Lazio might’ve done enough to keep them out of the running, leaving only Genoa on 27 points, then Fiorentina, Cremonese and Lecce all crammed together on 24.
The Viola had broken clear in recent weeks, but are now back in the quagmire, out of the bottom three purely on goal difference.
If two teams are tied at the end of the season for relegation, then they will face off in a specially arranged play-off.
If three or more sides have the same points, then a mini-table is drawn up of their head-to-head results, with the bottom two going into the play-off.
Serie A Table
| Rank | Teams | Played | Goal difference | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inter | 27 | 43 | 67 |
| 2 | Milan | 27 | 23 | 57 |
| 3 | Napoli | 27 | 13 | 53 |
| 4 | Roma | 27 | 18 | 51 |
| 5 | Como | 27 | 24 | 48 |
| 6 | Juventus | 27 | 18 | 47 |
| 7 | Atalanta | 27 | 13 | 45 |
| 8 | Bologna | 27 | 4 | 39 |
| 9 | Sassuolo | 27 | -2 | 38 |
| 10 | Udinese | 27 | -8 | 35 |
| 11 | Lazio | 27 | -1 | 34 |
| 12 | Parma | 27 | -12 | 33 |
| 13 | Cagliari | 27 | -7 | 30 |
| 14 | Torino | 27 | -20 | 30 |
| 15 | Genoa | 27 | -7 | 27 |
| 16 | Fiorentina | 27 | -12 | 24 |
| 17 | Cremonese | 27 | -17 | 24 |
| 18 | Lecce | 27 | -18 | 24 |
| 19 | Pisa | 27 | -24 | 15 |
| 20 | Verona | 27 | -28 | 15 |