Juventus book Champions League place; Roma win in Ranieri’s last game

TURIN: Juventus qualified for the Champions League after the Bianconeri won 3-2 at Venezia in the final round of Serie A on Sunday to finish fourth.

Juventus finished one point ahead of Roma, which won 2-0 at Torino to secure a Europa League spot.

Venezia, which was relegated along with Empoli, surprised Juventus with an early goal from Daniel Fila in the second minute. But Kenan Yildiz and Randal Kolo Muani struck back to put Juventus in control after 31 minutes.

Ridgeciano Haps equalized after the break for Venezia before Manuel Locatelli restored Juve’s lead with a penalty.

Leandro Paredes converted a first-half penalty and Alexis Saelemaekers headed in after the break for Roma in the final match of Claudio Ranieri’s coaching career.

Roma was 12th when Ranieri was hired in November, and the Giallorossi lost just once during the second half of the season.

Fiorentina leapfrogged Lazio into sixth to take the Conference League spot with a 3-2 win at 10-man Udinese. Moise Kean scored the decisive goal for Fiorentina with a deflected shot.

Lazio lost 1-0 at home to 10-man Lecce, which got a first-half goal from Lassana Coulibaly, and was left out of Europe.

Daniel Maldini scored two goals in a minute for Atalanta in a 3-2 loss to Parma. First, Maldini slid in to redirect a cross then he scored with a long-range effort. Substitute Jacob Ondrejka scored two late goals for Parma to make sure his team avoided relegation.

Empoli lost 2-1 to Hellas Verona. Agencies

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