European football: Lazio join Inter at top of Serie A as Roma held at Como

Keisuke Goto heads in to seal Freiburg’s 2-1 win against Schalke to fire his side to the top of the Bundesliga. Photograph: Tom Weller/DPA/AP

European football: Freiburg move top of Bundesliga while Isco keeps Betis flying high

Ten-man Freiburg scored an 85th-minute winner ⁠through Keisuke Goto to snatch a 2-1 victory over ⁠visitors Schalke 04 ⁠on ​Sunday and move top of the Bundesliga.

Freiburg, who had ⁠already made a club-record start with 10 points from their opening ⁠four matches, climbed to 13 points, ​ahead of Borussia ‌Dortmund on ‌goal difference. Champions Bayern, who drew 2-2 ‌against Augsburg on Saturday, are third on 11.

With Freiburg in control, Maximilian Eggestein put the hosts in front after 10 minutes, but Schalke hit ‌back through Adrian Gantenbein on the half-hour.

Freiburg were reduced to ​10 men when Yuito Suzuki received a second yellow card in the 64th minute, seemingly handing Schalke the initiative.

But ⁠the visitors were far too passive and ​toothless ​in attack to ​make the extra man count ​and Freiburg ‌punished them ​five ​minutes before the end with Japan international Goto snatching the winner with a glancing header.

Real Betis playmaker Isco netted a goal in each half ⁠as his side breezed to a 5-2 home win over Osasuna on ⁠Sunday that lifts ⁠them ​to third place in La Liga, five points behind leaders Barcelona and one ahead ⁠of Real Madrid.

Isco fired home from the penalty spot in the 10th minute to ⁠open the scoring, and Abde Ezzalzouli added a second ​before the break after ‌Betis won the ‌ball high up the pitch and countered quickly.

Betis ‌looked to be set for a comfortable afternoon when Diego Llorente added a third three minutes after half-time, but two quick goals for the visitors from Ante Budimir and Raúl García reduced the ‌deficit to 3-2 in the 56th minute.

However, Isco eased their nerves again when he ​snapped up a loose ball in the box and rifled it home, and José Antonio Morante came off the bench in the 90th minute before scoring deep ⁠into stoppage time to leave Betis on 19 ​points after ​eight games.

Earlier on ​Sunday, Real Sociedad held off a spirited ​comeback from ‌Deportivo La Coruña ​to ​emerge with a 3-2 win at home, while struggling Elche grabbed a much-needed point by holding visitors Celta Vigo to a scoreless draw.

Lazio moved level on points with Inter at the top of Serie A with a 3-1 win over Monza on Sunday as 10-man Roma played out the first goalless draw of the Italian season at Como.

Under Gennaro Gattuso, who has bounced back after his failure in charge of the Italian national side who missed out on the 2026 World Cup, Lazio continued their strong start to the season. Still unbeaten, the Roman outfit secured a fifth victory in six matches to pull level on 16 points with Inter, who beat Parma 3-0 at San Siro on Saturday.

Nuno Tavares gave Lazio a third-minute lead and Gustav Isaksen doubled it midway through the first half. Monza had Lorenzo Lucchesi sent off on 35 minutes for hauling down Tijjani Noslin as he broke through on goal, but the 16th-placed visitors rattled Lazio after the break, pulling a goal back and coming close to equalising before conceding a third goal in the closing stages.

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Nuno Tavares gives Lazio an early lead. Photograph: Riccardo Antimiani/EPA

Roma left Como frustrated. The dismissal of league top scorer Donyell Malen for a dangerous tackle early in the second half forced them to scale back their ambitions. Neither team could find the breakthrough in a clash between two sides widely regarded as dark horses for the title, leaving Inter and Lazio two points clear of Roma after their respective wins over Parma and Monza.

“We played two-thirds of the match a man down, that is the disappointing thing,” Roma coach Gian Piero Gasperini told DAZN. “We were confident we had an excellent chance, but we were forced to defend with 10 men, and we did so with order and clarity. When you play 30 minutes with 10 men and come away with a draw, that is fine.”

Bologna picked up their first win of the season by beating Lecce 2-1. Later, Milan go to Sassuolo before surprise package Cagliari welcome Juventus to the Unipol Domus in the late kick-off.

Borussia Mönchengladbach remained rock bottom of the Bundesliga after a 2-1 defeat to local rivals Cologne on Sunday, in a match overshadowed by ugly scenes on the terraces.

The game was suspended for several minutes and riot police surrounded the away block after Gladbach fans appeared to fire fireworks into the home sections after Said El Mala’s superb second-half winner. That maintained pointless Gladbach’s miserable start to the season as new coach Alexander Blessin failed to prevent the club falling to their fifth defeat in as many games.

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