Kolo Muani scores on debut for Juventus but Lukaku inspires Napoli to comeback win

ROME (AP) — When Randal Kolo Muani scored on debut for Juventus, Antonio Conte’s Napoli just dug in and played harder.

A 2-1 comeback win for the Serie A leader on Saturday reinforced Napoli’s title credentials and gave Conte a victory against the team he played for and the club where he earned his first major titles as a manager.

Napoli moved six points ahead of defending champion Inter Milan, which visits relegation-threatened Lecce on Sunday — and will still have a game in hand after this weekend.

Earlier, third-placed Atalanta also came back from a goal down to win at promoted Como 2-1 and move within one point of Inter.

Juventus, meanwhile, remained fifth and still outside of the Champions League places.

Six touches. That’s all it took for Kolo Muani to score his first goal in Serie A.

Loaned from Paris Saint-Germain two days earlier, Kolo Muani took advantage of an inadvertent deflection by Napoli midfielder André-Frank Anguissa shortly before halftime, using one touch to volley in from the center of the area as he turned and unleashed his shot in one swift action.

Juventus coach Thiago Motta didn’t waste any time in using Kolo Muani, putting the France forward in the starting lineup ahead of slumping center forward Dusan Vlahovic.

Anguissa equalized after the break with a header on a play that was begun by Lukaku and led to a cross from Matteo Politano that Anguissa nodded in.

Lukaku then set up Scott McTominay inside the area before the Scotland midfielder was fouled by Manuel Locatelli to set up a penalty for Lukaku.

As usual, Lukaku paused in his run up, watched as Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio fell to his left and then deposited his spot kick into the other side of the net.

It was Lukaku's 200th goal in Europe's top five leagues.

Mateo Retegui scored a second-half brace to boost his league-leading total to 16 goals as Atalanta won at Como.

Gian Piero Gasperini’s side remained six points behind Napoli, which beat Atalanta in Bergamo last weekend.

Napoli was hosting Juventus later and defending champion Inter visits relegation-threatened Lecce on Sunday.

After winning 11 straight, Atalanta had gone winless in four matches entering the game in Como.

Nico Paz put Como ahead on the half-hour mark. Retegui equalized by redirecting in a cross from substitute Marco Brescianini with one touch in the 56th and then put Atalanta ahead 14 minutes later by redirecting another cross from Brescianini, this time with two touches.

Como, which is 13th, won 3-2 at Atalanta in September.

Atalanta’s emblematic midfielder Marten de Roon exited during the break after a knock to the head.

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Napoli's Scott McTominay, top, is brought down by Juventus' Manuel Locatelli leading to a penalty kick during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's head coach Antonio Conte directs his players during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Juventus' Randal Kolo Muani scores the team's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's Romelu Lukaku celebrates after scoring the team's second goal during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's Romelu Lukaku scores from the penalty spot for the team's second goal during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's Romelu Lukaku, front right, celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Juventus' Randal Kolo Muani, center, celebrates after scoring the team's first goal during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Juventus at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Como 1907's Yannik Engelhardt, left, and Atalanta BC's Ademola Lookman in action during the Serie A soccer match between Como and Atalanta at the Giuseppe Sinigaglia stadium in Como, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Antonio Saia/LaPresse via AP)

Como 1907's Nico Paz, right, celebrates scoring with teammates during the Serie A soccer match between Como and Atalanta at the Giuseppe Sinigaglia stadium in Como, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Antonio Saia/LaPresse via AP)

Como 1907's Nico Paz, left, and Atalanta BC's Mateo Retegui in action during the Serie A soccer match between Como and Atalanta at the Giuseppe Sinigaglia stadium in Como, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Antonio Saia/LaPresse via AP)

Atalanta BC's Mateo Retegui, right, celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Como and Atalanta at the Giuseppe Sinigaglia stadium in Como, Italy, Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. (Antonio Saia/LaPresse via AP)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritant at activists Tuesday during another day of confrontations in Minneapolis, while students miles away walked out of a suburban school to protest the Trump administration's bold immigration sweeps.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an immigration agent reached the local U.S. Attorney's Office: At least five prosecutors have resigned amid controversy over how the U.S. Justice Department is handling the investigation, according to people familiar with the matter.

Separately, a Justice Department official said Wednesday there's no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation. An FBI probe of Renee Good's death is ongoing.

Strife between federal agents and the public continues to boil, six days since Good was shot in the head while driving off in her Honda Pilot. At one scene, gas clouds filled a Minneapolis street near where she died. A man scrubbed his eyes with snow and screamed for help after agents in a Jeep sprayed an orange irritant and drove off.

It’s common for people to boo, taunt and blow orange whistles when they spot heavily armed immigration agents passing through in unmarked vehicles or walking the streets, all part of a grassroots effort to warn the neighborhood and remind the government that they’re watching.

“Who doesn't have a whistle?” a man with a bag of them yelled.

Brita Anderson, who lives nearby and came to support neighborhood friends, said she was “incensed” to see agents in tactical gear and gas masks, and wondered about their purpose.

“It felt like the only reason they’d come here is to harass people,” Anderson said.

In Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, students protesting the immigration enforcement operation walked out of school, as students in other communities have done this week.

Later, a large crowd gathered outside a hotel in Minneapolis banging drums and blowing whistles as officers wearing helmets and carrying batons stood guard just inside. Meanwhile, confrontations erupted between protesters and officers guarding the federal building being used as a base for the Twin Cities crackdown.

The departures in the U.S. Attorney's Office include First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, who had been leading the sprawling prosecution of public fraud schemes in the state, according to people who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.

With the Department of Homeland Security pledging to send more than 2,000 immigration officers into Minnesota, the state, joined by Minneapolis and St. Paul, sued President Donald Trump’s administration Monday to halt or limit the surge.

The lawsuit says Homeland Security is violating the First Amendment and other constitutional protections by focusing on a progressive state that favors Democrats and welcomes immigrants.

“What we are seeing is thousands — plural — thousands of federal agents coming into our city. And, yeah, they’re having a tremendous impact on day-to-day life,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said.

A judge set a status conference for Wednesday.

Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December and is vowing to not back down. Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, responding to the lawsuit, accused Minnesota officials of ignoring public safety.

In a different lawsuit, a judge said she would rule by Thursday or Friday on a request to restrict the use of force, such as chemical irritants, on people who are observing and recording agents' activities. Government attorneys argued that officers must protect themselves.

The Trump administration has repeatedly defended the immigration agent who shot Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, saying he acted in self-defense. But that explanation has been widely panned by Frey, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others based on videos of the confrontation.

State and local authorities are urging the public to share video and any other evidence as they seek to separately investigate Good's death after federal authorities insisted they would approach it alone and not share information.

In Wisconsin, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is proposing that the state ban civil immigration enforcement around courthouses, hospitals, health clinics, schools, churches and other places. She is hoping to succeed Gov. Tony Evers, a fellow Democrat, who is not running for a third term.

“We can take a look at that, but I think banning things absolutely will ramp up the actions of our folks in Washington, D.C.,” Evers said, referring to the Trump administration. “They don’t tend to approach those things appropriately.”

Associated Press reporters Ed White in Detroit; Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis; and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed.

Monica Travis shares an embrace while visiting a makeshift memorial for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

A protester is detained by Federal agents near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis.(AP Photo/Adam Gray)

A protester grabs a tear gas grenade deployed by federal immigration officers near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

A protester is sprayed with pepper spray by a Federal agent Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis.(AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Tear gas is deployed amid protesters near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis.(AP Photo/Adam Gray)

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Tear gas is deployed amid protesters near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

A protester is detained by Federal agents near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis.(AP Photo/Adam Gray)(AP Photo/Adam Gray)

A protester grabs a tear gas grenade deployed by federal immigration officers near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Fireworks are set off by protesters outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Federal immigration officers detain a demonstrator outside Bishop Whipple Federal Building after tear gas was deployed Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Federal immigration officers are seen outside Bishop Whipple Federal Building after tear gas was deployed Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Federal agents drive through smoke from tear gas dispersed during a protest, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 in Minneapolis (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

A protester's face is doused in water after he was pepper sprayed outside of the Bishop Whipple Federal Building, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - A man gestures as he walks toward a cloud of tear gas that was deployed by federal immigration officers Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Protesters try to avoid tear gas dispersed by federal agents, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 in Minneapolis (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Federal agents get ready to disperse tear gas into a crowd at a protest, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 in Minneapolis (AP Photo/Adam Gray)