Napoli keeps pressure on Serie A leader Inter by beating Fiorentina. Atalanta wins 4-0 at Juventus

MILAN (AP) — Napoli kept up the pressure on Serie A leader Inter Milan as it finally got back to winning ways with a 2-1 victory over Fiorentina on Sunday.

Romelu Lukaku scored one and set up the other for Giacomo Raspadori to help Napoli move back to within a point of Inter, which fought back from two goals down to beat Monza 3-2 on Saturday.

Atalanta proved it is very much among the fray with a statement 4-0 win at fourth-placed Juventus to close the gap back to three points to Inter.

According to statistics provider Opta, it was the first time Juventus had lost a league match at home by four goals in nearly 60 years — since a loss by the same score to Torino in October 1967.

Atalanta's title credentials will be truly tested next weekend when it hosts Inter.

Fiorentina’s hopes of making it into the top four diminished after its fourth loss in five league matches.

Napoli also came into the match on a mediocre run, having drawn four of its past five matches and losing the other.

But the hosts took the lead in the 26th minute following great work from Scott McTominay as he cut inside from the left and unleashed a shot that former Manchester United teammate David de Gea could only parry into the path of Lukaku, who tapped in the rebound.

Giovanni Di Lorenzo hit the crossbar for Napoli as Fiorentina had De Gea to thank for a number of impressive saves that kept it in the match.

Napoli eventually doubled its lead on the hour mark with a team move that ended with Lukaku playing a through ball for Raspadori to sweep into the bottom right corner.

Fiorentina pulled one back six minutes later as a backheeled flick from Moise Kean released Albert Guðmundsson to drill low into the near corner.

The match in Turin was a head-to-head battle for third place, with just three points separating Atalanta and Juventus.

The league's top scorer, Mateo Retegui, gave Atalanta the lead in the 29th from the spot after United States international Weston McKennie was penalized for handball.

It was Retegui's 22nd goal in Serie A this season — seven more than nearest challenger Kean.

A combination of the woodwork and Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio prevented Atalanta from doubling its lead on the stroke of halftime but Marten de Roon did get the visitors' second within a minute of the restart after Ademola Lookman's effort was parried.

Davide Zappacosta all but sealed the match in the 66th and Lookman capped a fantastic performance from him and Atalanta 11 minutes later.

That started a mass exodus of Juventus fans and the ones who remained loudly booed the team at full time.

Matías Soulé scored after only 22 seconds to set Roma on its way to a 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Empoli.

Opta said it was Roma's fastest goal in a Serie A match (since that data started being collected in 2004).

It was a fifth straight win in all competitions for Roma, which visits Athletic Bilbao in the second leg of the Europa League round of 16 on Thursday.

Roma also extended its unbeaten run in Serie A to 12 matches, leapfrogging Fiorentina into seventh.

Bologna continued its fine form with a 2-1 win at 10-man Hellas Verona.

That was a third straight win for sixth-place Bologna, which has only lost one league match in 2025 — a run of 11 games.

Verona is four points above the relegation zone.

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Atalanta's Marten de Roon celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Atalanta at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

Atalanta's Ademola Lookman, left, and Juventus' Federico Gatti in action during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Atalanta at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

Atalanta's Mateo Retegui celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Atalanta at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

Atalanta's Marten de Roon, left, celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Atalanta at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

Roma's Matias Soule, center right, celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Empoli and Roma at the "Carlo Castellani - Computer Gross Arena" Stadium in Empoli, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Marco Bucco/LaPresse via AP)

Fiorentina's Moise Kean, front, and Napoli's Amir Rrahmani in action during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Fiorentina at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's Romelu Lukaku, right, celebrates scoring with Giacomo Raspadori during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Fiorentina at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's Romelu Lukaku, right, celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Fiorentina at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's head coach Antonio Conte, center, celebrates after Giacomo Raspadori, left, scores during the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Fiorentina at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Sunday March 9, 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

LONDON (AP) — The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show.

Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim, filed in a Florida federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices.

The speech took place before some of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress was poised to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him.

The BBC had broadcast the documentary — titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” — days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

The broadcaster has apologized to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejects claims it defamed him. The furor triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.

Papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami say the BBC will file a motion to dismiss the case on March 17 on the basis that the court lacks jurisdiction and Trump failed to state a claim.

The broadcaster’s lawyers will argue that the BBC did not create, produce or broadcast the documentary in Florida and that Trump’s claim the documentary was available in the U.S. on streaming service BritBox is not true.

It will also argue that Trump has failed to “plausibly allege” the BBC acted with malice in airing the documentary.

Attorney Charles Tobin, for the BBC, said Trump can't prove actual damages because he won reelection by a commanding margin, and carried Florida by 13-point margin, better than his 2016 and 2020 performances. He said the documentary also couldn't have harmed his reputation because it aired after Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including allegations he “directed the crowd in front of him to go to the Capitol.”

The BBC is asking the court to postpone discovery — the pretrial process in which parties must turn over documents and other information — pending a decision on the motion to dismiss. The discovery process could require the BBC to hand over reams of emails and other materials related to its coverage of Trump.

“Engaging in unbounded merits-based discovery while the motion to dismiss is pending will subject defendants to considerable burdens and costs that will be unnecessary if the motion is granted,” Tobin wrote.

If the case continues, a 2027 trial date has been proposed.

“As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case,” the BBC said Tuesday in a statement. “We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.”

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)