VERONA, Italy (AP) — Substitute Gvidas Gineitis scored with eight minutes left for Torino to draw at Lazio 1-1 in Serie A on Monday and extend its unbeaten run to five games.
Adam Marušić put the home side ahead with a stunning strike 12 minutes into the second half.
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Torino's Che Adams, right, and Lazio's Alessio Romagnoli battle for the ball during the Italian Serie A soccer match between SS Lazio and Torino FC at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
Torino's Guillermo Maripan gestures during the Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Torino at Rome's Olympic stadium, in Rome, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Verona's Ami Sarr, left, and Parma's Emanuele Valeri vie for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Parma at the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, in Verona, Italy, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Paola Garbuio/LaPresse via AP)
Verona's Ami Sarr, left, and Parma's Emanuele Valeri vie for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Parma at the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, in Verona, Italy, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Paola Garbuio/LaPresse via AP)
Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki grabs the ball ahead of Verona's Ami Sarr during the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Parma at the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, in Verona, Italy, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Paola Garbuio/LaPresse via AP)
Lazio had a penalty award withdrawn after a video review 10 minutes later and it continued to create most of the chances.
But Lithuanian midfielder Gineitis side-footed home the equalizer and lifted Torino to within one point of the top half of Serie A. Paolo Vanoli’s men remain unbeaten since a Valentine’s Day defeat at Bologna.
Lazio, meanwhile, was seventh, equal on points with city rival Roma.
Earlier, Verona and Parma drew 0-0, a result that did not ease either side’s relegation worries.
Neither club was able to impose itself in a game of few chances. Daniel Mosquera came closest for Verona when his early header came back off the post.
With eight games left in the season, Parma was just three points above the drop zone. Verona was two places and four points above it and still not out of danger.
Parma's last win was on Feb. 22.
Verona, meanwhile, missed a chance to record back-to-back wins for the first time in more than a year.
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Torino's Che Adams, right, and Lazio's Alessio Romagnoli battle for the ball during the Italian Serie A soccer match between SS Lazio and Torino FC at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
Torino's Guillermo Maripan gestures during the Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Torino at Rome's Olympic stadium, in Rome, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Verona's Ami Sarr, left, and Parma's Emanuele Valeri vie for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Parma at the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, in Verona, Italy, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Paola Garbuio/LaPresse via AP)
Verona's Ami Sarr, left, and Parma's Emanuele Valeri vie for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Parma at the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, in Verona, Italy, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Paola Garbuio/LaPresse via AP)
Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki grabs the ball ahead of Verona's Ami Sarr during the Serie A soccer match between Hellas Verona and Parma at the Marcantonio Bentegodi Stadium, in Verona, Italy, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Paola Garbuio/LaPresse via AP)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to meet Thursday at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected by then-President Nicolás Maduro before the United States captured him in an audacious military raid this month.
Less than two weeks after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges, Trump will host the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Machado, having already dismissed her credibility to run Venezuela and raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in the country.
“She’s a very nice woman,” Trump told Reuters in an interview about Machado. “I’ve seen her on television. I think we’re just going to talk basics.”
The meeting comes as Trump and his top advisers have signaled their willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and along with others in the deposed leader's inner circle remain in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.
Rodríguez herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move reportedly made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.
Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.
“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump told reporters. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”
In endorsing Rodríguez, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela. She had sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key advisers like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a political gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government. She also intends to have a meeting in the Senate on Thursday afternoon.
Despite her alliance with Republicans, Trump was quick to snub her following Maduro’s capture. Just hours afterward, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country. She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.”
Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump coveted. She has since thanked Trump and offered to share the prize with him, a move that has been rejected by the Nobel Institute.
Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.
Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.
Janetsky reported from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)
