Inter Milan shares Serie A lead after beating Cremonese

MILAN (AP) — Lautaro Martinez moved into the top five on Inter Milan’s all-time scoring list with an early goal to launch the Nerazzurri's 4-1 win over previously unbeaten Cremonese in Serie A on Saturday.

Inter moved level with AC Milan, defending champion Napoli and Roma atop the Italian league standings. Those three clubs play on Sunday. It was the Nerazzurri's fifth straight win across all competitions.

Six minutes in at the San Siro, Lautaro used one touch to finish off a counterattack. Ange-Yoan Bonny scored and provided three assists and Federico Dimarco and Nicolò Barella added more goals for Inter before Federico Bonazzoli pulled one back for Cremonese.

With 158 goals across all competitions , Lautaro moved level in fifth place with Luigi Cevenini on Inter’s scoring list, trailing only Giuseppe Meazza (284 goals), Alessandro Altobelli (209), Roberto Boninsegna (171) and Sandro Mazzola (161).

Lautaro’s goal began with Barella stripping Cremonese of possession and feeding Bonny on the left flank. Bonny, playing in place of the injured Marcus Thuram, then crossed for Lautaro.

Bonny headed in a cross from Dimarco to make it 2-0 before the break.

Dimarco scored with a long, low shot following a corner and Barella added another two minutes later following a full team move.

Cremonese recently won at the San Siro when the promoted club stunned AC Milan on the opening weekend.

Former Leicester standout Jamie Vardy went on in the 58th for Cremonese.

Como and Atalanta drew 1-1 in a regional derby.

Lazar Samardzic put Atalanta ahead early on and Maximo Perrone equalized for Como with what appeared to be an attempt at a cross that sailed in off the post and had to be confirmed by goal-line technology.

Earlier, Lazio and Torino drew 3-3 in a match decided by a penalty kick from Lazio midfielder Danilo Cataldi 13 minutes into stoppage time – after Saúl Coco put Torino ahead three minutes into stoppage time.

In the first half, Matteo Cancellieri scored twice for Lazio to become the youngest Lazio player at 23 to net a brace for the Roman club since 2018 when Sergej Milinkovic-Savic did it at 22.

Lecce won at Parma 1-0 for its first victory of the season with a first-half goal from Riccardo Sottil.

Later, Atalanta was hosting Como in a regional derby.

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Lecce's Riccardo Sottil celebrates at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Parma and Lecce at Ennio Tardini Stadium in Parma, northern Italy, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Lazio's Matteo Cancellieri celebrates scoring his side's second goal during a Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Torino at the Rome's Olympic stadium, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)

Inter Milan's Ange-Yoan Bonny celebrates with Inter Milan's Federico Dimarco after scoring his side's second goal during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Cremonese at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Inter Milan's Lautaro Martinez, left, celebrates with Inter Milan's Ange-Yoan Bonny after scoring his side's opening goal during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Cremonese at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Inter Milan's Lautaro Martinez celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Cremonese at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system's federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late Friday in a sharply worded decision.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction barring the administration from cancelling funding to UC based on alleged discrimination without giving notice to affected faculty and conducting a hearing, among other requirements.

The administration over the summer demanded the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. UCLA was the first public university to be targeted by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations.

It has also frozen or paused federal funding over similar claims against private colleges, including Columbia University.

In her ruling, Lin said labor unions and other groups representing UC faculty, students and employees had provided “overwhelming evidence” that the Trump administration was “engaged in a concerted campaign to purge ‘woke,’ ‘left,’ and ‘socialist’ viewpoints from our country’s leading universities."

“Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune,” Lin wrote.

She added, "It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California."

At UC, which is facing a series of civil rights probes, she found the administration had engaged in “coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment.”

Messages sent to the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice after hours Friday were not immediately returned. Lin's order will remain in effect indefinitely.

University of California President James B. Milliken has said the size of the UCLA fine would devastate the UC system, whose campuses are viewed as some of the top public colleges in the nation.

UC is in settlement talks with the administration and is not a party to the lawsuit before Lin, who was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, a Democrat. In a statement, the university system said it “remains committed to protecting the mission, governance, and academic freedom of the University.”

The administration has demanded UCLA comply with its views on gender identity and establish a process to make sure foreign students are not admitted if they are likely to engage in anti-American, anti-Western or antisemitic “disruptions or harassment,” among other requirements outlined in a settlement proposal made public in October.

The administration has previously struck deals with Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million.

Lin cited declarations by UC faculty and staff that the administration’s moves were prompting them to stop teaching or researching topics they were “afraid were too ‘left’ or ‘woke.’”

Her injunction also blocks the administration from “conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC’s agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs’ members under the First Amendment.”

She cited efforts to force the UCs to screen international students based on “’anti-Western” or “‘anti-American’” views, restrict research and teaching, or adopt specific definitions of “male” and “female” as examples of such measures.

President Donald Trump has decried elite colleges as overrun by liberalism and antisemitism.

His administration has launched investigations of dozens of universities, claiming they have failed to end the use of racial preferences in violation of civil rights law. The Republican administration says diversity, equity and inclusion efforts discriminate against white and Asian American students.

FILE - Students walk past Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Aug. 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

President Donald Trump waves as he walks to board Marine One, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington for a trip to Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)