ROME (AP) — Substitute Federico Gatti equalized in stoppage time and Juventus came back from two goals down to earn a 3-3 draw at Roma in Serie A on Sunday.
Gatti, who had come on in the 88th minute, scored from close range following a free kick.
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Torino's Duvan Zapata celebrates after scoring a goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Torino and Lazio in Turin, Italy, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Tano Pecoraro/LaPresse via AP)
Juventus's Francisco Conceicao celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Roma's Wesley, right, and Juventus's Weston McKennie in action during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Fabrizio Corradetti/LaPresse via AP)
Roma's Wesley celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Juventus's Francisco Conceicao, left, and Roma's Niccolo' Pisilli in action during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Fabrizio Corradetti/LaPresse via AP)
The result kept Juventus within four points of fourth-place Roma and the final Champions League spot.
Wesley put Roma ahead with a long curler late in the first half and then Evan Ndicka and Donyell Malen added second-half scores for the Giallorossi after Francisco Conceicao had equalized for Juventus.
Jeremie Boga scored for Juventus in the 78th to create a tense finish at the Stadio Olimpico, with former Roma coach Luciano Spalletti loudly urging his squad on for the equalizer.
AC Milan needed two late goals to secure a 2-0 win at Cremonese and bounce back from its second loss of the season.
Strahinja Pavlovic scored in the 90th and Rafael Leão added another five minutes into stoppage time for Milan, which had wasted a series of chances earlier on.
Second-place Milan moved back within 10 points of Italian league leader Inter Milan ahead of next weekend’s derby.
Milan’s only league losses this season came against Cremonese in its opener in August and at home against Parma last weekend.
Pavlovic’s goal came following a corner, and a VAR review that confirmed the ball went in off his shoulder instead of his arm.
Then Leão finished off a counterattack.
Also, Sassuolo beat Atalanta 2-1 with Armand Laurienté setting up both goals for the hosts; and Torino beat Lazio 2-0 with goals from Giovanni Simeone and Duvan Zapata.
American midfielder Yunus Musah scored in the 88th minute for Atalanta, his first competitive club goal since Jan. 22, 2022, for Valencia against Atletico Madrid.
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Torino's Duvan Zapata celebrates after scoring a goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Torino and Lazio in Turin, Italy, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Tano Pecoraro/LaPresse via AP)
Juventus's Francisco Conceicao celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Roma's Wesley, right, and Juventus's Weston McKennie in action during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Fabrizio Corradetti/LaPresse via AP)
Roma's Wesley celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
Juventus's Francisco Conceicao, left, and Roma's Niccolo' Pisilli in action during the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Juventus FC in Rome, Italy, Sunday March 1, 2026. (Fabrizio Corradetti/LaPresse via AP)
Spirit Airlines, the scrappy discounter that once rattled the industry with cheeky ads and rock-bottom fares, took its final flight after 34 years of upending the business of flying.
Once worth as much as roughly $5.5 billion on the stock market, the airline known for its bright yellow planes said Saturday it had shut down after its final flight departed from Detroit and landed safely in Dallas.
“For more than 30 years, Spirit Airlines has played a pioneering role in making travel more accessible and bringing people together while driving affordability across the industry,” CEO Dave Davis said in a statement.
The announcement comes after two bankruptcy filings in as many years that allowed Spirit to repay lenders. That was followed in recent months by a final, mad-dash scramble to save money by cutting routes, squeezing concessions from unions and pursuing a potential financing deal with the Trump administration that could have provided a lifeline had it panned out.
But in the end, higher jet fuel prices triggered by the Iran war drained cash from the business at an accelerating pace, forcing it to call it quits.
“This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted," Davis said.
It began as Charter One Airlines, which ran vacation tours in the early 80s, then grew in popularity and profits two decades later with no-frills “unbundled” fares allowing travelers to forgo basic services — bag handling, seat selection, even the printing of tickets — or pay extra.
Proudly penny-pinching and irritatingly so for many passengers, Spirit was for years run by the famously frugal Ben Baldanza, who ordered his burgers plain, bristled at paying extra for pickles he didn't want, and flew in the same cramped seats as his customers. He was unapologetic about the airline’s nickel-and-diming them, saying the issue wasn’t that Spirit was cheap, but that passengers were seeing an itemized bill for the first time — and didn’t like it.
For all the complaints, though, Spirit’s model became so influential that giant airlines with decades more operating history and global destinations found they had to follow suit by slashing prices and introducing “basic economy” fares.
On its final day of operations, Spirit had safely flown more than 50,000 passengers, a company spokesperson said. The airline was also working to get more than 1,300 crew members back home. About 17,000 employees — some with more than 25 years at the airline — learned Friday they had lost their jobs, many finding out through media reports, the spokesperson said.
Despite its abrupt end, Spirit left behind a reputation that was impossible to ignore.
Kendria Talton, who flew Friday on Spirit from Dallas to Atlanta with her daughter for a dance competition, arrived at the airport Saturday trying to find a new way home.
Talton said she had flown Spirit multiple times because of the price. “Other than that, I mean nobody even likes Spirit,” she said. “They’ve always talked about Spirit for years.”
A key part of that image came from its bold, over-the-top ads that some critics slammed as tasteless and indeed sometimes backfired.
After the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, the company ran a “Check Out the Oil on Our Beaches” ad, playing on the double entendre of suntan oil and the real black stuff.
Next up was a “Weiner Sale” after New York Congressman Anthony Weiner was caught in a sexting scandal, an ad that also included the line, “fares just too hard to resist.” Later came its infamous “MILF Sale,” referring to “Many Islands, Low Fares,” but also referencing, with a wink and a nod, to the sexual acronym.
Ironically, Spirit was also taken down by its own success as more traditional airlines mimicked its offering and began to steal its customers with their own low fares.
In the liquidation, ticket holders will be issued refunds for flights purchased directly through Spirit with a credit or debit card. The airline said compensation for Spirit customers who booked flights using any other methods, including a voucher, credit or points, “will be determined at a later date through the bankruptcy process.”
Spirit had been struggling with losses for years, but its going-out-of-business announcement still came as a shock.
Just a few months earlier this year, Spirit said it would likely emerge from its second bankruptcy in the late spring or early summer after striking a preliminary deal with lenders.
Then the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran four days later, sending global crude prices soaring above $100. Gasoline prices followed closely behind and jet fuel prices more than doubled in some markets.
Spirit struggled especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, amid rising operational costs and its mounting debt. By its first Chapter 11 filing in November 2024, Spirit had lost more than $2.5 billion since the start of 2020.
University of Houston student Angelina Deruelle, 23, was at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport on Friday, Spirit’s final day of operations, after her flight to Texas was canceled. She said the loss of the airline as an affordable travel option would be difficult to accept.
“I feel like Spirit is just affordable, simple, nothing too fancy," she said. "It’s just like home.”
Associated Press journalists Jeff Amy in Atlanta, Michelle Chapman in New York and Daniel Kozin in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report.
FILE - A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 prepares to take off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Jan. 19, 2021, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
