Paulo Dybala scored his first goal of 2025 to help a much-changed Roma team to a 1-0 win at relegation-threatened Venezia in Serie A on Sunday.

Dybala powerfully converted a second-half penalty after his teammate Angeliño was tripped by the Venezia defender Alessandro Marcandalli. The Roma manager, Claudio Ranieri, had opted to rotate his team ahead of Thursday’s Europa League playoff first leg against Porto.

Venezia stay second from bottom in Serie A, three points above Monza and five below safety. Roma remain ninth.

Lazio moved back into fourth place with a dominant 5-1 win over the bottom club, Monza. Adam Marusic’s header gave Lazio a slender lead at the break and the floodgates opened in the second half with Pedro Rodríguez scoring twice and Taty Castellanos and Faruq Dele-Bashiru adding the others for the home team.

Lazio leapfrogged two points above Juventus. They are nine points below Napoli ahead of the Serie A leader’s match against Udinese later on Sunday.

Paulo Fonseca pledged to bring attacking football back to Lyon, and his players obeyed him by routing Reims 4-0 in Ligue 1.

Fonseca took over as manager at the end of January when Pierre Sage was sacked after six games without a win.

In Fonseca’s first game in charge, Lyon played well despite losing 3-2 at Marseille last weekend. This time they completely dominated against Reims, with four different scorers underlining the slick teamwork.

After the left-back Nicolás Tagliafico volleyed in a cross from Corentin Tolisso late in the first half, Tolisso headed in Rayan Cherki’s cross midway through the second.

Cherki made it 3-0 in the 79th minute and, after the Reims midfielder Patrick Zabi was shown a red card, Georgia’s Georges Mikautadze turned in a cross from the lively Cherki.

The win moved Lyon above Lens into sixth place and two points behind Lille in fifth. Reims stay 14th.