Sunday's Serie A Roundup
2008-12-08 01:34:17
AC Milan and Juventus narrowed the gap on Serie A leaders Inter Milan back to six points on Sunday.
AC Milan and Juventus narrowed the gap on Serie A leaders Inter Milan back to six points on Sunday.
Kaka scored the only goal of the game for Milan against Catania in the 65th minute after it had looked like Carlo Ancelotti's side were going to come away with only a point.
Despite all their chances, they struggled to beat Albano Bizzarri until a fortunate deflection finally defeated the Catania goalkeeper to keep Milan in a share of second place with Juventus, their opponents in Turin next weekend.
An 89th-minute goal from Amauri saw Juve snatch a dramatic 2-1 victory at Lecce.
Substitute Daniele Cacia looked to have earned a point for the hosts when he struck seven minutes from time to cancel out a 57th-minute free-kick by Sebastian Giovinco, who was making only his third league start of the season.
But Brazilian Amauri had the last word, heading home Paolo de Ceglie's cross a minute from time to secure the points at the Stadio Via del Mare and keep Lecce just one point above the drop zone.
Fiorentina inflicted a ninth Serie A defeat of the season on struggling Torino with an emphatic 4-1 victory at Turin's Stadio Olimpico.
The Viola took an early lead through Adrian Mutu before Alberto Gilardino doubled the visitors' advantage.
Zdravko Kuzmanovic made it three after the break and, although Alessandro Rosina pulled a goal back from the penalty spot, Gilardino bagged his second late on to restore Fiorentina's three-goal cushion.
A goal from Serie A's top scorer Diego Milito decided the Genoa city derby as the 'away' team Genoa beat their hosts Sampdoria.
The Stadio Luigi Ferraris has been a happy hunting ground for Genoa this season and, even as the nominal visitors, they maintained their unbeaten record there thanks to Milito's 50th-minute header.
Sampdoria had two goals disallowed in an action-packed second half after the first 45 minutes had disappointed.
Napoli got back to winning ways in Serie A as second-half goals from Christian Maggio and substitute German Denis saw off Siena 2-0.
The hosts had seen their six-game winning run in the league end with a draw at the hands of Cagliari last time out at the Stadio Sao Paolo - but this result puts Napoli back on track.
A controversial Michele Fini goal was enough to earn Cagliari a barely-deserved 1-0 victory over a Palermo side whose performance was worthy of at least a point.
Fini's 34th-minute strike had Palermo screaming for offside but the referee waved their complaints away and despite the visitors' second-half domination they could not find the equaliser.
It meant that it was a miserable return to his former club for Palermo coach Davide Ballardini, whose team remain in 11th spot.
Udinese's alarming slide continued at the Atleti Azzurri d'Italia stadium where they were brushed aside 3-0 by a merciless Atalanta side.
Christian Vieri and Cristiano Doni struck late on after Jaime Valdes had broken the deadlock with his second goal of the season.
Strugglers Reggina and Bologna played out an entertaining 2-2 draw, although a point apiece was not enough to see either side climb out of the relegation zone.
Bologna will be the happier of the two after twice coming from behind to claim a share of the spoils.
Bernardo Corradi and Edgar Barreto scored for Reggina with Francesco Valiani and Marco Di Vaio replying for the visitors with all four goals coming in a frantic 20-minute spell either side of half-time.
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