Juventus suffer set back against CagliariSource: International Herald Tribune
Juventus' hopes of catching Serie A league leaders Inter Milan suffered a major blow on Saturday when it lost 3-2 at home to Cagliari.
Moggi: Italy Still CorruptSource: goal.com
Former Juventus transfer guru Luciano Moggi insists that Calciopoli has not cleaned up the Italian game, and says that the corrupt figures who want to control Calcio are still able to do so. He also said that those who drove him out of the game were just jealous of his success.
Muscat relishes Juve symbolismSource: The Age
Melbourne Victory skipper Kevin Muscat has led out a team in an FA Cup final, played in the English Premier League and for Scottish Premier League giant Rangers. So he is not likely to suffer too much from nerves when Victory takes on Juventus at Telstra Dome on Friday night.
Juventus star set for Dome Source: Australian News Network
Former European Footballer of the Year Pavel Nedved has shelved retirement plans, ensuring he will be in the Juventus touring party when it plays Melbourne Victory at the end of the month.
Victory sets up Juventus clashSource: The Age
Melbourne Victory is set to take on Italian giant Juventus in a big-money friendly at the end of May at the Telstra Dome.
A Parma fan, 27 year-old Metteo Bagnaresi, was run over by a bus being driven by a Juventus supporter. Although the official line is that it was a tragic accident, there were fears of reprisals and crowd trouble.
In midweek Roma lost the Derby match against Lazio 3-2 and Inter could only manage a 1-1 draw away to Genoa. This left Roma seven points behind.
Roma travelled to the Stadio San Paolo today determined not to do what Inter did last week and lose to Napoli. With Inter winning on Saturday evening it was probably a case of win this or say goodbye to any hopes of the Scudetto.
At the Stadio San Paolo in Napoli Inter suffered their first defeat of the season this evening and, with Roma thrashing Parma 4-0 yesterday that means that Inter's lead is now reduced to just six points.
With Juventus losing on Saturday evening to Reggina, this was Roma's chance to widen the gap between themselves and Juve who were breathing down their necks, just one place and one point behind them in third place.
Playing at home, at the Stadio Olimpico, Roma made heavy weather of beating Palermo, a side who have failed to live up to their promise of last season.
Parma haven't won away to Inter since 1999, so nobody was expecting them to do well on this foggy night in Milan. Inter played their new acquisition from Athletico Madrid: Nuno Maniche and Parma had former Livorno striker Lucarelli on the bench.
This evening at the Stadio Sant'Elia Inter edged past lowly Cagliari with two second half goals that leave them seven points clear at the top of Serie A.
Inter took Torino to the cleaners at the San Siro this afternoon, and with Roma only managing a draw Inter now have a five point lead at the top of Serie A.
In a top of the table match, Inter came out winners 0-2 on their trip to play Fiorentina with Ibrahimovic laying on both their goals.
I've been away for a few days so this will have to be a quick review of this week's Serie A.
Soccer: murder charge in fan deathSource: ansa.it
A policeman who shot an Italian soccer fan dead on Sunday is now facing murder charges, the policeman's lawyer said Thursday.
This morning a Lazio football fan was shot dead by police during a clash between rival supporters at a Motorway service area on the A1, near to Arezzo in Tuscany, Italy.
At the Stadio Barbera Dejan Stankovic was stretchered off and Inter faltered, failing to score, although they hit Palermo's crossbar. With Inter slipping-up it was down to the chasing pack to make sure that they won their games.
The European champions AC Milan have been finding it difficult to find form in this year's Serie A. This evening they travelled to Rome to take on Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico. Suffering from something of a goal drought Milan really needed to find form.
The game of the week was played on Saturday evening between Roma and Inter. Both teams were unbeaten going into this game, although Roma had only managed to draw their last two games.
There was a full set of games in Serie A this evening with a few surprises. At the end of the evening we have Roma and Inter on 11 points. Roma could only manage a 2-2 draw against Fiorentina; Mancini and Giuly scored for Roma, Gamberini and Mutu (penalty) for Fiorentina.
This weekend saw the first game between two of the big four teams in Serie A. Roma, on full points and with a clean sheet, played host to Juventus.
In a tight game in which three shots from Alessandro Del Piero found the woodwork, rather than the net, it was a goal by Antonio Di Natale that presented Udinese with a surprise win in Turin this afternoon.