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Serie A week 35 wrap

Posted by Juan Arango 4.25.2010


Giampaolo Pazzini's brace puts Inter top again and Sampdoria in Champions League (Football.co.uk)



It seems like Inter will win their fifth straight Scudetto after they defeated Atalanta and Roma fell at home to Sampdoria. Although the reality of the moment makes one see that Inter have a slightly tougher schedule than Roma, but there is one match that could be under the watchful eye of many in Italy.  Inter will visit relegation- compromised Lazio.  Will Lazio fight Inter tooth and nail?  Will they allow Inter to beat them in order to prevent their eternal city rivals to not win the Scudetto?

Simone Tiribocch's 11th goal of the season gave hopes to the giallorossi faithful with his goal in the fifth minute.  But Inter came back with a vengeance and scored three goals courtesy of Diego Milito, Cristian Chivu, and Sulley Muntari that helped propel them to the top of the standings.

Meanwhile Francesco Totti put Roma ahead the 14th minute with a venomous strike.  For Totti that was his 19th goal of the season and his team was ready to make it big.  But defensively the wheels came off as Antonio Cassano and Giampaolo Pazzini shredded the romanista backline and came away with an impressive 2-1 result for La Samp's European dreams.  Pazzini scored a brace with an incredible header and then capped it off with the game-winner which propelled them into Champions League positions.







Siena and Livorno were officially relegated today.  Siena lost in convincing fashion to Udinese 4-1 and Livorno would beat Catania 3-1.  All of this  was for naught as Bologna would beat Parma 2-1 at the Renato Dell'Ara courtesy of a brace by Marco Di Vaio and assured the bottom two teams of having to play next season in Serie B.

Juventus handled Bari easily 3-0 while Palermo defeated AC Milan in Sicily 3-1.


Scores
Saturday
Atalanta 1-3 Inter

Palermo 3-1 AC Milan

Sunday

Juventus  3-0 Bari

Bologna 2-1 Parma

Livorno 3-1 Catania

Fiorentina 0-2 Chievo Verona

Napoli 0-0 Cagliari

Genoa 1-2 Lazio

Udinese 4-1 Siena

AS Roma 1-2 Sampdoria

Standings

Champions League:  Roma, Inter
Champions League Qualifiers:  AC Milan, Sampdoria
Europa League*:  Palermo, Juventus
Relegation:  Bologna, x-Siena, x-Livorno
x- relegated to Serie B
*One more spot will be obtained out of Coppa Italia


Capo Cannoniere race
Antonio Di Natale UDI      26
Diego Milito  INT              20
Fabrizio Miccoli PAL        18
Giampaolo Pazzini SAM    17
Alberto Gilardino FIO        15

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