5 December 2004 ROMA 1-1 SAMPDORIA Totti 84 (Pen) Pagano 81 Antonioli had an inspired game against his former club. Samp took the lead completely against the run of play on a counter attack. Bazzani flicked on a cross, the wretched Panucci was, as usual, making no one and substitute Pisano headed wide of Pelizzoli. The rubbish Tombolini awarded Roma a penalty for shirt pulling. Totti converted to equal Roberto Pruzzo's record as the clubs all time top scorer on 106 goals. Pruzzo was Serie A's top scorer three times 1981, 1982 and 1986. Samp almost stole the points at the death on another counter attack when Flachi crashed a shot against the underside of the crossbar. Attendance : 40,000 Assists : Bazzani, Dellas (won pen) CAGLIARI 4-2 CHIEVO Zola 33, 39 (Pen) Pellissier 58 Langella 45 Amauri 87 Abeijon 59 Zola opened the scoring with a fantastic free kick then blasted a penalty past Marcon. Langella scored a phenomenal third. Marcon punched out a corner to the edge of the D, Langella bounced the ball off his knee before sending a half volley screaming into the net. Katergiannakis fumbled Pellissier's snapshot before Cagliari restored their three goal lead thanks to a dreadful mistake by Marcon. Amauri headed in a late consolation goal. Attendance : 15,000 Assists : Langella (won fk), Esposito (won pen), n/a, n/a, Baronio, Luciano (ck) FIORENTINA 1-0 BOLOGNA Maresca 62 Attendance : 28,130 Assist : Miccoli (won fk) JUVENTUS 2-1 LAZIO Olivera 40 Pandev 10 Ibrahimovic 75 Muzzi headed a long ball back towards Pandev on the edge of the box, he went past Zebina and Cannavaro, checked, sending Cannavaro crashing to the ground, dribbling past Thuram towards a post before blasting the ball into the opposite corner of the net. Outstanding goal. Juve, and Del Piero in particular, missed a ton of chances before Olivera equaliser with a bullet header from Camoranesi's cross. He was substituted minutes later with a muscle problem. Kapo's cross took deflections off two Lazio players and Ibrahimovic reacted quickly to volley past Sereni. Attendance : 20,787 Assists : Muzzi, Camoranesi, n/a LECCE 3-2 LIVORNO Rullo 39 Vigiani 30 Dalla Bona 55 (Pen) Danilevicius 40 Giacomazzi 58 When a player runs half the length of the field and dribbles past several defenders to score it's a great goal but this is the Lecce defence. Rullo equalised with a stunning left foot volley, which dipped wickedly into the top corner. While the Lecce defence were appealing for offside, on a deflected pass, the brilliantly named Bubblicious scored. Ok that's not his real name but it should be. Having been robbed of two clear penalties Lecce finally got one when Alessandro Lucarelli hauled down Audio Cassetti. Giacomazzi punished Galante's stupid clearance to hit the winner three minutes later. Lecce's first win in six games. Zeman's teams usually run out of gas in the second half of the season. Maybe he should consider EPO. Attendance : 11,414 Assists : ?, n/a, n/a, Cassetti (won pen), n/a PALERMO 1-0 ATALANTA Brienza 44 Attendance : 35,000 Assist : n/a REGGINA 1-3 BRESCIA Zamboni 74 Stankevicius 18 Martinez 40 Caracciolo 80 Stankevicius blasted Brescia into the lead following great work by Schopp. Martinez scored a brilliant second late in the half. He latched onto a loose ball, took a few steps forward then unleashed a shot into the top left corner from 25 yards. Reggina were threatening from set pieces and got back in the match when Zamboni fired Colucci's free kick into the bottom corner. Shortly after Bonazzoli missed a great chance to equalise Brescia's giant striker ran between two defenders and surprised Soviero with a precise early shot. Attendance : 20,000 Assists : Schopp, n/a, Colucci, Di Biagio UDINESE 1-0 SIENA Di Natale 16 Attendance : 15,000 Red Card : Pinzi 92 (Udinese) Assist : n/a 4 December 2004 PARMA 1-2 MILAN Gilardino 67 Kaka' 79 Pirlo 89 All three goals were scored from set pieces. Gilardino, strongly linked with a move to Milan next month, punished bad defending by Pancaro to head Parma into the lead from a Bresciano free kick. Kaka' equalised with a tap-in at the far post and Pirlo smashed home the winner after Parma blew several chances to clear a corner. Attendance : 21,000 Assists : Bresciano (fk), Tomasson, Nesta INTER 5-0 MESSINA Adriano 3, 13, 36 Eleftheropoulos 55 og Vieri 85 Needless to say Messina made a dreadful start. Adriano scrambled in the opener after just three minutes. Inter lined up a free kick, everyone was expecting Adriano to take a shot at goal but instead he ran onto Mihajlovic's pass, beat a defender then hit a low shot inside the post. Adriano completed his first Serie A hat-trick with a tap-in from a corner. Toldo was sent off early in the second half for chopping down Yanigisawa outside the box. Mihajlovic's free kick rebounded off a post, hit Eleftheropoulos on the back of the head and bounced back into the net. Carini saved a penalty. Vieri did well to stay on his feet when Rezaei got a hard on for his shirt and blasted in the fifth. There's a strong chance the golden boot awarded for Europe's top scorer will go to a player from Serie A and most probably Adriano, baring injury. Serie A's top scorers usually average more goals per game than the top strikers in other leagues but, stupidly, the rankings never take the number of games played into consideration. Attendance : 55,509 Red Card : Toldo 49 (Inter) Assists : n/a, Mihajlovic (fk), n/a, n/a, Favalli R Mehdi |