Inter and Roma set the pace again

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.

For Fiorentina Mutu and Ujfalusi were back from injury and Inter were without Figo and Vieira. Cesare Prandelli, the Fiorentina coach, lost his wife Manuela last Monday and there was a minute's silence before the game. Chilean Luis Jimenez scored the first in the 10th minute with a perfectly placed drive past Frey in the Fiorentina goal. Cruz scored with his right foot with seconds to go in the first half. With no further goals in the second half that left Inter a certain three points ahead at the top of Serie A.

Roma hosted Udinese who had already done well against Inter, Juve and others this season. Juan's 10th minute goal opened the scoring with the Brazillian defender putting away a ball that the keeper had parried from a Giuly strike. It took less than two minutes for Udinese to equalize through Quagliarella who took the ball on the edge of the area turned and fired into the corner of the net. Taddei, back from injury, scored the winner in the 27th minute after Udinese failed to clear. With twelve minutes to go Udinese substitute Pinzi brought down Juan and Dossena's protests led to a red card for him as well as Pinzi, leaving Udinese with nine men.

At the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, on Saturday evening, the two sides that dominated in the nineties played out a 0-0 draw. So Milan still haven't won at the San Siro this season, but amazingly are in 8th place in the table. The game had nearly everything: posts were hit, reaction saves were made, penalties were appealed for and dubious offsides were either given or not given. Only the goals were missing. Sunday morning Kaka was in Paris collecting his Ballon d'Or trophy from 'France Football' for player of 2007. He paraded it in Milan's Piazza Duomo in front of 2,000 fans and pledged to stay with Milan for many years.

THIS WEEK'S RESULTS

  Atalanta   5-1 Napoli
   Cagliari  0-0 Livorno
    Catania  3-1 Palermo
 Fiorentina  0-2 Inter
      Milan  0-0 Juventus(Sat eve.)
      Parma  1-0 Empoli
       Roma  2-1 Udinese
  Sampdoria  3-0 Reggina (Sat 15.00)
      Siena  1-1 Lazio
     Torino  1-1 Genoa (eve.)


SERIE A TABLE

             Pts   P   W   D   L   F   A  
Inter        31   13   9   4   0  26   8
Roma         28   13   8   4   1  28  17
Juventus     26   14   7   5   2  29  13
Udinese      25   14   7   4   3  17  15
Fiorentina   24   14   6   6   2  19  11
Atalanta     21   13   5   6   2  21  16
Sampdoria    20   14   6   2   6  18  17
Milan        18   13   4   6   3  20  10
Napoli       18   14   5   3   6  22  20
Catania      18   14   4   6   4  14  14
Palermo      18   14   4   6   4  18  24
Torino       15   14   2   9   3  14  15
Genoa        15   14   3   6   5  13  19
Parma        15   14   3   6   5  16  22
Lazio        14   13   3   5   5  13  17
Livorno      13   14   3   4   7  17  25
Siena        10   14   1   7   6  13  21
Cagliari     10   13   2   4   7  11  20
Reggina      10   14   1   7   6   9  21
Empoli       10   14   2   4   8   7  20

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