Round 5: "Messina" rose to second place © EuroFootball.com

Over the weekend, nine matches of the fifth round of the Italian championship were played. In the leader position remains "Juventus", who won away against "Udinese", in second place is the newcomer of the league "Messina", who crushed the "Siena" team at home.

The country's champion "Milan" after a tough victory against "Reggina" moved up to third place, sharing fourth place with the clubs "Chievo", "Cagliari", and "Palermo", who all won by a minimal margin.

"Lazio" played a draw away against "Atalanta" and now has 8 points along with the defeated "Lecce". The only match that ended with a draw without goals was the game between "Parma" and "Fiorentina". Meanwhile, this evening in the central round of matches, "Roma" will face "Inter".

Tournament table

Results:

2 - 1

13' [1 - 0] Gianfranco Zola (pen.) 38' [1 - 1] Andrea Caracciolo 82' [2 - 1] Antonio Langella

2 - 1

58' [1 - 0] Roberto Baronio 79' [2 - 0] Simone Tiribocchi 90+2' [2 - 1] Mirko Vucinic

1 - 1

9' [1 – 0] Carmine Gautieri 85' [1 – 1] Roberto Muzzi

4 - 1

33' [1 – 0] Alessandro Parisi 35' [2 – 0] Arturo Di Napoli 39' [2 – 1] Daniele Portanova 54' [3 – 1] Arturo Di Napoli 83' [4 – 1] Nicola Amoruso

3 - 1

11' [1 – 0] Andrey Shevchenko 59' [1 – 1] Ivan Franceschini 66' [2 – 1] Kaka 88' [3 – 1] Andrey Shevchenko

1 - 0

45' [1 – 0] Franco Brienza

0 - 0

2 - 0

78' [1 – 0] Fausto Rossini 88' [2 – 0] Aimo Diana

0 - 1

61' [0 – 1] Marcelo Zalayeta