Play of the matches of the 12th round of the Italian championship. The "Juventus" and "Milan" clubs continue to fight for the first place, which after this round are further distanced from chasing opponents.
"Juve" became the only team to win away in this round - they overcame "Lecce" with a minimal lead in difficult conditions. "Milan" is six points behind the Turin team, having defeated the outsider "Siena" with goals from A. Shevchenko.
Meanwhile, all nine teams behind the two leaders failed to win points: "Udinese" and "Messina" as well as "Fiorentina" and "Livorno" played to draws with equal results of 1-1, "Inter" continued their series of draws against "Cagliari", the remaining "Parma" could not defeat "Chievo", and "Sampdoria" had to admit the superiority of "Palermo".
Rome clubs had different fates today - "Lazio" in tense matches, during which three red cards were shown, defeated the "Bologna" team, while "Roma" continued their unsuccessful season and this time lost away to the "Reggina" team. In the only match of the day between "Atalanta" and "Brescia", no goals were scored.
Tournament table
Results of the 12th round:
1 - 1
12' [0 - 1] Nicola Amoruso
54' [1 - 1] David Di Michele
1 - 0
15' [1 - 0] Emiliano Bonazzoli
2 - 2
55' [1 - 0] Amauri (own goal)
60' [1 - 1] Amauri
68' [1 - 2] Cesar
77' [2 - 2] Domenico Morfeo
19' Alessandro Potenza ("Parma") sent off
2 - 0
18' [1 - 0] Luca Toni
47' [2 - 0] Franco Brienza
2 - 1
26' [1 - 0] Andriy Shevchenko
32' [1 - 1] Stefano Argilli
37' [2 - 1] Andriy Shevchenko
0 - 1
14' [0 - 1] Alessandro Del Piero
2 - 1
6' [1 - 0] Tommaso Rocchi
53' [1 - 1] Igli Tare
84' [2 - 1] Paolo Di Canio (11m.)
67' Ousmane Dabo, 90' Paolo Di Canio (both "Lazio"), Igli Tare ("Bologna") sent off
1 - 1
71' [1 - 0] Christian Rigano
77' [1 - 1] Cristiano Lucarelli
3 - 3
6' [1 - 0] Gianfranco Zola (11m.)
33' [2 - 0] Antonio Langella
35' [2 - 1] Dejan Stankovic
61' [3 - 1] Mauro Esposito
76' [3 - 2] Obafemi Martins
89' [3 - 3] Obafemi Martins
0 - 0