On Wednesday and Thursday, four more Italian Cup round of 16 second leg matches were played. After them, "Roma", Milan's "Inter", Genoa's "Sampdoria", and Verona's "Chievo" advanced securely to the quarterfinals. On Tuesday, after defeating Marius Stankevicius' club "Brescia", "Milan" also made it to the next stage. Three more round of 16 second leg matches will take place next week.
Statistics:
"Roma" 2 – 0 "Triestina" (1st leg 2-1, total result 4-1) 22‘ [1 – 0] Valerio Virga 27‘ [2 – 0] Vincenzo Montella
"Inter" 4 – 0 "Messina" (1st leg 1-0, total result 5-0) 27‘ [1 – 0] Nicolas Burdisso 37‘ [2 – 0] Mariano Gonzalez 61‘ [3 – 0] Nicolas Burdisso 71‘ [4 – 0] Nicolas Burdisso
"Chievo" 1 – 1 "Reggina" (1st leg 2-2, total result 3-3; "Chievo" advanced to the next stage due to more away goals scored) 10‘ [1 – 0] Simone Tiribocchi 86‘ [1 – 1] Antonio Giosa
"Palermo" 2 – 3 "Sampdoria" (1st leg 0-1, total result 2-4) 13‘ [0 – 1] Francesco Flachi 34‘ [0 – 2] Cristian Zenoni 54‘ [0 – 3] Francesco Flachi 65‘ [1 – 3] Roberto Guana 80‘ [2 – 3] Franco Brienza
73‘ Giulio Falcone ("Sampdoria") sent off
On December 6, the following round of 16 second leg matches will be played:
"Livorno" – "Arezzo" (1st leg 1-2) "Genoa" – "Empoli" (1st leg 0-1) "Parma" – "Napoli" (1st leg 0-1)