Serie A Round-up - Saturday 16th April 2011

   

AS Roma 2 Palermo 3


Roma lost at home to Palermo to put a huge dent in their hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League.  Two in the last six minutes from Uruguayan hitman Abel Hernandez turned the game on it's head.

A 20th minute penalty from captain Francesco Totti was converted after a foul on Jeremy Menez.  A penalty also brought Palermo back into the game as Mauricio Panilla scored just before half-time.

A late goal from Mirko Vucinic was not enough to rescue the badly needed points for the Giallorossi and condemned new president Thomas Di Benedetto to his first defeat in charge in his first game.

   

AC Milan 3 Sampdoria 0

Elsewhere AC Milan took a step closer to winning the Scudetto with a dominant 3-0 victory at home to relegation strugglers Sampdoria. Goals from Clarence Seedorf, Antonio Casano & Robinho sealed the points,  I Rossoneri are now 6 points clear of 2nd place Napoli who face a tricky game at home to Udinese on Sunday.

   

Parma 2 Internazionale 0

Inter suffered a shock defeat away to 15th place Parma.  Two Juventus loanees Sebastian Giovinco and the Brazilian Amauri inflicted the damage as the Parmigiani ran out 2-0 winners.  This result leaves Inter in 3rd place and 8 points adrift of leaders AC Milan with 5 games left to play.

Donnie Kemp