Inter Leads with 67 Points

Inter Milan maintained its six-point lead in the Italian league by beating Palermo 2-1.Patrick Vieira scored his first league goal of the season in the fifth minute, heading in a soft pass from Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Marco

Materazzi then scored an own-goal in the 25th to tie the score, but Luis Antonio Jimenez added another for Inter in the 36th.

Inter leads the league with 67 points, followed by AS Roma with 61. Roma beat AC Milan 2-1 Saturday.Third-place Juventus beat Napoli 1-0 with Vincenzo Iaquinta scoring the lone goal in the 88th minute.

The hosts had more chances, but had been unable to score until Iaquinta took a pass from Alessandro Del Piero and beat

Napoli goalkeeper Matteo Gianello with a low shot from inside the area.

Fourth-place Fiorentina beat Genoa 3-1 with a goal from Adrian Mutu, who returned after missing three weeks with an injury.

Parma, playing under coach Hector Cuper for the first time, was held to a 1-1 tie by Livorno. Cuper led Valencia to the

Champions League final in 2000 and ‘01 before moving to Inter Milan.