Juventus and Milan follow the trail of Inter

Juventus of Turin won with the struggling Lecce (1-2) and AC Milan did the same against Catania (1-0) and remain on the lookout of Inter Milan which has six point lead, while Fiorentina and the Naples also fail and remain in positions of Europe. Below business as usual after the dispute of the fifteenth day of the Serie A.

The 'Juve' defeated in southern Italy to Lecce, complicating things for Claudio Ranieri, at minute 83 when the premises Tied goal from Giovinco appeared to be the definitive one. It was not the case, the machines' bianconera 'was entrusted to the wisdom of top scorer Amauri and managed to do justice on the scoreboard.

And is that the 'Juve' was clearly superior to Lecce, although they jumped into the field of play without Alessandro Del Piero, injured. Thus, the 'Vecchia Signora' with the ninth victory liguera still on the lookout of Inter Milan which does not yield any points at the head of the classification.

For his part, Lecce remains at the bottom in the sixteenth place, but is not surpassed by any of the teams that are behind it, who does not manage to score.

Another victory was the set who got the AC Milan Ronaldinho against Catania. Despite the fact that the Milanese were the rulers of the match, only able to beat once Albano Bizarri. He had to be the famed Kaká who at minute 65 put the gap on the scoreboard.

The Catania, who just shot on goal on two occasions did not match for the 'rossoneri' who follow the trail of the first two classified with 30 points. With this defeat the Sicilians are turning away from the posts Europeans to four points.

Fiorentina beats the pace of Gilardino

In the Comunale, the Fiorentina is resarció of their elimination in the Champions League with a victory against the Roma (1-4) and maintains positions in Europe in the fifth position. Gilardino was the action of signing the key to win the 'Fiore', author of two of the four goals scored by adding 11 in his personal account at the head of the goalscoring table.

Despite a huge result, the 'violets' were in front of a leathery as was the rival Torino, who throughout the meeting never came down the arms. The Turin, remain doomed at the team down a day more.

The Naples and also failed to beat Siena (2-0), thanks to goals in the second part of Maggio and Dennis reflected on the scoreboard dominance of possession offered on the pitch. With what the Neapolitans put pressure on the first three listed three points of difference.

In the struggle to emerge from the bottom Reggina and Bologna Tied (2-2) and left to escape the opportunity to catch air and overcome the Torino and Lecce, who finished the day without scoring. The two sets secured a point thanks to goals from old glories like to Reggina were Corradi and Di Vaio for the visitors.

Thus, the Calabrian still immersed in the eighteenth position with eleven points, one more than Bologna, anchored in the penultimate place. In the other two matches of the day, between Cagliari and Palermo, the local took the three points (1-0) in a match that was not deserved to win, and Atalanta defeated Udinese (3-0), three points it serves to Bergamo to overcome in the qualifying table to his rival today in the field and maintains the distance of three points with the European area.

Amauri celebrates scored the winning goal KEANO (Photo: AFP)

Result Serie A: 7 December 2008

AC Milan 1 - 0 Catania

Atalanta 3 - 0 Udinese

Cagliari 1 - 0 Palermo

Lecce 1 - 2 Juventus

Napoli 2 - 0 Siena

Reggina 2 - 2 Bologna

Torino 1 - 4 Fiorentina

Sampdoria 0 - 1 Genoa