Serie A Roundup — Week 37

The penul­ti­mate round of cal­cio ital­iano was action packed as only 2 matches had less than 2 goals com­bined from both teams. At this point the only drama will be what team will fin­ish 2nd and what team will be the last to be relegated.

Juven­tus snapped a 7-game win­less streak with their 3–0 road win against Siena. Juve icon Alessan­dro Del Piero scored twice to give La Vec­chia Sig­nora the 3 points and pull even with AC Milan on points. Il Rossoneri fell to AS Roma 3–2 at home in Paolo Maldini’s last home game. Mas­simo Ambrosini’s dou­ble wasn’t enough to take down Il Gial­lorossi. Roma’s iconic cap­tain Francesco Totti scored in the 85th minute to give Roma the win. Totti’s goal secured Roma’s place in next season’s Europa League.

Torino fell back into the rel­e­ga­tion zone after their 3–2 loss at home to Genoa. Future Inter Milan striker Diego Mil­ito scored twice includ­ing the game win­ner in the 89th minute to secure their place in next season’s Europa League and put Torino in a pre­car­i­ous posi­tion for relegation.

Bologna moved out of rel­e­ga­tion despite their 0–0 draw at Chievo, Marco Di Vaio failed to improve his chance to be named Capoc­an­non­iere as Serie A’s lead­ing goal scorer. Inter’s Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic scored in Inter 2–1 road loss to Cagliari to move into a tie with Di Vaio at 23 goals for the season.

Here are the results & stand­ings for Week 37:

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20nd

Lazio 1 — 0 Reg­gina
LAZ: Mauro Zárate (26′)

SUNDAY, MAY 24th

Ata­lanta 2 — 2 Palermo
ATL: Gian­vito Plas­mati (50′ & 67′)
PAL: Davide Succi (32′) & Fab­rizio Mic­coli (75′)

Lecce 1 — 1 Fiorentina
LEC: Simone Tiri­boc­chi (50′)
FIO: Mar­tin Jør­gensen (90′)

AC Milan 2 — 3 AS Roma
ACM: Mas­simo Ambrosini (75′ & 81′)
ROM: John Arne Riise (36′), Jérémy Menez (80′), Francesco Totti (85′)

Chievo Verona 0 — 0 Bologna

Torino 2 — 3 Genoa
TOR: Ivan Frances­chini (40′) & Rolando Bianchi (49′)
GEN: Diego Mil­ito (pen 32′ & 89′) & Ruben Oliv­era (48′)

Sam­p­do­ria 2 — 2 Udi­nese
SAM: Mauri­cio Isla (og 32′) & Anto­nio Cas­sano (pen 44′)
UDI: Gae­tano D’Agostino (pen 13′) & Felipe (61′)

Siena 0 — 3 Juven­tus
JUV: Alessan­dro Del Piero (18′ & 89′) & Clau­dio Marchi­sio (37′)

Cagliari 2 — 1 Inter­nazionale
CAG: Andrea Cossu (34′) & Robert Acquafresca (71′)
INT: Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic (8′)

Cata­nia 3 — 1 Napoli
CAT: T. Mori­moto (42′), Guiseppe Mas­cara (pen 88′), Vito Fal­conieri (90′)
NAP: Mar­i­ano Boglia­cino (28′)

STANDINGS

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