Serie A Match Summaries - Week 3
Played on Sunday:
Bari 0 - Atalanta 2
Atalanta: Fausto Rossini 52', Nicola Ventola 56'
Red Card: Yskel Osmanovski (Bari) 90'
Halftime: 0-0
Attendance: 11,154
Newly-promoted Atalanta won their second consecutive away match thanks to a header by Fausto Rossini in the 52nd minute and a strike by Nicola Ventola four minutes later. Atalanta goalkeeper Davide Pignato saved two second half penalties from Bari's Swedish midfielder Daniel Andersson.
Brescia 1 - Fiorentina 1
Brescia: Dario Hubner 49'
Fiorentina: Leandro 67'
Halftime: 0-0
Attendance: 13,000
A perfect through ball by Brescia defender Aimo Diana enabled forward Dario Hubner to open the scoring for the home
side before Brazilian striker Leandro equalised in the 67th
minute to give Fiorentina a point.
Napoli 1 - Bologna 5
Napoli: Francesco Moriero 61'
Bologna: Pierre Wome 4', Francesco Baldini 24' (own goal), Giuseppe Signori 50', 75', Julio Cruz 90'
Halftime: 0-2
Attendance: 50,000
Napoli's crushing defeat leaves them bottom of Serie A without a point. Cameroon international Pierre Wome opened the scoring before Napoli defender Francesco Baldini put through his own net. Giuseppe Signori struck twice for Bologna either side
of a Francesco Moriero consolation goal for Napoli. Argentine
striker Julio Cruz closed out the scoring with a header in
injury time.
Reggina 0 - Lecce 1
Lecce: Cristiano Lucarelli 35' (penalty)
Halftime: 0-1
Attendance: 23,000
A Cristiano Lucarelli penalty in the 35th minute gave Lecce their first win of the season. The home side hit the post through Andrea Zanchetta.
AS Roma 3 - Vicenza 1
AS Roma: Francesco Totti 39', Vincenzo Montella
79', Gabriel Batistuta 85'
Vicenza: Mohammed Kallon 83'
Halftime: 1-0
Attendance: 59,000
Roma went top with their third straight win against
newly-promoted Vicenza. Francesco Totti, Vincenzo Montella and
Gabriel Batistuta scored a goal each to ensure Vicenza remain
pointless. Roma have scored more goals than any other side and
boast two of the league top scorers.
Verona 2 - Lazio 0
Verona: Giuseppe Favalli 54' (own goal), Adrian Mutu 79'
Halftime: 0-0
Attendance: 20,000
Verona stretched their unbeaten home run to 18 matches with a convincing victory over the champions. An own goal from Lazio defender Giuseppe Favalli and a strike on the break from
Romanian forward Adrian Mutu sealed the win. Lazio's Sinisa
Mihajlovic missed a penalty in injury time.
Perugia - Parma
Perugia: Cristian Bucchi 6', Marco Materazzi 12',
Giovanni Tedesco 20'
Parma: Johan Micoud 79'
Halftime: 3-0
Attendance: 8,000
Parma were 3-0 down after just 20 minutes and their late strike from Frenchman Johan Micoud came as scant consolation for a poor performance. Young striker Cristian Bucchi put the home
side in front with a close range header before Marco Materazzi
and Giovanni Tedesco scored with volleys from inside the box.
Played Saturday:
AC Milan 2 - Juventus 2
AC Milan: Massimo Ambrosini 59', Andriy
Shevchenko 61'
Juventus: David Trezeguet 67', Antonio Conte 90'
Halftime: 0-0
Attendance: 81,954
Substitute Antonio Conte scored an injury time equaliser as Juve came back from 2-0 down. Massimo Ambrosini and Andriy Shevcehnko put Milan in the driving seat before David Trezeguet started the Juventus fightback. [Full match report]
Udinese 3 - Inter Milan 0
Udinese: Stefano Fiore 28' (penalty), Roberto Muzzi 63', Vincenzo Iaquinta 90' (penalty)
Halftime: 1-0
Attendance: 28,000
Inter's second defeat of the season and their first under new coach Marco Tardelli. Italy midfielder Stefano Fiore opened the scoring from the penalty spot, Roberto Muzzi scored his
third of the season and Vicenzo Iaquinta scored from a second
penalty in injury time.
Serie A Leading Scorers After Week 3
| goals | player (penalty if applicable, team) |
| 3 | Batistuta ( Roma) , Muzzi ( Udinese) , Shevchenko ( Milan) , Totti ( 1, Roma) |
| 2 | Amoroso ( 1, Parma) , Iaquinta ( 1, Udinese) , Inzaghi ( Lazio) , Kovacevic ( Juventus) , Leandro ( Fiorentina) , Marazzina ( Reggina) , Materazzi ( 1, Perugia) , Mihajlovic ( 1, Lazio) , Rossini ( Atalanta) , Signori ( Bologna) |
| 1 | Ambrosini ( Milan) , Amoroso ( Fiorentina) , Andersson ( 1, Bari) , Bia ( Bologna) , Bierhoff ( Milan) , Bisoli ( Brescia) , Blanc ( Inter) , Bucchi ( Perugia) , Conte ( Juventus) , Crespo ( Lazio) , Cruz ( Bologna) , Del Piero ( Juventus) , Di Biagio ( Inter) , Diana ( Brescia) , Doni ( Atalanta) , Fiore ( 1, Udinese) , Gargo ( Udinese) , Gilardino ( Verona) , Gonnella ( Verona) , Hubner ( Brescia) , Kallon ( Vicenza) , Lucarelli ( 1, Lecce) , Micoud ( Parma) , Montella ( Roma) , Moriero ( Napoli) , Mutu ( Verona) , Nuno Gomes ( Fiorentina) , Piacentini ( Bologna) , Pierini ( Fiorentina) , Possanzini ( Reggina) , Recoba ( Inter) , Sesa ( Napoli) , Sosa ( Udinese) , Stellone ( Napoli) , Tedesco ( Perugia) , Tommasi ( Roma) , Toni ( Vicenza) , Trezeguet ( Juventus) , Ventola ( Atalanta) , Vugrinec ( Lecce) , Wome ( Bologna) , Zamorano ( Inter) , Zenoni ( Atalanta) , Zidane ( 1, Juventus) |
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