Inter struggles in goalless home tie
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March 9, 2010, Tuesday
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SERIE A leader Inter Milan failed to capitalize on the draw between closest rivals AC Milan and AS Roma when it was held 0-0 by Genoa at the San Siro on Sunday.
Inter has 59 points from 27 games after its fourth draw in five league games and maintains the four-point lead it started the weekend with over Milan, which failed to turn dominance into goals in another goalless draw in Rome on Saturday.
Roma is three points further back in third.
Jose Mourinho, serving the second game of his three-match touchline ban for his controversial handcuffs gesture against Sampdoria two weeks ago, fielded three strikers in his starting XI.
Nevertheless his team was sterile in attack in a listless first half, when Genoa's Giandomenico Mesto and Giuseppe Sculli and Inter's Dejan Stankovic all had crisp but central shots saved.
The champion made three changes in a bid to shake things up after the break with the struggling Samuel Eto'o among those entering from the bench.
The Cameroon striker had a shot from outside the box well saved by Marco Amelia and Maicon came close with a diagonal strike as Inter finally put the visitors under pressure in the closing stages.
"We had a lot of players who traveled and played 90 minutes with their national teams this week," Inter's technical director Marco Branca said. "You cannot always be at the top in terms of concentration and desire.
"It's a point and it's one game less to the end of the season. Today's match wasn't brilliant. That can happen during the course of the championship."
Mourinho is refusing to talk to the media before or after league matches during his ban.
Palermo regained fourth place earlier when Fabrizio Miccoli's late goal gave it a 1-0 home win over struggling Livorno.
Palermo has 46 points from 27 games, two more than Juventus.
Sampdoria are also in the chase for Champions League qualification after a 2-1 comeback win at home over Lazio that put it one point behind Juve in sixth.
Stefano Guberti's piledriver and a volley by Giampaolo Pazzini clinched it in the first half after Sergio Floccari's early opener for the Rome club. Lazio, three points above the relegation zone, had Mauro Zarate sent off for dissent in the 77th minute.
Inter has 59 points from 27 games after its fourth draw in five league games and maintains the four-point lead it started the weekend with over Milan, which failed to turn dominance into goals in another goalless draw in Rome on Saturday.
Roma is three points further back in third.
Jose Mourinho, serving the second game of his three-match touchline ban for his controversial handcuffs gesture against Sampdoria two weeks ago, fielded three strikers in his starting XI.
Nevertheless his team was sterile in attack in a listless first half, when Genoa's Giandomenico Mesto and Giuseppe Sculli and Inter's Dejan Stankovic all had crisp but central shots saved.
The champion made three changes in a bid to shake things up after the break with the struggling Samuel Eto'o among those entering from the bench.
The Cameroon striker had a shot from outside the box well saved by Marco Amelia and Maicon came close with a diagonal strike as Inter finally put the visitors under pressure in the closing stages.
"We had a lot of players who traveled and played 90 minutes with their national teams this week," Inter's technical director Marco Branca said. "You cannot always be at the top in terms of concentration and desire.
"It's a point and it's one game less to the end of the season. Today's match wasn't brilliant. That can happen during the course of the championship."
Mourinho is refusing to talk to the media before or after league matches during his ban.
Palermo regained fourth place earlier when Fabrizio Miccoli's late goal gave it a 1-0 home win over struggling Livorno.
Palermo has 46 points from 27 games, two more than Juventus.
Sampdoria are also in the chase for Champions League qualification after a 2-1 comeback win at home over Lazio that put it one point behind Juve in sixth.
Stefano Guberti's piledriver and a volley by Giampaolo Pazzini clinched it in the first half after Sergio Floccari's early opener for the Rome club. Lazio, three points above the relegation zone, had Mauro Zarate sent off for dissent in the 77th minute.
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