No Champions League for Juve
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May 3, 2010, Monday
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JUVENTUS will not feature in next season's Champions League after a 1-1 Serie A draw at Catania yesterday ensured the seventh-placed side cannot finish fourth.
Sampdoria stayed two points clear in the fourth and final Champions League qualifying spot thanks to a 2-0 home win over relegated Livorno, with fifth-placed Palermo the only team that can now catch it with two games left.
Palermo won 2-1 at Siena to confirm the home side's relegation after it was effectively condemned last weekend because of its poor goal difference.
On Saturday, AS Roma clambered back to the top of Serie A, at least for a day, after Francesco Totti added to his collection of classic goals with a marvellous lob in the 2-1 win at Parma.
Inter Milan can re-establish its two-point lead with victory at Roma's city rival Lazio but Claudio Ranieri's side made sure the pressure will be fully on the champion with just two games left after this weekend.
Valeri Bojinov fired just wide for the mid-table hosts on five minutes before Roma, workmanlike on Labor Day, went straight up the other end and scored.
Daniele De Rossi pinged a pass forward and captain Totti timed his run to perfection, chested the ball down and lobbed goalkeeper Antonio Mirante from 18 meters.
The striker, who also hit the post, later sent in a delightful cross which Rodrigo Taddei nodded in for the second goal on 75 minutes.
Davide Lanzafame's superb header set up a nervous finish during which Parma's Luis Jimenez was sent off.
Third-placed AC Milan, whose coach Leonardo has hinted he will soon leave, beat mid-table Fiorentina 1-0 thanks to a 77th-minute penalty from Ronaldinho.
Sampdoria stayed two points clear in the fourth and final Champions League qualifying spot thanks to a 2-0 home win over relegated Livorno, with fifth-placed Palermo the only team that can now catch it with two games left.
Palermo won 2-1 at Siena to confirm the home side's relegation after it was effectively condemned last weekend because of its poor goal difference.
On Saturday, AS Roma clambered back to the top of Serie A, at least for a day, after Francesco Totti added to his collection of classic goals with a marvellous lob in the 2-1 win at Parma.
Inter Milan can re-establish its two-point lead with victory at Roma's city rival Lazio but Claudio Ranieri's side made sure the pressure will be fully on the champion with just two games left after this weekend.
Valeri Bojinov fired just wide for the mid-table hosts on five minutes before Roma, workmanlike on Labor Day, went straight up the other end and scored.
Daniele De Rossi pinged a pass forward and captain Totti timed his run to perfection, chested the ball down and lobbed goalkeeper Antonio Mirante from 18 meters.
The striker, who also hit the post, later sent in a delightful cross which Rodrigo Taddei nodded in for the second goal on 75 minutes.
Davide Lanzafame's superb header set up a nervous finish during which Parma's Luis Jimenez was sent off.
Third-placed AC Milan, whose coach Leonardo has hinted he will soon leave, beat mid-table Fiorentina 1-0 thanks to a 77th-minute penalty from Ronaldinho.
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