Pele was sent off as Serie A leaders Inter were held by Genoa, but second-placed Roma lost a thriller to Lazio and missed a glorious chance to close the gap.

Genoa 1-1 Inter

Marco Borriello's 85th minute strike earned Genoa a deserved 1-1 draw against Serie A pacesetters Internazionale, who had midfielder Pele sent off in the first half.

Inter went ahead on 11 minutes, and that man Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the architect. The Swede collected a pass and drove down the left, before teeing up David Suazo for the simplest of finishes.

It seemed all too easy for the league leaders. Roberto Mancini's men looked assured in possession, and Cambiasso was marshalling midfield expertly.

With Ibrahimovic and Suazo linking dangerously upfront one began to wonder just how many they would win by.

Genoa refused to lie down, however, and in Ivan Juric had a player of their own capable of influencing proceedings.

It was Juric who tempted Pele into a clumsy challenge five minutes before the break - earning the midfielder his second yellow card in six minutes and reducing Inter to ten men.

The Serie A frontrunners never recovered. As the game progressed Genoa came closer and closer to the equaliser their dominance deserved, forcing Julio Cesar into a string of saves.

Finally, with five minutes remaining, the breakthrough arrived, and unsurprisingly Juric was the instigator. It was his powerful shot that Cesar could but parry into the path of Borriello - who acrobatically and emphatically earned Genoa a share of the spoils.

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Lazio 3-2 Roma

Roma missed a glorious chance to close the gap in the Serie A title race, after an injury-time winner from Valon Behrami settled a pulsating Derby Delle Capitatale.

The game took flight after 23 minutes, when Behrami's clearance struck Roma's Rodrigo Taddei and flew past Marco Ballotta to give second-placed Roma the lead.

Lazio levelled shortly before half-time, when Goran Pandev reacted first to Doni's palmed clearance and fired home.

Ten minutes after the break Lazio went ahead from the penalty spot. Rolando Bianchi was tugged to the floor, and Tommaso Rocchi slotted from 12 yards - with Doni desperately close to a vital save.

Lazio's lead lasted barely five minutes before Roma drove forward and Francesco Totti's deft flick invited Simone Perrota to drive home the equaliser.

Unbelievably, there was still time for a coup de grace. With two minutes of injury time on the clock, Behrami ghosted in from the Lazio right and won the game in dramatic fashion.

Roma now lie seven points adrift of Inter, with nine matches remaining.

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Cagliari 1-0 Atalanta

Striker Robert Acquafresca converted a generous penalty in the 18th minute to give basement side Cagliari their fourth win in six games.

Atalanta struggled to react after falling behind and had defender Moris Carrozzieri sent off for a second yellow card in the 76th minute.

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Catania 0-0 Siena

A second-half shot from Siena striker Massimo Maccarone that hit the crossbar was the highlight of an uneventful match.

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Empoli 0-0 Juventus

Juventus showed little sign of being able to break the deadlock against the Tuscan strugglers, who had lost their previous four games.

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Livorno 1-1 Reggina

Reggina forward Franco Brienza scored for the visitors with a left-footed shot in the 32nd minute. Albanian striker Erjon Bogdani headed Livorno level in the second half.

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AC Milan 1-2 Sampdoria

Milan's defence watched as Christian Maggio fired the visitors in front from close range.

Midfielder Gennaro Delvecchio wriggled past Alessandro Nesta and coolly slipped the ball home at the end of a counter-attack to double Sampdoria's lead.

Alberto Paloschi headed in a cross from fellow 18-year-old Alexandre Pato to deservedly pull one back for Milan in the 71st. The visitors had defender Stefano Lucchini sent off for a second yellow in the closing stages.

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Napolo 2-0 Fiorentina

Argentine forward Ezequiel Lavezzi struck for Napoli in the 23rd minute and unleashed a shot that slipped through keeper Sebastien Frey's fingers for his second just after the half-hour mark.

Fiorentina striker Adrian Mutu hit the crossbar with a header after the break but the Florence club did little else to get back into the game.

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Parma 2-1 Palermo

Croatian forward Igor Budan's second-half brace, including a 90th-minute penalty, gave Parma victory over the Sicilians, who scored through Uruguayan Edison Cavani.

Kenyan midfielder McDonald Mariga was sent off in the 27th for a bad foul on Palermo defender Giulio Migliaccio.

Palermo's Italy defender Andrea Barzagli also went in the 70th for a second yellow.

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Torino 0-1 Udinese

Simone Pepe's 25th-minute free-kick gave Udinese the spoils.

Torino striker David Di Michele hit the post with a right-footed shot from the edge of the area in the second half.

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