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ROME (AP) _ Two Manchester United fans who were stabbed during clashes before a Champions League match with AS Roma remained in hospital Thursday and are expected to live. Rome prefect Achille Serra said the fans were stabbed in either the groin or backside during clashes with Roma supporters. A total of 18 fans were reported injured and Serra said at least three were Italian. ``On both sides there is ...

Italian clubs' focus switches from the Champions League to Serie A this weekend and Sunday's Roman derby. AS Roma was Italy's third and final qualifiers for the second round of the Champions League and enters the game against Lazio on a six-game winning streak. However, captain Francesco Totti may miss out because of an ankle injury. Roma advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League for the first time, ...

Inter Milan and AS Roma advanced to the Italian Cup quarter-finals Wednesday. Inter beat Messina 4-0 with four headers _ two by Nicolas Burdisso _ and advanced 5-0 on aggregate. Roma beat second-division Triestina 2-0 on goals by Valerio Virga and Vincenzo Montella and advanced 4-1 on aggregate. Inter, the Serie A leader, led in the 27th minute when Burdisso converted a Luis Figo corner. Kily Gonzalez scored in the ...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Patrick Vieira scored a goal each Sunday to help Inter Milan beat Palermo 2-1 and take a four-point lead in the Serie A. Ibrahimovic put Inter ahead in the sixth minute with a powerful strike from 30 metres (yards), which Palermo goalkeeper Alberto Fontana should have saved. Vieira scored the second in the 61st from just inside the area. Inter improved to 33 points, four ahead of ...

AS Roma will be missing midfielders Amantino Mancini and David Pizarro when it visits Olympiakos on Wednesday in the Champions League. Mancini pulled a muscle in his left thigh during Roma's 1-0 loss to Reggina in a Serie A match on Sunday and is out for 10 days. Pizarro is not making the trip for family reasons. Also, defender Philippe Mexes has a calf problem and striker Vincenzo Montella was ...

Vincenzo Montella scored to help AS Roma beat Empoli 1-0 and move into first place in the Serie A on Sunday. Montella headed in Max Tonetto's cross in the 23rd minute for his 136th Serie A goal. Also, Fabio Grosso equalized in the 38th minute as Inter Milan was held to 1-1 at Cagliari, while Eugenio Corini scored in the 30th to lead Palermo over Chievo Verona 1-0. Roma and Palermo have 12 points, but Roma leads ...

Francesco Totti won't change his decision not to play for Italy again until next year. Italy coach Roberto Donadoni visited Totti at AS Roma's training centre Monday to try and persuade the playmaker to return for October's European Championship qualifiers. ``Right now Totti isn't returning to the national team,'' Roma coach Luciano Spalletti said, according to Tuesday's Gazzetta dello Sport. ``He has problems with his ankle that he's taking care ...

Rodrigo Taddei scored one goal and set up another Sunday to help AS Roma beat Siena 3-1 and move into first place in the Serie A. Taddei gave Roma the lead in the 47th minute against his former club, scoring from an angled shot from inside the area. In the 70th, he sent a cross to former Inter Milan midfielder David Pizarro, who scored from five metres. Stefano Okaka, who ...

ROME (AP) _ AS Roma set an Italian league record by winning its 11th straight game on Sunday, beating Lazio 2-0 in the Roman derby. Rodrigo Taddei and midfielder Alberto Aquilani scored in each half at the Stadio Olimpico. ``We made history,'' said Roma's injured captain, Francesco Totti. The win lifted AS Roma to fourth place in the standings, one point clear of Fiorentina. However, the fight for the league ...

ROME (AP) _ Italian national team forward Francesco Totti was released from a Rome clinic Wednesday after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury. The AS Roma captain was on crutches as he left the Villa Stuart clinic in Rome. Totti, 29, fractured his fibula and strained ligaments in his left ankle after being tackled during Sunday's Serie A match with Empoli. He is expected to recover in two to three ...