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Inter go two points clear at top

Inter coach Roberto Mancini calmed title talk after his side went two points clear at the summit of the table with their 4-0 win against Frosinone.

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“I do not think the Napoli game will be a Scudetto crossroads”. Please note that comments are automatically checked for inappropriate language and will be removed accordingly.

Nikola Kalinic scored twice in five minutes, and also hit the bar, as Fiorentina fought back from two goals down in the Tuscan derby, while Gonzalo Higuain was on target again as SSC Napoli won 2-0 at Hellas Verona.

Napoli and Fiorentina have 28 points, one more than Roma, which was held to a 2-2 draw at Bologna on Saturday.

Lazio substitute Antonio Candreva’s second-half penalty denied new Palermo coach Davide Ballardini victory in Rome as it ended 1-1 after Edoardo Goldaniga had put the visitors ahead. The squad finally played the way they were expected to play, and got the win their fans expected of them.

“I’m happy for Biabiany, he had a serious problem, his career was threatened but he recovered, he is a great guy and a great player who can give us speed and we are very happy for him”.

The French national anthem was played before each Serie A match and supporters displayed several banners in support of their neighbors little more than a week after the deadly attacks in Paris that claimed 130 lives and left hundreds more injured.

Stevan Jovetic could have doubled Inter’s lead in the dying second of the first half after a great run through the middle, but his shot lacked the power to beat Leali.

And the result was capped late on as Jeison Murillo bundled home his first Inter goal, before Marcelo Brozovic found the net in stoppage time.

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Kalinic could have secured his second hat-trick of the season, after his triple in a 4-1 win at Inter, 13 minutes from the end but saw his first-timer from eight yards out glance off the top of the crossbar.

Hertha Berlin's Norwegian midfielder Per Skjelbred heads the ball in heavy snowfall during the German first division Bundesliga football match Hertha BSC Berlin vs TSG 1899 Hoffenheim at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin yesterday. – AFP pic