ROME — Juventus will end 2013 five points clear at the top of Serie A after a 4-1 victory at Atalanta stretched its winning league run to nine games Sunday. AS Roma remains its closest pursuers as it closed its year with a 4-0 crushing of bottom club Catania with two goals coming from defender Mehdi Benatia. Carlos Tevez's 11th league goal of the season after six minutes and goals from Paul Pogba, Fernando Llorente and Arturo Vidal tightened Antonio Conte's side's grip on top spot with 46 points from 17 games. Roma, still unbeaten, has 41 points after it dispatched the Sicilians with goals also coming from Mattia Destro, his third in as many games, and Gervinho. Giuseppe Rossi's 14th league goal of the season helped Fiorentina scrape a nervy 1-0 win at lowly Sassuolo and move up to 33 points in fourth place, three points behind Napoli. Hellas Verona hammered struggling Lazio 4-1 through a Luca Toni brace and further goals from Romulo and Juan Iturbe. It moved into fifth place on 29 points, one ahead of Inter Milan, which was playing the Milan derby late Sunday. Sampdoria continued its unbeaten run under new manager Sinisa Mihajlovic with a 1-1 draw, while Torino moved three points behind Inter with a 4-1 hammering of Chievo. A long-range strike from Alessandro Diamanti helped struggling Bologna beat Genoa 1-0 and move out of the relegation zone, relieving some of the pressure on manager Stefano Pioli. Moenchengladbach 3rd Borussia Moenchengladbach drew 2-2 with Wolfsburg Sunday to move past Borussia Dortmund into third place in the Bundesliga. Moenchengladbach dropped its first points at home this season but still moved into third, one point ahead of Dortmund, which lost 2-1 to Hertha Berlin Saturday. — Agencies
