(From L) Roma's Juan Iturbe, Miralem Pjanic, Daniele De Rossi and Adem Ljajic celebrate after Pjanic scored his side's decisive goal during a Serie A soccer match against Napoli at Rome's Olympic stadium Saturday. — AP ROME — Miralem Pjanic's goal gave AS Roma a 1-0 win over Napoli in Serie A Saturday, its first home victory for more than four months, and in-form Lazio eased to a 3-1 victory over lowly Cagliari. Second-placed Roma is now 11 points behind Juventus. Roma scored in the 25th minute when Alessandro Florenzi set up Pjanic after a string of precise passes and his low shot beat keeper Mariano Andujar. Rafa Benitez's team have now lost four straight games away from home to slip to fifth in the standings. Lucas Biglia scored one penalty and missed another as third-placed Lazio sealed its seventh successive league win to move on to 55 points, one adrift of city rivals Roma. AC Milan notched its first away win in over five months when Jeremy Menez out-ran two defenders and delivered an unstoppable shot to gave his side a 2-1 victory over Palermo. Milan is eighth on 41 points, six adrift of fifth-placed Napoli. Inter Milan was denied its first win in five games in a 1-1 draw with bottom club Parma. Cesena came back from a three-goal deficit in Verona to earn a point that left it third-bottom on 22 points, four behind Atalanta, who lost 2-1 at home to Torino, and the safety zone. Hamburger sinks Hamburger SV moved a step closer to Bundesliga relegation with a 4-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen in sports director Peter Knaebel's first game as interim coach Saturday. Knaebel, who took over from the sacked Joe Zinnbauer, restored Rene Adler in goal, but Adler was picking the ball out his net in the seventh minute, when sloppy defending allowed Gonzalo Castro an easy score. Castro set up Stefan Kiessling in the 44th, then again in the 56th, before completing the scoring on another counterattack in 63rd. Wolfsburg consolidated second place with a 3-1 home win over Stuttgart. Fourth-place Borussia Moenchengladbach won 4-1 at Hoffenheim. Werder Bremen drew 0-0 with Mainz, Hannover drew 2-2 at Eintracht Frankfurt and Freiburg beat Cologne 1-0. Lyon moves to top Lyon moved provisionally top of the French league as its strike duo of Alexandre Lacazette and Nabil Fekir scored again in a 3-1 win at Guingamp Saturday. Lyon is two points clear of defending champion Paris Saint-Germain and has a much better goal difference. Fourth-place Monaco missed the chance to keep the pressure on the top three after being held to a 1-1 home draw by Saint-Etienne on Friday. Sevilla beats Bilbao Sevilla beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0 at home on Saturday to stay in the hunt for a top-four finish in the Spanish league. Sevilla pulled to within one point of fourth-place Atletico Madrid, while Bilbao remained in eighth. Goals by Alberto Bueno and Manucho helped Rayo Vallecano rally to beat Eibar 2-1 away Friday. — Agencies
