MADRID: Giuseppe Rossi scored a penalty deep into injury time as 10-man Villarreal salvaged a 1-1 draw at Sporting Gijon Sunday to stay in touch with Spanish leader Real Madrid. Carlos Marchena was tugged down inside the Sporting area for the Italy striker to step up and slot his sixth goal of the season past Juan Pablo Colinas in the 94th minute. Gonzalo Rodriguez handled inside the area to set up Sporting's opener as Diego Castro scored with a 69th-minute penalty. Gonzalo was then sent off in the 77th to further complicate the game for the visitors. Madrid beat Hercules 3-1 Saturday to stay top with 23 points, while Barcelona trails by one point after routing Sevilla 5-0. Villarreal is alone in third with 20 points. Atletico Madrid languishes nine points adrift of its Spanish capital neighbor following a 1-1 draw against Almeria. Also on Sunday, Deportivo La Coruna picked up its first win of the season in a 3-0 win over Espanyol, while Swedish pair Kennedy Bakircioglu and Markus Rosenberg led Racing Santander to a 4-1 win over Osasuna. Malaga remained winless at its La Rosaleda stadium after losing to Real Sociedad 2-1. Lazio 4 clear at top Shock leader Lazio moved four points clear at the top of Serie A after a back-to-the-wall 1-0 win at Palermo Sunday, its fourth away victory in a row. Defender Andre Dias scored against the run of play with a superb volley from a free kick after 27 minutes. Sampdoria dropped Antonio Cassano after he swore at the club's president last week, and his teammates labored to a last-gasp 1-0 victory at Cesena in his absence. AC Milan's 2-1 defeat by Juventus Saturday meant Lazio, relegation candidates last term, would stay top whatever the result in Sicily. Second-placed Inter Milan won 1-0 at Genoa Friday. Next weekend Lazio faces city rival AS Roma, which will be without captain Francesco Totti after he was sent off in Roma's 2-0 win over Lecce Saturday. Maradona's former club Napoli celebrated his 50th birthday this weekend with a 1-0 win at Brescia, where Argentine striker Ezequiel Lavezzi fittingly grabbed the second-half winner, in heavy rain, to send the Naples side up to fifth. Mutu had a decent game and a few half-chances on his return for Fiorentina at coach Sinisa Mihajlovic's former club Catania. The Romanian played in the stalemate despite being probed by police after allegedly punching a barman last week. In other games, Udinese continued its rise up the table with a 2-0 win at bottom side Bari. Fellow struggler Bologna lost 2-0 at Cagliari and Parma drew 0
