.Mathieu Flamini scores to give AC Milan 1-0 win over Bologna and chance to seal Serie A title
ROME — AC Milan moved within one point of winning the Serie A title with a 1-0 victory over Bologna on Sunday.
French midfielder Mathieu Flamini scored in the eighth minute, taking a pass from Robinho and dribbling past two defenders before finding the target from his own rebound.
Milan can now clinch its 18th Italian league championship with either a win or a draw at Roma next weekend.
Milan is eight points clear of five-time defending champion Inter Milan and nine points ahead of Napoli.
On Saturday, Inter beat Cesena 2-1 and Napoli downed Genoa 1-0.
Regardless of how its rivals fare, Milan needs only one point in its remaining three matches to clinch the title, since it holds the tiebreakers over both Inter and Napoli.
After the final whistle, Milan's players saluted the sold-out crowd of 75,121 at the San Siro in a celebratory manner.
"We're going to try to secure the mathematics in Rome," said Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri. "At this point we have a decent lead and we ought to win it."
In another of Sunday's matches, Udinese's Champions League chances were hurt with a 5-2 loss at Fiorentina.
Nine-man Roma, meanwhile, kept its Champions League hopes alive with a last-minute 3-2 win over Bari, which was mathematically relegated last week.
Fourth-place Lazio, which hosts Juventus on Monday, is one point in front of Udinese and Roma in the race for the final Champions League berth.
Aleandro Rosi scored the winner for Roma five minutes into added time, redirecting a cross from John Arne Riise with his chest.
Roma wasted a chance to take the lead after being awarded a penalty kick in the 79th, with Bari goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet pushing Francesco Totti's spot kick onto the post.
Totti had already scored twice for his 205th and 206th goals to move past Roberto Baggio to be fifth on Serie A's all-time list.
Totti tied Baggio with a precise free kick around a wall in the 30th, levelling the game at 1-1, then added a penalty in the 57th to draw Roma level again and move past Baggio.
Roma played most of the second half with 10 men after Daniele De Rossi was sent off for an elbow to the face of Bari's Simone Bentivoglio in the 48th.
Bentivoglio had put Roma in front with a penalty in the 25th, and Norwegian forward Erik Huseklepp scored for Bari in the 42nd.
Bari ended with 10 men when Kamil Glik was sent off for protesting in the 78th. The hosts nearly won when Abdel Ghezzal hit the crossbar in the 90th.
Second later, Roma's Simone Perrotta was sent off, leaving Roma with nine men.
Also Sunday, it was: Catania 2, Cagliari 0; Chievo Verona 1, Lecce 0; Parma 3, Palermo 1; and Sampdoria 3, Brescia 3.
In Milan, Flamini nearly doubled the lead in the 45th but Bologna goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano blocked his shot. Milan forward Robinho then had a great chance in the 61st but missed wide.
Bologna threatened with headers from Henry Gimenez in the 76th and Miguel Britos in the 80th, then was reduced to 10 men when Francesco Della Rocca was shown a straight red card for a tackle on Alessandro Nesta in the 82nd.
French midfielder Mathieu Flamini scored in the eighth minute, taking a pass from Robinho and dribbling past two defenders before finding the target from his own rebound.
Milan can now clinch its 18th Italian league championship with either a win or a draw at Roma next weekend.
Milan is eight points clear of five-time defending champion Inter Milan and nine points ahead of Napoli.
On Saturday, Inter beat Cesena 2-1 and Napoli downed Genoa 1-0.
Regardless of how its rivals fare, Milan needs only one point in its remaining three matches to clinch the title, since it holds the tiebreakers over both Inter and Napoli.
After the final whistle, Milan's players saluted the sold-out crowd of 75,121 at the San Siro in a celebratory manner.
"We're going to try to secure the mathematics in Rome," said Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri. "At this point we have a decent lead and we ought to win it."
In another of Sunday's matches, Udinese's Champions League chances were hurt with a 5-2 loss at Fiorentina.
Nine-man Roma, meanwhile, kept its Champions League hopes alive with a last-minute 3-2 win over Bari, which was mathematically relegated last week.
Fourth-place Lazio, which hosts Juventus on Monday, is one point in front of Udinese and Roma in the race for the final Champions League berth.
Aleandro Rosi scored the winner for Roma five minutes into added time, redirecting a cross from John Arne Riise with his chest.
Roma wasted a chance to take the lead after being awarded a penalty kick in the 79th, with Bari goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet pushing Francesco Totti's spot kick onto the post.
Totti had already scored twice for his 205th and 206th goals to move past Roberto Baggio to be fifth on Serie A's all-time list.
Totti tied Baggio with a precise free kick around a wall in the 30th, levelling the game at 1-1, then added a penalty in the 57th to draw Roma level again and move past Baggio.
Roma played most of the second half with 10 men after Daniele De Rossi was sent off for an elbow to the face of Bari's Simone Bentivoglio in the 48th.
Bentivoglio had put Roma in front with a penalty in the 25th, and Norwegian forward Erik Huseklepp scored for Bari in the 42nd.
Bari ended with 10 men when Kamil Glik was sent off for protesting in the 78th. The hosts nearly won when Abdel Ghezzal hit the crossbar in the 90th.
Second later, Roma's Simone Perrotta was sent off, leaving Roma with nine men.
Also Sunday, it was: Catania 2, Cagliari 0; Chievo Verona 1, Lecce 0; Parma 3, Palermo 1; and Sampdoria 3, Brescia 3.
In Milan, Flamini nearly doubled the lead in the 45th but Bologna goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano blocked his shot. Milan forward Robinho then had a great chance in the 61st but missed wide.
Bologna threatened with headers from Henry Gimenez in the 76th and Miguel Britos in the 80th, then was reduced to 10 men when Francesco Della Rocca was shown a straight red card for a tackle on Alessandro Nesta in the 82nd.
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