Juventus and AC Milan were held to draws to keep things tight at the Series A summit as only one
of the top seven teams managed to win.

Sixth-placed Roma's 4-0 thrashing of fifth-placed Inter Milan was the lone success for the leading teams yesterday.

Leaders Juve were held 0-0 at home to lowly Siena while second-placed Milan shared a goalless stalemate with seventh-placed Napoli.

Udinese, in third, and Lazio, fourth, both lost in a terrible day for the country's top brass, although it wasn't a great day for entertainment either with four scoreless stalemates.

At the San Siro, Milan had Zlatan Ibrahimovic sent-off for violent conduct but still came closest to winning, leaving coach Massimiliano Allegri satisfied.

"We had several chances and even with 10 men we didn't risk much, to get a point with 10 men is an important signal," he said.

"Creating a lot we continued to play without fear, being clinical in attack and defending well."

Robinho wasted a glorious chance to give Milan the lead from Ibrahimovic's flick when he was through one-on-one with goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis but he screwed his effort wide of the upright.

Midway through the second half Ibrahimovic was shown his marching orders for petulantly and needlessly slapping Salvatore Aronica, who responded, almost comically, by slapping Antonio Nocerino, behind whom the big Swede had been standing when he launched the intital assault.

Aronica, however, escaped punishment. Juve dominated throughout against Siena in Turin but it
was the visitors who should have won it when Gianluigi Buffon made amends for spilling Reginaldo's shot by somehow keeping out Alessandro Gazzi's follow-up from five yards out.