Udinese keep soaring through Di Natale's goals

Impressing Serie A side Udinese won 4-0 at Cagliari on Sunday and leapfrogged Lazio to move level with Napoli into third place.

Antonio Di Natale scored a second-half brace for a top-scorer tally of 24 goals from 29 games, leaving Edinson Cavani four goals adrift before the Uruguayan leads Napoli into a late game at Parma.

The Udine side have won nine and drawn three of their last 12 games and could be faring much better in the league had they not lost the season's first four games.

Lazio lost 2-0 against Roma, whose captain Francesco Totti scored a second-half brace in a city derby that saw little thrill save a bar-shaking shot from Roma midfielder David Pizzarro in the first half.

Totti fired a fierce free kick that on 70 minutes found the net largely thanks to a blunder from Fernando Muslera and beat again the Uruguayan with a late spot kick.

The derby turned dicey after Totti's goal with the late dismissal of Romanian defender Stefan Radu for head-butting Fabio Simplicio before Lazio also had Cristian Ledesma red-carded for his protests.

Roma are now four points behind fourth place that qualifies for the next Champions League.

A 1-1 home draw to bottom side Bari earlier Sunday slowed down the march of leaders AC Milan after a similar slip up from chasers Inter Milan.

Milan were without their dismissed star Zlatan Ibrahimovic when substitute Antonio Cassano levelled against his former team, who had taken the lead through Hungary striker Gergely Rudolf.

The dismal home draw at the rainy Giuseppe Meazza prevented Milan from profiting as Inter only drew 1-1 at lowly Brescia on Friday.

With nine games left, Inter lag five points adrift with a city derby set for early April.

"We knew it was not a won game," Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said. "We further complicated it conceding a goal in a bad first half. In the end there is bitterness and disappointment.

"This week we played two good games obtaining less than what we should have."

The seven-time European champions drew 0-0 at Tottenham Tuesday and were eliminated from the Champions League on a 1-0 aggregate score in the round of 16, where Inter next week visit Bayern Munich with a 1-0 deficit.

In other Sunday games, Genoa edged Palermo 1-0, Fiorentina won 1-0 at Chievo, Bologna also won 1-0 away to Lecce and Catania beat guests Sampdoria 1-0.

On Saturday, troubled giants Juventus drew 2-2 with 10 men away to relegation-threatened Cesena.

The draw did little to improve Juve's seventh place in the Serie A, but ended a run of three defeats suffered without scoring a single goal.