Roma and Palermo share top place

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MILAN, Italy -- AS Roma and Palermo maintained their winning starts to the Serie A season on Sunday with victories that leave them as joint leaders.

Chilean midfielder David Pizarro scored his first goal for Roma in their 3-1 victory at Siena with Brazilian Rodrigo Taddei and Stefano Okaka Chuka also on target.

David Di Michele scored both Palermo's goals in their 2-1 win away to Lazio to complete a good week for the Sicilian club.

They won at West Ham United in the UEFA Cup on Thursday.

Lazio's second straight loss left them on minus 11 points after the penalty imposed by a sports tribunal which investigated Italy's match-fixing scandal.

Taddei gave Roma the lead in the 47th minute against his former club, scoring from an angled shot from inside the area.

In the 70th, he put over a cross for former Inter Milan midfielder Pizarro to score from five meters.

Okaka, who came on for captain Francesco Totti in the 75th, scored Roma's third goal in injury time.

Fiorentina, who began the campaign on minus 19, remain bottom of the table after suffering another defeat with their 1-0 loss to Tuscan rivals Livorno.

Cristiano Lucarelli's 58th-minute header gave Livorno victory.

AC Milan trimmed another three points off their penalty of eight by winning 2-0 at Parma. Dutchman Clarence Seedorf fired in a free kick and and Brazilian Kaka scored from the penalty spot.

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