Ten-man Lecce threw a spanner in the Serie A title works as they held Juventus to a 1-1 draw last night, allowing Milan to close the gap at the top to just one point.

Juve seemed to be cruising to victory after an early goal from Claudio Marchisio while their relegation-threatened opponents were reduced to 10 men early in the second period.

But Andrea Bertolacci’s goal five minutes from time snatched a draw and allowed Milan, 2-0 winners over Atalanta, to reduce the gap.

And it was a horror mistake from Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon that gifted Lecce the equaliser, suggesting the Turin giants might just be cracking under the title pressure.

It ended Juve’s eight-match winning run and gives Milan renewed hope of retaining their crown.

At the San Siro, Milan started brightly and a pair of efforts from Kevin-Prince Boateng and one from Zlatan Ibrahimovic tested goalkeeper Andrea Consigli.

On nine minutes, Boateng found Muntari in the box, although the Ghana midfielder was perhaps offside, to poke in from close range.

It wasn’t all one-way traffic as Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati was forced into a diving save to keep out German Denis’s header.

Milan enjoyed the lion’s share of chances but they had to wait until injury time to wrap up the points through Robinho.

Inter’s Champions League hopes took a knock as they lost 3-1 at Parma and now trail Napoli and Udinese by three points.

Inter took the lead after just 13 minutes as Dejan Stankovic tried to tee up Diego Milito but his cross was too far in front of the Argentine forward, only for Wesley Sneijder to arrive at the back post to squeeze in the ball from a tight angle.

But two goals in two minutes turned the game on its head.

Sebastian Giovinco robbed Lucio and then nutmegged Walter Samuel to set up a tap-in for Jose Marques.

And moments later diminutive striker Giovinco nipped between the two centre-halves to run clear and fire in off the bar.

Jonathan Biabiany sealed the points late on with the third.

Udinese matched Napoli’s points with a 1-0 win at Cesena, although they trail the southerners on head-to-head record.

The only goal came when Danilo’s miss-hit shot bobbled up and allowed Diego Fabbrini to arrive at the back stick to prod in.

Lazio are two points off third after they were held 1-1 at home to Siena, who went in front when Andrea Rossi’s cross from the left was headed home by Mattia Destro.

But Lazio were handed a lifeline with a penalty award after Andrea Candreva flopped in the box, with Cristian Ledesma firing home.

Novara joined Cesena in Serie B as they were relegated after a 2-2 draw at Fiorentina.

Serie A

Catania 0
Bologna 1
Ramirez 79;

HT: 0-0. Att: 15,000.

Cesena 0
Udinese 1
Fabbrini 4;

HT: 0-1. Att: 16,000.

Fiorentina 2
Montolivo 48 pen; Montolivo 71;
Novara 2
Jeda 14; Rigoni 30 pen;

HT: 0-2. Att: 21,000.

Genoa 2
Palacio 12; Jankovic 76;
Cagliari 1
Ariaudo 13;

HT: 1-1. Att: 0.

Juventus 1
Marchisio 8;
Lecce 1
Bertolacci 85;

HT: 1-0. Att: 36,000.
Red card: Cuadrado (L) 54.

Lazio 1
Ledesma 62 pen;
Siena 1
Destro 26;

HT: 0-1. Att: 32,000.

Milan 2
Muntari 9; Robinho 90;
Atalanta 0

HT: 1-0. Att: 51,000.

Parma 3
Marques 53; Giovinco 55; Biabiany 83;
Inter 1
Sneijder 13;

HT: 0-1. Att: 13,000.

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Juventus	36	21	15	0	63	19	78
Milan	36	23	8	5	70	28	77
Napoli	36	15	13	8	64	43	58
Udinese	36	16	10	10	48	35	58
Lazio	36	16	8	12	51	46	56
Inter	36	16	7	13	53	50	55
Roma	36	15	7	14	55	50	52
Parma	36	13	11	12	51	53	50
Bologna	36	12	12	12	39	42	48
Catania	36	11	14	11	45	48	47
Atalanta (-6)	36	13	13	10	40	38	46
Chievo	36	11	12	13	30	41	45
Siena	36	11	11	14	44	41	44
Cagliari	36	10	12	14	37	44	42
Fiorentina	36	10	12	14	36	43	42
Palermo	36	11	9	16	48	56	42
Genoa	36	10	9	17	48	67	39
Lecce	36	8	12	16	40	54	36
Novara	36	6	11	19	31	63	29
Cesena	36	4	10	22	22	54	22