AS Roma bounced back from last week's dire 3-0 defeat at Siena to beat Reggina 2-0 on Saturday and keep their faint title hopes alive.
Goals from Cristian Panucci and Brazilian winger Alessandro Mancini secured a comfortable yet unspectacular victory that reduced Roma's deficit to leaders Inter Milan to five points.
Mancini had the first clear chance of the match, forcing Andrea Campagnolo into a fine one-handed save.
But Reggina did not hold out for long as Roma went ahead on 21 minutes.
From a quickly-taken corner, captain Francesco Totti crossed deep to the back post where veteran defender Panucci arrived late to score from a tight angle, heading the ball back across goal and in off the far post.
Reggina had the better of things after the break without ever really looking like finding the net, before Roma's French winger Ludovic Giuly created the winner.
Giuly twisted, turned and then shot to the far post, but Campagnolo parried his effort only for Mancini to slot the loose ball into the empty yet.
Earlier, Bosnian striker Zlatan Muslimovic struck in the last minute to deny Champions League chasing Fiorentina a crucial victory as Atalanta secured a 2-2 draw.
Young attacking star Giampaolo Pazzini opened the scoring for the Viola on 29 minutes as he turned home a right-wing cross from Riccardo Montolivo, but Muslimovic levelled matters just a minute later.
Franco Semioli scored his first league goal of the season to give the visitors the lead again on the hour mark when he headed home a cross from Swiss midfielder Zdravko Kuzmanovic.
But in the last minute, Muslimovic slid home a dangerous low cross from Argentine Fernando Tissone to keep alive Atalanta's UEFA Cup hopes.
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