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Inter’s form at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza has been exceptional this season, with nine wins and two draws from their 11 games ahead of Cagliari’s arrival.

Jose Mourinho’s side lived up to their fearful reputation with Goran Pandev and Walter Samuel’s first half goals effectively ending the game by half-time.

And Diego Milito bagged his 17th goal of the season just two minutes after the restart as Inter secured the three points in style.

Inter burst out of the blocks and were ahead within six minutes when Samuel Eto’o miscued his shot from Javier Zanetti’s cross and Pandev pounced to fire home.

And the home side doubled their advantage 11 minutes later with Samuel heading home a Maicon corner.

Cagliari should have pulled one back 10 minutes before the break when Alessandro Matri was wrongly judged to be offside; the linesman raising his flag when in fact the ball had come off an Inter defender.

And Julio Cesar was called into action to superbly deny an emphatic Nene volley 60 seconds later as the visitors, previously unbeaten in six, fought for a way back into the match.

But Inter withstood the Cagliari flurry and made the game safe when Eto’o and Pandev exchanged passes on the edge of the box before finding Milito, with the Argentinean international making no mistake with just Michael Agazzi to beat.

"We can definitely improve a lot more but I’m happy for the three points, said Pandev.

We are only thinking about ourselves, other results don’t bother us.

Roma stole second place from AC Milan thanks to a fortunate 1-0 win at mid-table Fiorentina, who were denied by a tight offside call when Juan Vargas netted and spurned several other chances.

The visitors snatched victory when Mirko Vucinic fired in off the bar following a corner eight minutes from time.

Roma striker Francesco Totti, considering coming out of international retirement for Italy at June’s World Cup, went off at halftime after his fitness problems reoccurred.

Milan failed to win for the fourth consecutive game in a 0-0 draw at struggling Bologna where Mancini, who signed on loan from Inter on Monday, made his debut in place of David Beckham.

The Rossoneri hit the bar twice but their creative problems remain as they continue to miss injured forward Alexandre Pato.

Beckham was dropped having played all five leagues games since arriving for a second loan spell from Los Angeles Galaxy.

A fight between fans before kickoff and a scuffle in the players’ tunnel marred Antonio Di Natale’s hat-trick in lowly Udinese’s 3-1 win over fourth-placed Napoli, who had goalscorer Christian Maggio sent off on half-time for diving.

The defeat was Napoli’s first in the league for 16 games.

Italy forward Di Natale, Serie A’s top scorer with 16 goals, netted early when he knocked in the rebound after his penalty was saved and he made it 2-1 in stoppage time with an acrobatic finish before adding a third.

Seven people, including a policeman, received minor injuries in trouble outside the ground in Udine, media reported.

Sampdoria’s 2-1 win at bottom side Siena meant the Genoa club climbed to sixth spot, above free-falling Juventus who drew 1-1 at Livorno on Saturday.

Genoa beat fellow mid-table side Chievo 1-0 and Catania boosted their hopes of survival and left Lazio third from bottom thanks to Maxi Lopez’s second-half goal in a 1-0 win in Rome.

Also at the bottom, Atalanta beat Bari 1-0 at home.

Eurosport / Reuters

The New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.

The Saints, who had trailed 10-0 after the first quarter, took the lead in the fourth through a Jeremy Shockey touchdown reception on a two-yard pass from quarterback Drew Brees, then successfully made the two point conversion.

The game was put beyond the Colts reach when their quarterback Peyton Manning’s pass was intercepted by Tracy Porter who raced 74 yards for the touchdown.

The Saints were appearing in their first Super Bowl since entering the league in 1967.

After the fireworks, national anthem and military flyover, the Saints received but were forced to punt on their first possession.

In response, the Colts had to settle for a 38-yard field goal from Matt Stover, who at 42 years old became the oldest man to play in a Super Bowl.

The Saints again had to punt but this time the Colts went all the way with an 11-play, 96-yard drive ending with a pinpoint 19-yard Peyton Manning pass into the arms of the sprinting Pierre Garcon.

Garrett Hartley kicked field goals of 46 and 44 yards to leave the Saints trailing 10-6 at half-time and came out pumped up in the third quarter by recovering an onside kick.

They got their noses in front when Pierre Thomas collected a screen pass from MVP Brees and produced a weaving run for a 19-yard touchdown.

The Colts responded in kind, however, through a four-yard run over from Joseph Addai after quarterback Manning had led a 10-play, 76-yard drive.

A 47-yard field goal from Hartley, his third of the game, brought the Saints back to within a point before they scored 15 unanswered fourth quarter points.

Reuters