Palermo beats Lecce 2-0

 　　ROME, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Palermo beat Lecce 2-0 at home on Thursday to move three points off the top of Serie A.

　　Palermo went ahead in the 27th minute when Abel Hernandez surged into the box on the counter-attack down the right flank. And the penalty was inevitable¹ when Nenad Tomovic mistimed his tackle.

　　It was coolly converted by Mauricio Pinilla, who sent Massimiliano Benassi the wrong way.

　　Lecce went very close to an equalizer, as Alexandros Tzorvas meekly² parried a Christian³ Obodo strike from distance and Corvia fired the follow-up over under pressure.

　　Palermo doubled their lead with a counter-attack. The ball was won back in midfield and immediately threaded through for Hernandez, who exchanged passes with Eran Zahavi to toe-poke it through a sea of legs in at the near post.

　　Fabrizio Miccoli had the opportunity to make it 3-0 when he ran clear from a smart through ball, but flashed his angled drive across the face of goal.

　　Juan Cuadrado's snapshot was also across the six-yard box to skim the far post after good work from Andrea Bertolacci.

　　Benassi needed a desperate double save when Miccoli's chipped pass found a Hernandez header at the back post and the follow-up from Edgar Barreto.

1 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

2 meekly   

adv.温顺地，逆来顺受地

参考例句：

• He stood aside meekly when the new policy was proposed. 当有人提出新政策时，他唯唯诺诺地站 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He meekly accepted the rebuke. 他顺从地接受了批评。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。