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MILAN, Italy -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned from his suspension in style as his first-half hat trick helped AC Milan to a 4-0 win at Palermo on Saturday. The Serie A leader moved three points clear after Juventus drew 1-1 with Chievo Verona in what could prove to be a decisive day in the title race. Ibrahimovic fired Milan in front in the 22nd minute and benefited from another Robinho assist just after half an hour before completing his treble with a stunning long-range shot in the 35th. The Sweden striker would have added to his first-half tally but for a wonder save from Palermo goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano. Thiago Silva completed the rout shortly before the hour mark. It was Ibrahimovics first game back following a three-match ban for slapping Napoli defender Salvatore Aronica. He took his tally to 18 for the season, drawing level with Udinese forward Antonio Di Natale at the top of the goalscoring charts. "Milan is strong even without Ibra, because a great squad has so many strong players and even without me the squad showed it knew how to play well and win," Ibrahimovic said after his second Serie A hat trick and first for Milan. "I will make everyone sign the ball and then Ill give it to my kids to play with. "This was a very important victory. Its not easy to play here at Palermo but we did well. What happened happened but the squad did well even without me, winning two games and drawing the other, which apart from anything else we deserved to win." There was even better news for Massimiliano Allegris side later as Boukary Drame levelled for Chievo in Turin after Paolo De Ceglie put Juventus ahead. Milan was three points ahead, although unbeaten Juventus has a game in hand. "Im disappointed because todays match was one we had to and could have won, theres a lot of regret," Juventus coach Antonio Conte said. "We always play flat out so occasionally theres a slight drop and its a psychological one. "Today it seemed as if we wanted to take on the world and we wasted too much energy and left ourselves exposed to so many Chievo counterattacks, and I didnt like that. But there are teams which are better equipped than we are and we have to be proud of what we are doing. What the boys are doing is miraculous." Milan heads into the second leg of its Champions League last-16 match with Arsenal with even more confidence. Leading 4-0 from the first leg, it will expect to complete the job in London on Tuesday. It is Palermos second hefty defeat in a row, and its third loss in its past four games -- although it is the first time the Sicilian side has lost at home this year. Milan went in front when Sulley Muntari slipped but fortunately managed to intercept a Palermo pass and get the ball to Robinho, who touched in for Ibrahimovic to curl into the top left corner. On a counterattack, Robinho again found Ibrahimovic, who controlled well before cutting inside and firing into the left corner. Ibrahimovic grabbed his third four minutes later when he whipped the ball into the bottom right corner from 25 yards. The former Inter Milan star could have had another in the 39th but Viviano somehow managed to deflect Ibrahimovics six-yard effort to safety. Milan came close to extending its lead seven minutes after the break but Viviano did well to turn Thiago Silvas free kick around his right post. The Palermo goalkeeper pulled off another good save moments later to deny Stephan El Shaarawy. However, Viviano could do nothing when El Shaarawys cross was headed in by Thiago Silva Palermo almost got one back minutes later when Edgar Barretos effort crashed off the left post. Juventus knew it had to win to keep pace with Milan and it took the lead in the 18th minute. Giorgio Chiellinis header crashed back off the right post, bounced out of Chievo goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentinos arms and De Ceglie headed his side in front. Chievo looked dangerous on the counterattack and almost levelled two minutes from halftime when Paolo Sammarco fired Alberto Paloschis cross narrowly over the bar. Sorrentino pulled off a stunning stop on the hour to deflect with his leg Simone Padoins close-range effort. Chievo snatched a deserved equalizer 13 minutes from time when Drame drilled in a fizzing long-range effort. Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci was on the line but could not prevent it going in for Drames first Serie A goal. 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Midfielder Michael Bradley, one of the teams new designated players, will make his debut, while striker Gilberto could see his first action for TFC in the contest.Twenty-four-year-old Jacques Villeneuve drives out of the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the world at his feet. It is the Monday after the day before, a day that forever changed the life of the young Canadian. That day Villeneuve, fittingly driving the number 27 that become so synonymous with his father Gilles at Ferrari, comes from two laps down to win the 1995 Indianapolis 500. He had spent the day smiling and posing for hundreds of photographs that are beamed all across the world. By the end of the year he has a multi-year contract in his pocket at the best team in Formula One, Williams-Renault. Within two years Villeneuve is World Champion and is a star everywhere he goes. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis 500 continues on without him. As Villeneuve departed for Europe, IndyCar split in two and has never fully recovered from the bitter divorce. The Indy 500s list of drivers in the late 90s lacked real star power and it lost a grip on being the biggest race in the world. Slowly the giant teams like Penske, Ganassi and Andretti returned and with them came world class, elite drivers. For some ten years now, the Indy 500 is back to what it once was, testing some of the greatest single-seater drivers the world has to offer. It is the second Sunday in May and Jacques Villeneuve, now 43, drives back inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dressed in a yellow race suit with Dollar General written all over it he looks nothing like what many would expect a former F1 World Champion to look. He doesnt have the amount of hair he once had but he is back at Indy as a driver, the first time in 19 years. He stops to sign autographs and pose for photographs as he makes that famous walk, paved by greatness, that the likes of A.J. Foyt, Jim Clark, Rick Mears and other stars have taken, alongside Gasoline Alley to the pit lane. The diehard fans stare and flock towards him but he is far from the main attraction at the Speedway. Villeneuve, not a regular on the IndyCar circuit, does remarkably well with attention but here he is just another driver, one that doesnt travel in packs with fellow drivers. He is a man from past glories back to recreate new memories of his own. "I hardly know anyone to be honest. I know (Takuma) Sato, but I never raced against him and I have never raced against anyone who is a regular in this series. That is weird because I dont know what to expect, I dont know how they race. Which one is clean? Dirty? Crazy? So its definitely a bit strange, yes." The answer is typical Jacques. He talks of not knowing anyone but immediately he means as drivers, not as men. Our conversation immediately turns to scenarios that can take place on the track. Villeneuve doesnt talk in clichés and for someone who has done as much media as he has in his life, he remains a refreshingly deep-thinker who can take you on the same journey as his mind. We talk about this upcoming Sunday and the Indy 500, and the point when he will be travelling in excess of 230 miles per hour with cars all around him. His eyes squint as he dictates word-for-word his precise thoughts as he gets set to compete in what he describes as the biggest race in the world. "The complexity of this race now is running in traffic. The cars have two hundred horsepower less than 19 years ago and much more grip and to be able to stay super close to the cars, while everyone is running flat out, the key is to stay close to someone else, (ready for) when he has to lift, back out a little bit because of the traffic in front of him, then you steal his momentum. "Thats really tough, ass you get in the turbulent air behind someone, your whole car is shaking and thats when the car starts sliding and you can lose the front end or the rear end a little bit and, at that point, do you have the guts to keep your foot down or not and is your car working in that situation?" This is a world he has little control in, a frightening thought for even the greatest of race drivers.dddddddddddd Villeneuve, who will start, fittingly, in the 27th spot for Sundays race, continues: "I will be surrounded by guys who respect the danger and others who think its a video game and, at those speeds, its risky and thats what I still dont know, who to trust and who not to trust out there. With more grip and less horsepower, the cars are very forgiving. I have got sideways a few times already this month and if I did that 19 years ago I would have been in the wall. "I think they give a false sense of security for some of the drivers and thats why you see kids coming in and, within three laps, they are flat out because I dont think they respect how dangerous it is. Once you get caught out, then you start respecting it and at Indianapolis there are two kinds of drivers, the ones who have hit the wall and the ones who havent hit the wall." It is clear Villeneuve is almost as concerned about those who havent hit the wall than hitting the wall himself. "This is not a track where you want to make a mistake. The speeds we go is exciting, it is unparalleled. It is a long race and my approach (in the past) was to mind your own business and it will come to you. You have to know when to take a risk and when not to. Normally in the first half, the idiots will crash themselves out so if you can stay clean to 100 laps then that can be useful!" There arent too many drivers in IndyCar who will refer to some of the colleagues as idiots but this is what comes with the honest, direct Villeneuve who survived the world of Formula One without turning into a robot, something very few have done in recent years. He admits he still watches Formula One but not the same way he once did: "I dont like or understand the reason behind the new rules but we have had some amazing races this year. Why? Only because the teammates have been allowed to fight. When you had Prost and Senna (at McLaren in the late 80s) they would lap the field but everyone was happy so we have a bit of that now with Lewis (Hamilton) and Nico (Rosberg). "The rules themselves, though, are not F1. The sport should be out of this world, not reality. You should look at it and say thats crazy how do these guys manage to drive these kinds of cars at those speeds. In the original turbo engine era they would do qualifying and then throw the engine in the garbage. Thats F1. It should be so extreme that when you are at home, and you are not a racer, you know thats another world. Now you are at home and think I could do that. There is nothing special about it anymore." The man who won 11 Grand Prix races has never been one to focus too much on the past but it is clear he knows those eras were far superior to modern day F1. He smiles when asked about the 1997 season but moves off from it as quickly as it comes up. "It was fun but I dont dwell on the past, I never have and thats why I want my kids to see me drive. I dont want to be for my kids, the guy that used to race that they can see in books." Those books tell a remarkable tale of one of the finest Canadians to ever compete in any sport. On Sunday at the Greatest Spectacle in Racing another chapter is to be written. cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '
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