Goals: Del Piero 14', Iaquinta 30'- Balotelli 10 & 53', Cruz pen 39'

Serie A leaders Inter Milan won 3-2 at Juventus in an enthralling encounter on Wednesday to triumph 5-4 on aggregate and reach the Italian Cup semi-finals.

Inter will face Lazio in the last four after the Rome side beat Fiorentina 2-1 away earlier to record a 4-2 aggregate victory. Catania set up a meeting with holders AS Roma by beating Udinese on away goals.

Inter's commitment to the competition has been questioned but they were certainly motivated against their bitter rivals, even though former Juve striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was rested.

Reserve forward Mario Balotelli opened the scoring for the visitors on 10 minutes before Alessandro Del Piero hit back with a free kick in an exhilarating first half.

Vincenzo Iaquinta put Juve in front when he nodded in after debutant Guglielmo Stendardo had hit the post with a header but Inter were level again when Julio Cruz converted a penalty after Hasan Salihamidzic had been harshly penalised for handball.

Balotelli grabbed the winner with a superb finish nine minutes into the second half. Juve pushed for an equaliser but their hopes ended when Mauro Camoranesi was sent off on 85 minutes for a crude hack on former team mate Patrick Vieira.

Juventus: Belardi - Birindelli (Camoranesi, 67'), Legrottaglie, Stendardo, Molinaro - Salihamidzic, Nocerino, C Zanetti, Nedved (Palladino, 74') - Iaquinta (Trezeguet, 67'), Del Piero.

Inter: Toldo - Maicon (Solari, 86'), Cordoba, Rivas, Maxwell - Jimenez (J Zanetti, 70'), Maniche (Vieira, 54'), Pelé, Stankovic - Cruz, Balotelli.

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