Serie A round-up: Red-hot Fiorentina go top
Monday 5 October 2015 08:45, UK
Red-hot Fiorentina replaced Inter Milan as Serie A leaders by cruising to a 3-0 home victory over Atalanta on Sunday night.
A fifth straight win for Paulo Sousa's free-scoring Viola was authored by a sixth-minute penalty from Josip Ilicic, Borja Valero's close-range finish on 34 minutes, and a coup de grace from Joan Verdu with only seconds remaining at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
But while Fiorentina were settling into their new role as top dogs, AC Milan were busy capitulating 4-0 at home to Napoli.
Sinisa Mihajlovic's Rossoneri were roundly trounced at San Siro as Allan (13) and Lorenzo Insigne (48 and 68) ran riot.
Rodrigo Ely's 77th-minute own goal added insult to injury and left the 2011 Scudetto winners floundering in the bottom half of the table.
Previous leaders Inter dropped points for the second week running, this time in a 1-1 draw at Sampdoria.
Luis Muriel fired Samp ahead with a 51st-minute opener, with Inter levelling 14 minutes from time when former Samp striker Mauro Icardi set up Ivan Perisic to score.
Lazio are third following their 2-0 home victory over local rivals Frosinone. Substitute Balde Keita Diao and Filip Djordjevic left it until the last 10 minutes to grab the goals.
The Eternal City's other team, Roma, were 4-2 winners at Palermo, although they almost surrendered a three-goal lead in Sicily.
Miralem Pjanic (2), Alessandro Florenzi (13) and Gervinho (27) put the Giallorossi into a more-than-healthy position before half-time, but Alberto Gilardino (58) and Giancarlo Gonzalez hit back to set up a nervous finale. Gervinho's second goal arrived on the stroke of full-time and confirmed Roma's win.
Reigning champions Juventus are climbing the table but needed to come from behind to beat Bologna 3-1 in Turin.
Anthony Mounier gave the promoted club the lead inside five minutes and it took Alvaro Morata half an hour to respond. After the break Paulo Dybala (52) and summer signing Sami Khedira (63) fired the Bianconeri to their third league win of the season.
Elsewhere, struggling Empoli, who lost Piotr Zielinski to a late red card, recovered from back-to-back defeats by beating Sassuolo 1-0 thanks to a last-gasp Massimo Maccarone goal at the Stadio Carlo Castellani.
Mid-table sides Udinese and Genoa played out a 1-1 draw in the north east with Diego Perotti scoring a 76th-minute penalty in response to Antonio Di Natale breaking the deadlock two minutes after the interval.
