Serie A round-up: Fiorentina dent Juventus' title charge

Fiorentina put a dent in Juventus' title charge with a 2-1 win at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.

Nikola Kalinic and Federico Chiesa fired Fiorentina in front with goals in either half and, although Gonzalo Higuain got Juve back into it, the Serie A leaders could not find an equaliser.

Kalinic opened the scoring in the 37th minute when a long ball forward fell to Federico Bernardeschi, who slipped the ball forward to the Croatian down the right channel.

From there, his low shot across goal had the beating of Gianluigi Buffon to find the bottom corner of the net.

The second came nine minutes into the second half when Milan Badelj drove a high ball into the box and Chiesa got the slightest of touches, barely redirecting the ball but doing enough to keep Buffon on his line.

However, Fiorentina had barely finished celebrating when Juventus cut into the lead in rather scrappy fashion, with a loose ball in the area falling for Higuain to stab home.

That set up a nervy finish, but Juve could not find an equaliser, with Higuain heading straight at Ciprian Tatarusanu and Paulo Dybala blazing high and wide as time ran down.

Juve's defeat leaves Roma just one point behind - albeit having played a game more - after they edged out Udinese 1-0 away from home.

Radja Nainggolan scored the only goal after 12 minutes, meeting Kevin Strootman's pass on the volley.

Six minutes later Edin Dzeko blazed well over from the penalty spot, which Udinese would have seen as justice after Marco Davide Faraoni had been harshly adjudged to have hand-balled inside the area.

Marek Hamsik moved to within two goals of Maradona's club record of 115 for Napoli as he found the net during the 3-1 win over Pescara.

Lorenzo Tonelli headed home the opener for Napoli early in the second half before Hamsik scored with a volley and Dries Mertens bagged a third.

Gianluca Caprari pulled a late goal back for the visitors.

The win keeps Napoli in third, one point ahead of Lazio, who came from behind to beat Atalanta 2-1.

Andrea Petagna headed the visitors in front, but Sergej Milinkovic-Savic levelled in first-half stoppage time before Ciro Immobile's 68th-minute penalty won it.

Alessandro Matri scored twice as Sassuolo swept aside Palermo 4-1. The Sicilians took an early lead through Robin Quaison, but Matri levelled before Antonino Ragusa put the hosts in front.

Matri's second was followed by a late goal for Matteo Politano.

Cagliari also came from behind to win 4-1 at home, comfortably beating Genoa despite a late red card for Marco Capuano.

Giovanni Simeone put Genoa in front after 28 minutes, but Marco Borriello and Joao Pedro scored in the last five minutes of the half to turn it around.

Borriello's second was then swiftly followed by Diego Farias' penalty, before Capuano got his second yellow card with 11 minutes to go.

Levan Mchedlidze missed a penalty as Empoli drew 0-0 at Sampdoria.