Serie A round-up: Juventus suffer second straight defeat
Sunday 30 August 2015 22:50, UK
Juventus had two men sent off as their dismal start to defending their Serie A title continued with defeat at Roma on Sunday.
The champions, who lost their opening match at home to Udinese last week, went down 2-1 at the Stadio Olimpico and had Rubinho and Patrice Evra sent off in the final quarter.
Miralem Pjanic opened the scoring for Roma with an impressive free-kick just past the hour mark and, before their opponents saw back-up goalkeeper Rubinho dismissed from the bench for dissent.
Former Manchester United left-back Evra was dismissed later to leave the Bianconeri with 10 men on the pitch, before Edin Dzeko headed home with 11 minutes remaining to double Roma's advantage.
Paulo Dybala pulled a goal back in the 88th minute and the visitors launched a belated battle for an unlikely point.
However, it did not come and Juve, who won the league by 17 points last season, find themselves without a point from their first two games of this campaign.
Elsewhere, Napoli threw away a two-goal lead at home to Sampdoria.
A pair of first-half goals from Gonzalo Higuain had Napoli in charge but Eder netted twice in as many minutes just before the hour – the first a penalty – to earn the visitors a point.
Stevan Jovetic took his goal tally to three in two games for Inter Milan, who won 2-1 at Carpi.
Jovetic opened the scoring in the 31st minute and, after Antonio Di Gaudio had levelled for the Serie A newcomers nine minutes from time, won it with an 89th-minute penalty.
Lazio were well beaten at Chievo, as Riccardo Meggiorini, Alberto Paloschi and Valter Birsa all found the net in the first half before Paloschi's second of the game midway through the second half sealed a 4-0 win for the Yellow-Blues.
Three goals in nine second half minutes from Emiliano Moretti, Fabio Quagliarella and Daniele Baselli enabled Torino to come from behind and sink Fiorentina, who had led through Marcos Alonso's 10th minute goal, 3-1.
Palermo had Aljaz Struna sent off at Udinese but held on to win 1-0 courtesy of Luca Rigoni's eighth minute goal, while Leonardo Pavoletti and Serge Gakpe were on target in the second half as Genoa beat Verona 2-0.
Atalanta also won 2-0, against newly-promoted Frosinone. Mauricio Pinilla missed an early penalty but the hosts recovered to win with a goal in each half from Guglielmo Stendardo and Alejandro Daro Gomez.
