Serie A Review: Roma and Napoli make it five straight wins

Top teams Roma and Napoli have won their last five
consecutive games in Serie A, following wins over
Udinese and Palermo respectively.

Roma continued their assault on the Serie A title with a
resounding 3-1 victory over Udinese – their fifth consecutive
success in the league.

The contest was all but settled in the opening 10 minutes at
Stadio Olimpico, as Maicon played in Miralem Pjanic for the first
goal and then scored one himself soon afterwards.

Gervinho made certain of the victory just after the hour mark
when he scored his sixth goal in seven games and Roma’s 25th
in 10 games – their best scoring record in more than 50 years –
while Cyril Thereau scored late on for Udinese.

Napoli matched Roma's feat of five consecutive Serie A wins as
they beat Palermo 2-0 to go second in the table.

Gonzalo Higuain scored a superb drive from outside the box to
give the home side the lead just before half time, and Dries
Mertens made sure of the win with a goal 10 minutes from time.

AC Milan kept their first clean sheet of the season as Luca
Antonelli's second-half strike earned Sinisa Mihajlovic's men a
second consecutive Serie A victory, 1-0 over Chievo.

Juventus, meanwhile, were denied back-to-back victories for the
first time this season as Giorgio Chiellini was sent off in a 1-0
defeat at Sassuolo.

Nicola Sansone's brilliant first-half free-kick gave the home side
their first win over Juve and Massimiliano Allegri could only
watch as his struggling Scudetto champions slipped to their
fourth defeat of the season against one of his old clubs.

Atalanta came from behind to beat Lazio 2-1 courtesy of a late
winner from Alejandro Gomez.

Lucas Biglia had given Lazio the lead, but Dusan Basta's own
goal gifted Atalanta a way back into the game, before Gomez
sealed all three points in the 86th minute.

Late drama at Torino saw the home side denied their first win in
four games by an injury-time equaliser in a 3-3 draw with
Genoa.

Diego Laxalt, who had opened the scoring for Genoa after 26
minutes, scored again in the 94th to spare the blushes of team-
mate Panagiotis Tachtsidis, who looked like he had handed
Torino a win when he put through his own net five minutes
earlier.

Elsewhere, Fiorentina cruised to a 2-0 win at Verona, and an
injury-time winner from Paolo Sammarco earned Frosinone a
2-1 win over Carpi.