Football – Serie A: Naples continues its flawless against Fiorentina

Naples always impresses. After six consecutive victories to start their season, the Azzurri continued their good streak with another success on the lawn of a clumsy Fiorentina in order to increase their lead at the top of the championship, with three points ahead of AC Milan. , which will end the day against Atalanta Bergamo. But it was not all easy. The team of Luciano Spalletti, arrived this summer at the foot of Vesuvius, was jostled by the Viola, which opened the scoring with a nice volley from Lucas Martinez Quarta (1-0, 28th).

But the Florentine striker then offered a penalty to the leader of the Italian championship by committing a foul on Victor Osimhen, who left for the goal. Goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski pulled out all the stops in front of Lorenzo Insigne but he could not do anything on the recovery of Hirving Lozano, the fastest to make up for the failure of his captain (1-1, 38 ‘). And as soon as the restart, the Polish goalkeeper had to bow again to a header from Amir Rrahmani (50th), synonymous with the seventh victory for Napoli despite a final push from the Viola, poorly rewarded for his efforts.

Easy Rome

For its part, Roma provided the essentials against Empoli (2-0). Captain Lorenzo Pellegrini celebrated in the most beautiful way his renewal until 2026 with the Giallorossi, formalized on Saturday, by opening the scoring shortly before the break (1-0, 42nd). Henrikh Mkhitaryan doubled down on the restart, in ambush to resume a shot from Tammy Abraham returned by the bar (2-0, 48th). Roma, fourth, who is thus moving forward after their loss in the derby against Lazio (2-3) a week ago, thus takes three steps ahead of Fiorentina (5th), six points behind leader Naples.