Napoli suffered their first defeat of the season on Sunday when they lost 1-0 at lowly Atalanta while Serie A leaders Juventus surged on with a 3-0 win at Empoli, helped by a Gonzalo Higuain brace.
Giovanni Simeone, son of Atletico Madrid coach and former Argentina captain Diego, scored for the second game running to give Genoa a 1-0 win at Bologna in a game of three red cards.
AC Milan, trailing 3-1 to Sassuolo with half an hour left, hit back to win 4-3 at the San Siro, helped by a stunning goal from 18-year-old substitute Manuel Locatelli.
Juve's win took the defending champions on to 18 points from seven games, four clear of Napoli with Milan, Lazio and Chievo a further point behind.
Napoli had been in better form than Juventus recently but never recovered after Andrea Petagna struck in the ninth minute.
The visitors, strangely ineffective in attack, could find no way back as they went down to their first defeat in their ninth competitive match of the season.
Juventus took more than an hour to break down their stubborn opponents, then scored three times in six minutes to claim their sixth win in seven league games.
Dybala made the breakthrough in the 65th minute and his fellow Argentine Higuain added two more, the second after an awful mistake by Empoli defender Marco Zambelli, to take his league tally to six.
Bologna captain Daniele Gastaldello was sent off two minutes before halftime, Genoa's Santiago Gentiletti was dismissed for a second bookable offence in the 85th minute and Bologna finished with nine men when Blerim Dzemaili was ordered off for a clumsy foul.
Francesco Acerbi and Lorenzo Pellegrini scored early in the second half to put Sassuolo 3-1 up at Milan before Carlos Bacca began the fightback with a penalty in the 69th minute.
Locatelli equalised four minutes later, collecting a clearance and hammering the ball into the roof of the net from the edge of the penalty area, before Gabriel Paletta headed Milan's winner with 13 minutes left.
There was a dramatic finish at Sampdoria where Bruno Fernandes volleyed home five minutes into stoppage time to give the hosts a 1-1 draw with Palermo. Basement club Crotone remained the only team without a win following a 2-1 defeat at Cagliari.RESULTS:AC Milan 4 Bonaventura 9, Bacca 69 (pen), Locatelli 73, Paletta 77 Sassuolo 3 Politano 10, Acerbi 54, Pellegrini 56Torino 2 Falque 15, Benassi 60 Fiorentina 1 Babacar 84Bologna 0 Genoa 1 Simeone 77Cagliari 2 Di Gennaro 38, Padoin 56 Crotone 1 Stoian 90+1Atalanta 1 Petagna 9 Napoli 0Sampdoria 1 Fernandes 90+5 Palermo 1 Nestorovski 60Empoli 0 Juventus 3 Dybala 65, Higuain 67,70SERIE A STANDING:Standings P W D L F A Pts
1 Juventus 7 6 0 1 15 4 18
2 Napoli 7 4 2 1 14 6 14
3 Lazio 7 4 1 2 13 7 13
4 Chievo Verona 7 4 1 2 9 6 13
5 AC Milan 7 4 1 2 12 10 13
6 Genoa 6 3 2 1 8 5 11
7 Inter Milan 6 3 2 1 8 6 11
8 Torino 7 3 2 2 13 8 11
9 AS Roma 6 3 1 2 14 8 10
10 Cagliari 7 3 1 3 11 13 10
Thursday, June 04, 2026
