Serie A Round 8 Review

Roma continued their perfect start to the season on Friday against Napoli. With top spot at stake, Roma put Napoli to the sword by ending their unbeaten start to the league. With Miralem Pjanic scoring both goals, first from a brilliant free kick shortly after half time before scoring from the penalty spot which extends their unbeaten start to the season to 8 games. The only sour taste to the win for Roma being that Francesc Totti and Gervinho went out injured.

Juventus could not capitalize on Napoli’s slip up and go second by reducing the point between them and Roma to 2 points when they were defeated by a Fiorentina comeback with Giuseppe Rossi scoring a hat trick as Fiorentina came back from a 2-0 half time deficit to win 4-2 condemning them to their first defeat G.Rossi heads the goal chart this week with 8 goals.

AC Milan defeated Udinese with a Valter Birsa’s first half strike enough to go 8^th on the table. This match saw Kaka make his first home appearance for the Milanese club after signing this summer.

Genoa defeated Chievo Verona 2-1 with a brace from Alberto Gilardino either side of Simeone Bentivoglio’s goal. H. Verona saw off a fight back from Parma to win 3-2 with Jorginho scoring 2 penalties in the lasr 30mins. Sassuolo earned their first win of the season with a 2-1 scoreline against Bologna who are yet to win this season also. The result sees Bologna drop to the base of the league table with Sassuolo leap frogging to 18^th.

Internazionale had to play 85mins of their game against Torino with 10 men after goal keeper Handanovic was shown a straight red card with his replacement, Juan Pablo Carrizo saving the resulting penalty kick from Alessio Cerci. Inter still showed a brave display with only a 90^th minute Nicola Bellomo denying the new owners their first win after a Ridrigo Palacio brace had put them ahead. The match ending 3-3.

Other results see Livorno defeated at home 1-2 by Sampdoria after Nicolo Pozzi struck a 96^th minute penalty to get a win for the visitors. Atlanta 2-1 Lazio and Cagliar defeated Catana 2-1.