Fiorentina stay top

Fiorentina retained their grip on top spot in Serie A on Sunday with a 2-0 victory at Sampdoria while Roma beat derby rivals Lazio by the same scoreline to maintain their title challenge.

Elsewhere, Napoli stayed in the hunt after Gonzalo Higuain scored his 200th career goal, his 64th for the Azzurri, in a 1-0 home win over Udinese.

Champions Juventus, meanwhile, moved up to seventh place after goals from Mario Mandzukic, Patrice Evra and Paulo Dybala secured a second successive league win for the first time this season in a 3-1 victory at Empoli, where Massimo Maccarone hit a 19th minute opener.

Meanwhile, Inter Milan had temporarily gone top after Geoffrey Kondogbia struck his maiden Serie A goal to steer Roberto Mancini's men to a 1-0 victory away to Torino.

Fiorentina though were deserved winners at the Luigi Ferraris stadium where they went ahead after just 10 minutes when Josip Ilicic, scorer of both goals in Thursday's 2-0 Europa League victory at Lech Poznan, converted a penalty following a handball by Ervin Zukanovic.