Napoli suffered their first defeat of the season today 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. Juve's win took the defending champions on to 18 points from seven games, four clear of Napoli with Lazio and Chievo a further point behind after their wins on Saturday. Napoli had been in better form than Juventus recently and began confidently in Bergamo but were stunned when 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...
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