Juventus go three points clear as Roma slip

Champions Juventus restored their three-point lead at the top of Serie A on Saturday with a 2-0 win at struggling Empoli while rivals Roma slumped to a 2-0 defeat to a rapidly-improving Napoli.
     
In Saturday's late game Inter were stunned 2-0 at Parma, a result which moved the hosts off the bottom of the table and heaped further pressure on Nerazzurri coach Walter Mazzarri.
      
Andrea Pirlo and Alvaro Morata got the goals for Juve in the space of 11 second-half minutes in the first meeting between the two sides since 2008.
      
Pirlo opened the scoring with his first goal of the season, a sweet free-kick which dipped over the wall and past Davide Bassi in the Empoli goal.
      
Former Empoli player Claudio Marchisio then hit the woodwork before ex-Real Madrid star Morata made it 2-0 with a left-foot curler.
      
After a first defeat of the season away to Genoa in midweek and with Tuesday's Champions League Group A clash at home to Olympiakos on the horizon, Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri welomed the morale-boosting win.
      
"It was important for us to get back to winning ways on the road, especially after the Roma result," Allegri, who rested both Carlos Tevez and Fernando Llorente for the trip to Empoli, told Sky Sport.
      
Sebastian Giovinco partnered Morata up front and Allegri added: "Giovinco had a decent performance, he had two or three chances and showed good movement, considering it is the first time he and Morata have played together up front.
      
"We needed to rest a few of the other players and they both put in a good shift."        Earlier, a spectacular early strike from Gonzalo Higuain and a late Jose Callejon goal handed Napoli a precious 2-0 win over title...