Roma defeated Udinese 3-1 at the Stadio Olimpico in Serie A on Wednesday evening to regain their position at the top of Serie A.
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The hosts took just five minutes to break the deadlock as Maicon played the ball across the area to Miralem Pjanic, who side-footed home from 10 yards.
Gervinho sealed the win in the second half before Cyril Thereau netted a consolation for Udinese.
Roma were looking to move back top after Inter’s 1-0 win at Bologna on Tuesday and they got off to the flawless start, taking the lead inside four minutes.
Just six minutes later Maicon went on another raid down the right and after gliding through a few abject defending the Brazilian fired past Orestis Karnezis to double the Giallorossi’s lead.
Napoli claimed their fifth win in a row after fine goals from Gonzalo Higuaín and Dries Mertens sank Palermo.
Juventus had secured only its third league win of the season at the weekend, and was hoping the 2-0 victory over Atalanta would be a turning point in its season.
Juve, who were without several key players, saw their three-game unbeaten streak wrecked by a first-half free-kick from Nicola Sansone.
AC Milan kept their first clean sheet of the season as Luca Antonelli’s second-half strike earned Sinisa Mihajlovic’s men a second consecutive Serie A victory, 1-0 over Chievo.
There was worse to come for Juventus when Chiellini, who had been booked in the fourth minute for dissent, was shown a second yellow card and sent off five minutes before halftime.
Lazio also have 18 points and were beaten by Atalanta 2-1 after an own goal and a goal by Gomez.
An injury-time goal from Diego Laxalt, his second of the match, earned Genoa a 3-3 draw at Torino, while Paolo Sammarco’s 91st-minute victor gave Frosinone a 2-1 triumph over rock-bottom Carpi.
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Defeat left the “Old Lady” in 12th place with 12 points from 10 matches.
