Juventus Crush Napoli in Serie A Handing Major Title Race Setback

Juventus inflicted a severe setback on Napolis Serie A title aspirations on Sunday by securing a 3-0 victory in Turin that positioned the defending champions nine points adrift of frontrunners Inter Milan.

Goals from Jonathan David Kenan Yildiz and Filip Kostic sealed the win in Turin for Juve who appear reinvigorated under manager Luciano Spalletti reclaiming fifth place with this emphatic triumph against their longstanding adversaries.

With 42 points Juve match fourth placed Roma and could ascend to the Champions League qualification berths if the Roman side falls to AC Milan in the evenings concluding match.

Napoli hold a slender one point advantage over both Juve and Roma while glancing nervously at Como sitting two points further back in sixth after their impressive six goal rout of Torino on Saturday.

Roma can surpass Napoli for third position provided they avoid defeat against Milan who aim to narrow the six point deficit to city rivals Inter.

Napoli now shift focus to Wednesdays encounter with Chelsea a fixture that will determine if Antonio Contes squad retains Champions League contention.

Conte faces challenges from multiple injuries yet the evenings sole bright spot for Napoli was Romelu Lukakus return featuring briefly as a late substitute in his seasonal debut.

Ex Napoli player Giacomo Raspadori marked his complete debut for Atalanta with a goal as the side from Bergamo demolished Parma 4-0 rebounding from a tough midweek loss to Athletic Bilbao.

The remaining strikes came from Gianluca Scamacca Marten de Roon and Nikola Krstovic in an easy win for Raffaele Palladinos outfit who prepare to host formidably placed Como next weekend.

Bologna trail Como by 10 points with the latter occupying the Conference League position following their squandered two goal advantage leading to a 3-2 defeat at Genoa who extended their buffer from the drop zone to six points via a remarkable recovery.

Under Daniele De Rossi Genoa were two goals down soon after the interval courtesy of Lewis Fergusons effort and an unfortunate own goal by Sebastian Otouo but the games momentum shifted dramatically due to Bologna keeper Lukasz Skorupskis absurd sending off.

Skorupski rashly rushed from his penalty area attempting to boot the ball away only to miss it entirely and collide clumsily with Vitinha forcing his team to play short handed for more than 30 minutes.

Genoa capitalised with three superb finishes beginning with Ruslan Malinovskiys powerful free kick in the 62nd minute and culminating in added time via Junior Messias exquisite long range curl.