Lazio climbed to the top of Serie A with a 2-1 home win over Parma as Roma twice came from behind to secure a 3-3 draw with Napoli in a pulsating clash in Naples. Lazio have 22 points from their eight matches this season and are three points clear of champions Inter Milan, who have played a game fewer and host Fiorentina on Sunday. Lazio opened the scoring in the 50th minute as Kenneth Taylor struck his first of the season, before Parma’s Diego Carlos put the ball into his own net trying to cut out a cross.
The visitors scored a late consolation through Simone Lontani. Third-placed Roma trailed 2-0 and then 3-2 late on, so will be pleased with a point in Naples as they preserved their 15-game unbeaten league run that dates back to April. Frank Anguissa’s spectacular overhead kick gave Napoli the lead and Scott McTominay doubled the advantage.
At that stage they were cruising, but two goals in four minutes from Matías Soulé and Leonardo Balerdi drew Roma level. When McTominay added his second in the closing stages the momentum swung back in Napoli’s favour, but Balerdi headed an equaliser for Roma with a minute remaining. We are fine [with the result], with high morale.
Balerdi knows football, has extraordinary energy and has been a great signing for us.” Como backed up their Champions League victory over Manchester United as Anastasios Douvikas scored twice in 11 minutes for a 2-0 win against Sassuolo. They climbed to fourth in the table. In Germany, Maximilian Beier scored in the 80th minute to send Borussia Dortmund top of the Bundesliga table after a hard-fought 1-0 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt.
In a game lacking clear chances, Jobe Bellingham came off the bench and threaded a clever pass for his fellow substitute Beier to score less than a minute later. The narrow victory was Dortmund’s first in the league since mid-September and took Niko Kovac’s side three points clear atop the Bundesliga table. Bayern Munich can return to the top of the table with a win at Freiburg on Sunday but will be without their coach, Vincent Kompany, who is being treated in hospital for a mystery virus after collapsing at training on Friday.
Niclas Füllkrug scored for the sixth straight Bundesliga match as Werder Bremen won 3-2 at Mainz. Füllkrug, who returned to Bremen on loan from West Ham in the summer, converted two penalties inside the opening 25 minutes. Ludovit Reis grabbed Bremen’s other goal, while Anthony Caci and Lee Jae-sung scored for the hosts.
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