Perfect Napoli surge back to top of Serie A

AFP, Milan :
Victor Osimhen scored twice as Napoli crushed Sampdoria, 4-0, on Thursday to remain perfect in Serie A and return to the top of the table.
In the other early game Ciro Immobile converted an added-time penalty to give Lazio a 1-1 draw at Torino.
In the late game, Tammy Abraham scored his first home Serie A goal to give Jose Mourinho’s Roma a 1-0 victory over Udinese.
In Genoa, visiting Napoli rode their luck in the first 35 minutes.
After 11 minutes home goalkeeper Emil Audero was fooled when Osimhen mishit a close range volley and had already fallen back across the goal line by the time the softly-struck ball floated into his grasp. Sampdoria responded by besieging the Napoli goal, but David Ospina foiled a series of incisive attacks with a string of acrobatic saves.
Napoli took control after 39 minutes when Fabian Ruiz passed the ball into the corner of Audero’s goal from 20 metres.
Osimhen added a second after 50 minutes, running onto Hirving Lozano’s low cross from the right and drilling the ball home from the edge of the six-yard box.
Last season, his first with Napoli, the Nigerian missed more than two months after injuring a shoulder on international duty and then catching Covid-19 while recuperating.
Piotr Zielinski added a carbon copy goal nine minutes later as he met a low Lozano pullback with a crisp shot.