Napoli maintained their perfect start to the Serie A campaign after they rallied to a 2-1 victory over Fiorentina on Sunday, after the side from Naples tasted their first loss of the season in the Europa League.

Hirving Lozano and Amir Rrahmani came to Napoli’s rescue after Lucas Martínez Quarta had given the home side the lead. Napoli has won its first seven league matches of the season and tops the Serie A table. It is two points above AC Milan, which won 3-2 at Atalanta.

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Despite its superior form in the Italian league, Napoli has struggled in Europe. It drew at Leicester in their Europa League opener and lost 3-2 at home to Spartak Moscow on Thursday.

Napoli was looking to recover from that defeat but went behind in the 28th minute as a corner was knocked back across goal by Dušan Vlahović and Martínez Quarta acrobatically volleyed it into the back of the net.

Martínez Quarta swiftly went from hero to villain as he bundled over Victor Osimhen as the Napoli forward ran into the area.

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Fiorentina goalkeeper Bartłomiej Drągowski did brilliantly to parry Lorenzo Insigne’s penalty and then get up and push the rebound away from the onrushing Napoli captain but Lozano fired in the loose ball.

Osimhen almost gave Napoli the lead in stunning fashion on the stroke of halftime but his overhead kick flew narrowly past the left post.

Napoli did go in front five minutes into the second half when Rrahmani headed a free-kick into the bottom right corner.

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Meanwhile, in the other games, Milan got off to the best possible start at the home of one of its main rivals as it took the lead after 28 seconds.

Davide Calabria ran onto Theo Hernandez’s through ball and, although Atalanta goalkeeper Juan Musso managed to parry his first attempt, the Milan defender slotted home the rebound.

With inputs from the Associated Press