Comeback kings Napoli stun Juve as Milan beat Parma

Napoli fought back from a two-goal deficit for the second time in three days to shock Juventus 3-2 in Turin yesterday and prevent Ciro Ferrara's team from closing the gap on leaders Inter.

Marco Borriello scored a brace as improving Milan moved up to fourth with a 2-0 defeat of newly-promoted Parma, who dropped to sixth.

Having scored two injury-time goals to earn a 2-2 draw at home to Milan on Wednesday, Napoli produced another dramatic and ultimately even more successful comeback.

Marek Hamsik scored a brace while substitute Jesus Datolo scored one and created another as Napoli moved up to fifth while second-placed Juve remain four points behind Inter.

Ferrara could not hide his disappointment. "This defeat is like a punch in the face which hurts, it hurts a lot," he said.

"Already in the first half we took a lot of risks. After we went in front we didn't play with the right intensity against a team like Napoli who never give up."

It means Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri is unbeaten in four matches since taking over from former Italy boss Roberto Donadoni.

"Right now I already want to start thinking about our next game against Catania, throw water on the fire, but we'll still enjoy this victory, we did very well," he said.

"I've found a good group who have quickly understood my ideas. It's not just about character, the lads are also understanding certain moves."

Juve had taken the lead out of the blue as Zdenek Grygera cut in from the right onto his left foot and sent a delightful inswinging cross for veteran French forward David Trezeguet, who headed home as centre-back Hugo Campagnaro was guilty of ball-watching.

Juve went 2-0 up on 54 minutes after more poor defending from Napoli. Matteo Contini inexplicably headed a Trezeguet cross down to Sebastian Giovinco, unmarked on the edge of the six yard box, who gratefully accepted the gift.

Napoli did not let their heads drop, though, and were quickly back in the game as Hamsik rifled home at the back post from Datolo's cross on 59 minutes.

And Datolo equalised five minutes later as Denis won another header at a corner with Buffon palming the ball away and Datolo sweeping home the rebound.

The winner came from a lightning counter-attack with Ezequiel Lavezzi running at the heart of Juve's back-pedalling defence and feeding the overlapping Datolo out on the left. After Tiago failed to clear his cross, Hamsik followed up to fire high into the top corner from 12 yards.

Juve substitute Amauri was then harshly sent off in injury time for a challenge on Napoli goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis.

In Milan, Borriello converted a pass from Ronaldinho after 12 minutes, just moments after Blerim Dzemaili rattled the bar for Parma.

Milan goalkeeper Dida had to make a great save to deny Valeri Bojinov while Alexandre Pato had the best Milan chance but sent a header from Massimo Oddo's cross well wide when it looked easier to score.

Late on Thiago Silva could have sealed the win for Milan, bursting out of defence he fed Borriello on the left and then met the striker's pinpoint cross but hit the bar with his header.

But in injury time Borriello acrobatically converted a Ronaldinho cross to settle the affair.