Roma midfielder Alessandro Florenzi was booked for running into the stands to hug his 82-year-old grandmother after scoring in their 2-0 win over Cagliari in Serie A yesterday.

Napoli’s troubles continued when suffered their second consecutive 1-0 defeat in the league, this time at Udinese, and substitute Jasmin Kurtic scored Fioren-tina’s first league goal of the season to give them a 1-0 win at Atalanta.

Roma, following up a 5-1 drubbing of CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Wednesday, needed only a quarter of an hour to polish off the Sardinians and maintain their 100 per cent record in all competitions this season.

Florenzi set up Roma’s opening goal in the 10th minute when his low cross was turned in at the far post by Mattia Destro.

The hosts extended their lead three minutes later after Gervinho mis-hit his shot but Florenzi was on hand to fire in from the follow-up.

The 23-year-old celebrated by running to hug his grandmother, who Italian media said was making her first visit to the Stadio Olimpico, and was booked when he returned to the pitch, one of only two yellow cards in the match.

“I’ll happily pay any fine for Florenzi,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia told reporters. “The hug was the sort of image that we want to see.”

Roma, who have a game at Parma on Wednesday, were happy to conserve energy after that and strolled through the rest of the game.

Roma and Juventus, who won 1-0 at Milan on Saturday, are the only teams with nine points from their opening three games. Zdenek Zeman’s Cagliari have only one point.

Danilo’s second-half goal gave Udinese a 1-0 win over Napoli who produced another disjointed performance after coach Rafael Benitez again rotated his squad. They have only three points from three games.

Fiorentina also looked pedestrian, with Germany striker Mario Gomez giving another off-colour performance, but they were saved by one moment of inspiration from Kurtic.

The Slovenian midfielder collected a pass from Matias Fernandez, turned and scored with a low left-foot shot from 25 metres which went in off the foot of the post in the 58th minute, two minutes after he had come on.

A late goal from Chile forward Mauricio Pinilla and outstanding performance from goalkeeper Mattia Perin gave Genoa a 1-0 win at home to 10-man Lazio, their first win of the season.

His goal came shortly after Netherlands defender Stefan de Vrij had been sent off for a second bookable offence for Lazio.

“How much is Perin worth? He is priceless,” said Genoa coach Gian Piero Gasperini.

Antonio Cassano scored twice to help Parma come from behind and beat Chievo 3-2.

Sassuolo drew 0-0 at home to Sampdoria while Inter could not go beyond a 1-1 draw against Palermo.

Results

Serie A

Atalanta 0
Fiorentina 1
Kurtic 58;

HT: 0-0. Att: 15,000.

Chievo 2
Izco 4; Paloschi 82;
Parma 3
Cassano 65, 77; Coda 76;

HT: 1-0. Att: 12,000.

Genoa 1
Pinilla 87;
Lazio 0

HT: 0-0. Att: 16,000.
Red card: De Vrij (L) 85.

Roma 2
Destro 10; Florenzi 13;
Cagliari 0

HT: 2-0. Att: 40,977.

Sassuolo 0
Sampdoria 0

Att: 9,000.

Palermo 1
Vazquez 3;
Inter 1
Kovacic 42;

HT: 1-1. Att: 18,292.

Torino 0
Verona 1
Ionita 65;

HT: 0-0. Att: 13,405.
Missed penalty: El Kaddouri (T) 88.

Udinese 1
Danilo 71;
Napoli 0

HT: 0-0. Att: 5,500.

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Roma	3	3	0	0	5	0	9
Juventus	3	3	0	0	4	0	9
Verona	3	2	1	0	3	1	7
Milan	3	2	0	1	8	6	6
Udinese	3	2	0	1	3	2	6
Inter	3	1	2	0	8	1	5
Sampdoria	3	1	2	0	3	1	5
Atalanta	3	1	1	1	2	2	4
Genoa	3	1	1	1	2	2	4
Fiorentina	3	1	1	1	1	2	4
Cesena	3	1	1	1	3	5	4
Lazio	3	1	0	2	4	4	3
Parma	3	1	0	2	7	8	3
Chievo	3	1	0	2	3	4	3
Napoli	3	1	0	2	2	3	3
Palermo	3	0	2	1	3	4	2
Sassuolo	3	0	2	1	1	8	2
Cagliari	3	0	1	2	2	5	1
Empoli	3	0	1	2	2	5	1
Torino	3	0	1	2	0	3	1

Top scorers
3 goals: Icardi (Inter), Menez (Milan), Cassano (Parma).
2 goals: Osvaldo (Inter), Di Natale (Udinese), Honda (Milan), Pinilla (Genoa), Tevez (Juventus), Kovacic (Inter), Vazquez (Palermo).

Next fixtures

Tuesday: 20.45 Empoli vs Milan.
Wednesday: 20.45 Cagliari vs Torino; Fiorentina vs Sassuolo; Verona vs Genoa; Inter vs Atalanta; Juventus vs Cesena; Parma vs Roma; Napoli vs Palermo; Sampdoria vs Chievo.
Thursday: 20.45 Lazio vs Udinese.

Acerbi returns

• Sassuolo midfielder Francesco Acerbi made an emotional comeback to Serie A yesterday, just over nine months after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. The 26-year-old played the full 90 minutes in the goalless draw against Sampdoria, his first match since Dec. 8. “It’s been wonderful and emotional, even though I felt cramp after about 70 minutes, although I didn’t ask to come off,” he said. “I’d have been happier if we had won.”