Irrepressible Serie A leaders Juventus stayed eight points clear after coming from behind to beat Cagliari 4-1 away, their 11th successive league win, with forward Fernando Llorente scoring twice.

Meanwhile, Alessandro Florenzi scored with a perfectly-executed overhead kick to set second-placed AS Roma on their way to a 4-0 win over Genoa.Francesco Totti, Maicon and Mehdi Benatia shared the other goals as Roma bounced back from their first defeat of the season at Juventus last week.

Third-placed Napoli also won convincingly, beating Hellas Verona 3-0 away with goals from Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne and Blerim Dzemaili.

At the halfway point in the championship, Juventus have 52 points from 19 games, Roma 44 and Napoli 42.

Results and standings from the Serie A matches

AS Roma          4 Genoa      0  
Atalanta Bergamo 2 Catania    1  
Cagliari         1 Juventus   4  
Torino           0 Fiorentina 0  
Verona           0 Napoli     3  

Saturday, January 11 Bologna 0 Lazio 0 Livorno 0 Parma 3
Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Juventus 19 17 1 1 46 12 52 2 AS Roma 19 13 5 1 39 10 44 ------------------------- 3 Napoli 19 13 3 3 41 20 42 ------------------------- 4 Fiorentina 19 11 4 4 34 20 37 5 Verona 19 10 2 7 34 30 32 ------------------------- 6 Inter Milan 18 8 7 3 37 22 31 ------------------------- 7 Torino 19 6 8 5 31 27 26 8 Parma 19 6 8 5 29 26 26 9 Lazio 19 6 6 7 23 26 24 10 Genoa 19 6 5 8 19 24 23 11 AC Milan 18 5 7 6 28 26 22 12 Atalanta Bergamo 19 6 3 10 20 29 21 13 Cagliari 19 4 9 6 19 28 21 14 Udinese 18 6 2 10 18 25 20 15 Sampdoria 18 4 6 8 19 27 18 16 Chievo Verona 18 4 4 10 13 23 16 17 Bologna 19 3 7 9 17 33 16 ------------------------- 18 Sassuolo 18 3 5 10 17 38 14 19 Livorno 19 3 4 12 16 33 13 20 Catania 19 3 4 12 13 34 13

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