Napoli heap more misery on Juventus

Napoli revived their hopes of claming Serie A's final Champions League slot and dented Juventus's when they heaped more misery on the Turin side with a 3-1 win yesterday. Fabio Quagliarella, Marek Hamsik and Ezequiel Lavezzi struck in the second half...

Napoli revived their hopes of claming Serie A's final Champions League slot and dented Juventus's when they heaped more misery on the Turin side with a 3-1 win yesterday.

Fabio Quagliarella, Marek Hamsik and Ezequiel Lavezzi struck in the second half to cancel out Giorgio Chiellini's early strike and hand Juventus their third straight defeat.

Victory lifted Napoli level with Juve on 45 points, three behind Palermo in the fourth spot.

Centre back Chiellini headed Juve in front on seven minutes after captain Alessandro Del Piero had nodded on a free kick from the right.

Hamsik met a Quagliarella cross to equalise in the 50th minute and make amends for having smacked a penalty on to the bar.

The Slovak midfielder returned the favour by floating the ball for Quagliarella to score in the 72nd.

Lavezzi poked in on 88 minutes to make sure the visitors went down again after a 1-0 loss to Sampdoria.

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