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Serie A Week 29 - 19/3/08 (19.30 UK)
Napoli 2 - 0 Fiorentina
Lavezzi 23, 31 (N)
Stadio San Paolo

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Ezequiel Lavezzi's double saw Fiorentina become the latest big club to fall at the San Paolo.

The Viola were heading for Champions League football, but faced a Napoli side that had already beaten Inter and Juventus here. Massimo Gobbi was suspended, joining Alessandro Gamberini, Martin Jorgensen and Franco Semioli on the sidelines. Marcelo Zalayeta is out for the season with a knee injury, but Manuele Blasi and Daniele Mannini returned from bans.

Over the past few years both these clubs have been bankrupt and demoted to Serie C, but are right back in the thick of Serie A's top sides. Adrian Mutu had the first chance, but Fabiano Santacroce cut him off with a splendid challenge.

Sebastien Frey took the sting out of a Walter Gargano free kick, but he was beaten on 23 minutes by Ezequiel Lavezzi. Mannini took Manuel Pasqual by surprise on the right channel and rolled across for Lavezzi's sliding finish.

Fiorentina fought straight back as Mutu tested Matteo Gianello from the edge of the area and from the resulting corner Tomas Ujfalusi's flick on found the Romanian, but it was disallowed for the defender's foul.

Lavezzi doubled his tally and Napoli's lead thanks to a howler from Frey. The French goalkeeper got down late when a corner came out to Lavezzi and could only get a touch that bounced over his head.

Napoli should have been 3-0 up, but when Frey parried a Marek Hamsik missile, the same player failed to turn in the follow-up. Fiorentina also threatened, as Gianello turned Mutu's drive round the post with one strong hand.

Straight after the restart Mutu's looping header thumped the crossbar.

Napoli also went close after Roberto Sosa came on, as Per Kroldrup intercepted a Hamsik pass to the unmarked Argentine.

Fiorentina shot themselves in the foot when Ndyaie Papa Waigo's cross found Mutu and Daniele Cacia both go for the ball and clatter into each other.


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Napoli: Gianello; Santacroce, Cannavaro, Domizzi, Mannini, Blasi, Gargano, Hamsik (Pazienza 80), Savini, Lavezzi (Bogliacino 89), Calaiò (Sosa 68)

Fiorentina: Frey; Ujfalusi, Kroldrup, Dainell (Potenza 64)i, Pasqual, Kuzmanovic, Donadel, Liverani (Papa Waigo 46), Montolivo, Osvaldo (Cacia 55), Mutu

Ref: Rosetti

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