Fiorentina beat Venezia to leave them bottom alone

Fiorentina won 4-2 at Venezia on Friday evening, their fourth match of the season, moving up to 3 points and leaving last place. Venezia are now bottom alone, stuck on 0 points after 4 games without a win.

The bottom of the table remains crowded: Bologna, Parma and Monza are all on 1 point, with Genoa on 0 but above Venezia, making them second-bottom. These are the sides who, over the coming rounds, are fighting to stay in touch with a title race that could soon pull away from them.

The round that starts on Saturday 12 September also concerns Napoli directly, who host Bologna — one of the three teams on 1 point — at the Maradona on Sunday 13 September. At the bottom, Genoa also play Frosinone, while fourth-placed Como face Parma, who sit on 1 point — a chance to gauge just how far the top of the table already is from the bottom. The same round also brings Atalanta-Cagliari and Lecce-Monza, two more meetings between sides from the same half of the table.

For Napoli, twelfth on 3 points, the table shows they are not alone: Torino and Lecce are on the same points, both chasing the same three points in the rounds ahead. Above all, the picture elsewhere in Serie A tells one story: the mid-table pack remains extremely tight, while the bottom of the table is already starting to break away on its own.