Serie A: Hat-trick of wins for Lazio

Filip Djordjevic scored his fifth goal in three games to help Lazio beat Fiorentina 2-0 away in Serie A on Sunday, its third league win in a row.

The Serbian forward gave Lazio a 35th minute lead when he smashed home from close range after Antonio Candreva rolled the ball across the area, the first goal Fiorentina has conceded at home this season.

Fiorentina, unbeaten since its 2-0 loss to AS Roma on the opening day of the season, nearly equalised early in the second half when Alberto Aquilano’s spectacular overhead kick struck the post.

Lazio did so much time-wasting the in the second half that the referee added on eight minutes of stoppage time.

But it wrapped up the game when Senad Lulic finished off Candreva’s counter-attack to score its second in the 92nd minute, leaving Lazio on 12 points from seven games and its opponent on nine.

The results : Fiorentina 0 lost to Lazio 2 (Djordjevic 35, Lulic 90+2); Atalanta 1 (Boakye 90) bt Parma 0; Cagliari 2 (Avelar 59-pen, Sau 77) drew with Sampdoria 2 (Gabbiadini 28, Obiang 38); Verona 1 (Lopez 87) lost to Milan 3 (Marques 21-og, Honda 27, 56); Palermo 2 (Dybala 33, Gonzalez 90+1) bt Cesena 1 (Rodriguez 61-pen); Torino 1 (Quagliarella 62) bt Udinese 0.