Napoli 2-3 Fiorentina: Luciano Spalletti’s side are stunned as they miss chance to go top of Serie A

A clinical display of finishing earned Fiorentina a shock 3-2 win at Napoli on Sunday, as Luciano Spalletti’s side suffered a blow to their Serie A title hopes.

With league leaders AC Milan not in action until later on Sunday, victory in Naples would have sent Napoli top of the standings, as they go in search of their first Scudetto since 1990.

But they were chasing the game after Nicolas Gonzalez hammered the visitors into a 29th-minute lead.

Nicolas Gonzalez gave Fiorentina the lead with a thumping strike against the run of play 

Substitute Dries Mertens put Napoli level just before the hour mark with a low accurate strike 

Dries Mertens dragged the hosts level eight minutes into the second half, but Jonathan Ikone’s fine drilled finish and a superb solo goal from Arthur Cabral stunned the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium into silence.

Napoli’s top goalscorer Victor Osimhen got one back six minutes from time, but it was too little too late, as Spalletti’s side remained in third, one point behind Milan ahead of the leaders’ trip to Torino. Fiorentina climbed to seventh.

Elsewhere on Sunday, a Ciro Immobile hat-trick earned Lazio a 4-1 win at Genoa that lifted them to fifth in the standings, while Atalanta dropped to eighth following a 2-1 loss at Sassuolo.

Jonathan Ikone (second from right) scored his first goal for Fiorentina to put them ahead again 

Arthur Cabral (centre) added a third goal for the visitors with a curling effort inside the box