Cavani hat-trick moves Napoli level with the Serie A leaders Juventus

Antartika Raya. - Napoli joined Juventus at the top of Italy's Serie A after Edinson Cavani hat-trick in a 3-0 win blowing Lazio at the Stadio San Paolo.

Host fourth victory 'in five league games took them to 13 points, with only a missed penalty from side to deny Cavani Walter Mazzarri of taking the top spot directly in the Italian championship.

Uruguay became the league's top scorer with five goals after racing for a hat-trick in just over an hour but he pioneered the 75th minute penalty over the bar.

Napoli, who remain unbeaten, now share identical records and two conceded eleven goals with defending champions Juventus, who drew 0-0 at Fiorentina on Tuesday.

Lazio - Germany striker Miroslav Klose who won praise for match officials after admitting that he had used his hand when bundling the ball home early - suffered their second loss in as many games after starting their campaign with three consecutive wins.

Meanwhile, AC Milan relieved some of the pressure on embattled coach Massimiliano Allegri at Cagliari beat ten men 2-0 at the San Siro to move tenth in the table.

Allegri saw from the sidelines as he served a touchline ban came after he made a heated protest to officials during Sunday's defeat at Udinese but he would love to see the striker Stephan El Shaarawy double take - and further boosted by the return of Brazilian Robinho after injury for a month.

Both Allegri and Milan go into the game knowing that a win was essential after defeat in their opening game at the San Siro stadium - against Sampdoria and Atalanta - has led to the worst club started the season in over 80 years.

The win also means that one of Milan and Inter, who share the San Siro, eventually won the match - at the tenth asked - after the installation of a new synthetic field most-during the summer.

After suffering a shock defeat at home to Siena on Sunday, Inter responded by moving up to fourth after a 2-0 win at Chievo, thanks to goals from Alvaro Pereira and Antonio Cassano.

In the capital of Italy, Sampdoria protected their unbeaten record when they recovered from going a goal behind Francesco Totti first half to draw 1-1 at Roma and took third place, three points behind the leader.

Elsewhere, Catania beat Atalanta 2-1, Geno's 1-1 draw with Parma, Torino and Udinese played a goalless draw, while Pescara defeated ten-man Palermo 1-0 thanks to late attack from Wladimir Weiss.

There is only one game in Spain where Atletico Madrid went second in La Liga, and six points clear of rivals Real, after a 4-2 win at Real Betis.

Colombian striker Radamel Falcao scored twice to overtake Lionel Messi at the top of the list of La Liga's top scorer, with thirteen points, Atletico are now just two fewer than Barcelona.

In Germany, Szabolcs Huszti and Didier Ya Konan continued Hanover among the league leaders, scoring or assisting on all four goals as the team beat Nuremberg 4-1 at home.

Bayern Munich top of the Bundesliga after winning the opening five games, but the third moved Hanover clamp Konan and one of the Hungarian Huszti take their points tally to ten for the season.

Hamburg moved out of the bottom three after a 2-2 draw at Borussia Monchengladbach, with former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rafael van der Vaart opened the scoring for the visitors.