Lazio held 1-1 at Napoli; Inter one point back and Roma two at the international break

Lazio go into the international break top of Serie A on 29 points after a 1-1 draw at Napoli on Sunday, but their lead is down to a single point. Inter beat Como 2-0 at San Siro later the same day to move to 28, and Roma, 3-0 winners over Sassuolo on Saturday, are third on 27.

The gap in numbers

After 11 rounds, Lazio (nine wins, two draws) and Roma (eight wins, three draws) are the only unbeaten sides in the division. Roma have the best attack with 31 goals; Inter have scored 28 and lost only once. Milan are fourth on 24, five points off the top, after a 2-1 win at Genoa, where they were two goals up after 19 minutes. Como drop to fifth on 23.

Lazio's first away draw

Gennaro Gattuso's side had won all five of their away league games before the trip to the Maradona, against a Napoli team missing eight injured players and a suspended player, Marianucci, according to ANSA. Davide Frattesi put Lazio ahead on 28 minutes, getting to Tijjani Noslin's through ball before Napoli's Amir Rrahmani. Three minutes into the second half, Napoli's Noa Lang crossed from the left and Lazio's Alfonso Pedraza, trying to clear, turned the ball into his own net. Napoli coach Massimiliano Allegri had swapped Kevin De Bruyne and Scott McTominay's positions at half-time, and Napoli pinned Lazio in their own half after the equaliser; Lazio's Reda Belahyane cleared a De Bruyne rebound off the line.

"We played a great first half, then in the first 15 minutes of the second half they crushed us," Gattuso told DAZN. He played down the table: "The reasoning has to be done in the last seven or eight games."

Inter back within a point

Inter were two up inside 19 minutes. Pio Esposito scored from a low cross by English wing-back Djed Spence on 12 minutes, and Marcus Thuram added the second after a poor clearance from the Como defence. Como did not have a shot on target until the hour, and their first-half chances were worth 0.04 expected goals, according to Opta data cited by Sky Sport. Late on, Como's Nico Paz hit the junction of post and bar. It was Inter's 11th Serie A win in a row against Como, the longest winning run in the club's history against a single opponent in the league, Sky Sport noted.

"After so much bitterness over last week's derby, we reacted brilliantly," Inter coach Cristian Chivu told Radio TV Serie A. Speaking to DAZN, he named Lazio, Como, Milan, Roma, Juventus and Napoli as rivals and added: "We're only at the eleventh game and the road is long."

After the break

Serie A returns on 21 November with Lazio at home to Lecce (14th, 10 points) and Roma away at Parma (16th, 8 points). Inter visit Atalanta (12th, 14 points) the next evening, the same Sunday that Milan host sixth-placed Frosinone.