Edinson Cavani scored a hat-trick in the last half hour as Napoli came from two goals down to beat Lazio 4-3 and take second in Serie A.
Stefano Mauri gave the visitors a half-time lead with a delightful individual goal. He jinked past three Napoli players as he ran into the box before toe-poking the ball into the net off the post. Brazilian Andre Dias put Lazio further ahead with a neatly-taken volley 12 minutes after the restart.
Andrea Dossena, with a far-post header from an acute angle, and Cavani, nodding in umarked from five yards, pulled Napoli level only for Lazio to regain the lead through an own goal by Salvatore Aronica. But Cavani equalised again, winning and converting an 82nd-minute penalty after Giuseppe Biava was sent off, and the Uruguayan lobbed a dramatic winner in the 88th minute.
Napoli moved on to 62 points from 31 games, staying three behind leaders AC Milan, who beat Inter Milan 3-0 on Saturday. But defeat for Udinese at Lecce looks to have ended their outside chance of being involved in the title run-in. Lecce climbed out of the relegation zone with a 2-0 win thanks to second-half goals from Andrea Bertolacci. It was Udinese’s first Serie A defeat this year.
Elsewhere, Juventus kept alive their hopes of a top-six finish by beating AS Roma 2-0 away thanks to second-half goals from Milos Krasic and Alessandro Matri.
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Parma's 2-1 defeat at home to bottom club Bari cost coach Pasquale Marino his job. Edgar Alvarez's injury-time winner was too much for Parma chief executive Pietro Leonardi, who said: “We don’t want any more excuses.” Parma are now just two points above the relegation zone.
In an all-Sicilian clash, Catania beat Palermo 4-0 with all the goals coming in the second half. An own goal by Federico Balzaretti three minutes after the restart began the rout, with the Argentine pair Gonzalo Bergessio and Pablo Ledesma scoring within six minutes of each other just after the hour and Simone Pesce netting the fourth.
Cesena dropped into the bottom three after a 2-2 draw at home to Fiorentina while Sampdoria remain in a perilous position despite claiming a valuable point in a goalless draw at Chievo. Their city rivals Genoa lost 1-0 at home to Cagliari, with striker Robert Acquafresca grabbing the 15th-minute winner.