Fiorentina win third straight Europa match; Napoli lose perfect record
Fiorentina secured a third straight win in the Europa League but fellow Italian side Napoli's 100 percent record came to an end as Europe's second-tier club competition resumed with the third round of group games Thursday.
Juan Vargas' 38th-minute strike earned Fiorentina a 1-0 victory at PAOK Salonika and a five-point lead in Group K.
Napoli dropped their first points of the Europa League campaign as they went down 2-0 away to Swiss side Young Boys on Thursday night.
Goals from Guillaume Hoarau in the 52nd-minute and Leonardo Bertone in injury-time decided the contest and moved the hosts level top of Group I on goal difference.
Sparta Prague joined the pair on six points, but their 3-0 win at Slovan Bratislava was marred by crowd trouble which caused the game to be suspended for around 40 minutes.
Fighting between rivals fans called a temporary half to proceedings shortly before half-time.
When the match restarted, second-half goals from David Lafata, Tiemoko Konate and Ladislav Krejci earned the visitors victory.
Holders Sevilla had to settle for a goalless draw at Standard Liege, but still held on to top spot in Group G.
Feyenoord were unable to take advantage as they went down 3-1 at Rijeka.
The Croatians picked up their first win in the pool to move above their visitors and level on four points with Liege in second.
Andrej Kramaric scored a second-half hat-trick for the hosts, with the third from the spot, with Jens Toornstra briefly levelling for the Rotterdammers.
Wolfsburg burst back into contention in Group H with an impressive 4-2 win over Krasnodar in Russia.
The visitors were indebted to a fine display from Kevin De Bruyne, who helped set up Ivica Olic for the opener and then scored twice himself either side of a superb strike from Luiz Gustavo.
The hosts' efforts came from Andreas Granqvist, whose penalty made it 2-1, and a late Wanderson effort.
With Lille drawing 0-0 at home to Everton in the other game in the pool, Everton lead it by a point from Wolfsburg, with only three points separating the English side from Krasnodar at the bottom.
Guingamp moved about the Greeks into second with a 0-0 draw away to Dinamo Minsk.
AaB defeated Dynamo Kiev 3-0 to leave three teams in six points in Group J.
Two goals from Nikolaj Thomsen following an opener from Thomas Enevoldsen ended Dynamo's perfect pool record.
Steaua Bucharest joined them on two wins, and topped the pool on goal difference, after a 2-1 win at home to pointless Rio Ave.
A first-half double from Raul Rusescu put the Romanians in control before Yonathan Del Valle pulled one back just after half-time.
In the only match in Group L Trabzonspor beat Lokeren 2-0, Mustapha Yatabare and Kevin Constant on target, to consolidate second place in the group.
Besiktas were impressive winners in the other game in the group as they won 4-0 away to Partizan Belgrade to go level with Spurs on five points at the top of Group C.
Veli Kavlak and Demba Ba scored in the first half for the Turks and Oguzhan Ozyakup and Gokhan Tore struck in quick succession after the break to seal a comprehensive win.
Borussia Monchengladbach also hit five as they crushed Apollon Limassol 5-0, scoring four times after the break.
Ibrahima Traore opened the scoring in the 11th minute and struck again in the 66th, adding to Branimir Hrgota's effort 10 minutes earlier.
Late strikes from Patrick Herrmann and Thorgan Hazard completed the rout.
The win put Gladbach second in Group A, two points behind Villarreal, who beat FC Zurich 4-1.
Cani put the Spaniards ahead after six minutes, but Marco Schonbachler levelled just before half-time.
Luciano Vietto, Bruno Soriano and Giovani dos Santos added further goals after the break.
Inter Milan lost their 100 percent record as they were held to a goalless draw at home to St Etienne.
They remained top of Group F on seven points, with Azerbaijani side FK Karabakh going second following a 1-0 win at Dnipro thanks to a Muarem Muarem goal.
Dinamo Moscow also moved on to nine points in Group E with a 2-1 win at Estoril.
PSV Eindhoven are second in the pool following a 1-1 at home to Panathinaikos.
Celtic and Salzburg are level on seven points at the top of Group D. Alan scored a hat-trick as Salzburg won 4-2 at home to Dinamo Zagreb, while the Scots beat Astra Giurgiu 2-1.
Torino top Group B after a 2-0 win at home to HJK Helsinki, with Club Brugge's 1-1 draw with FC Copenhagen leaving the Belgians second.
