<!--Article Start--> <h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong>Inter Milan rolled back the years to stretch their lead at the top of Serie A on Wednesday on a night of upsets that saw champions Juventus held by Frosinone and Roma lose to Sampdoria.</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: justify">Inter's blistering start to the season has left many commentators believing they have already stolen a march on four-time consecutive champions Juventus in the fight for this season's scudetto.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Only five matches into the campaign, those predictions look to be ringing true.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Brazilian Felipe Melo rose to head the game's only goal 11 minutes after the restart as Inter held on to claim their fifth consecutive win -- the first time the Nerazzurri have achieved such a feat since the start of the 1966-67 season.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Inter owner and president Erick Thohir was at the San Siro and said: "I'm delighted... winning our opening five games is incredible, but we have many other matches to win so we'll go one step at a time."</p> <p style="text-align: justify">His thoughts were echoed by coach Roberto Mancini, who when asked about their status as title favourites quipped: "Maybe we are, until our next league match!"</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Inter are away to high-flying Fiorentina this weekend, and Mancini added: "The first games of the season are all difficult, you can that by the fact other teams that should be fighting for the title are struggling.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"Teams get better as each game passes. It's one step at a time."</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Mancini's men sit top with a three-point lead on Fiorentina, who saw Jakub Blaszczykowski and Nikola Kalinic score one apiece in 11, late second-half minutes to secure a 2-0 home win over outclassed Bologna.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Sassuolo are only a point further adrift in third, thanks to the Tuscans' shock 1-0 win at Palermo, courtesy of Sergio Floccari's stunning first-half effort for the visitors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">At the Stadio Olimpico, Lazio made amends for their 5-0 humiliation at Napoli on Sunday with a deserved 2-0 win over Genoa that saw Filip Djordjevic, with a diving header and Brazilian Felipe Anderson, with a superb, curling effort, wrap up the points for Stefano Pioli's men.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong>Frosinone claim first points of the season after draw with Juventus</strong></h3> <a href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/04945844.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-210550" src="http://www.thehardtackle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/04945844-1024x789.jpg" alt="Juventus FC vs Frosinone Calcio" width="1024" height="789" /></a> <p style="text-align: justify">Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri rested a number of regulars, including goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon for the visit of Frosinone.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">But the Italian's tactics ultimately backfired after Leonardo Blanchard headed home from a corner in injury time to level Simone Zaza's strike minutes after the restart.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">It gave the new boys their first point of the season, and coach Roberto Stellone was particularly happy: "For an ex-Torino players, it's a particularly pleasing result."</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Juventus had claimed only one point from their opening three games, their worst start to the campaign in several decades, before ending their drought at Genoa on Sunday.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">This latest setback has left last season's beaten Champions League finalists in 10th place, eight points adrift of Inter.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Allegri hit out: "We can't be conceding corners to a team like Frosinone at this stage of the game.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"We just didn't manage this game well and paid the price for naive errors. We should have put the game beyond doubt well before then."</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong>Kostas Manolas scores own goal in Roma defeat</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: justify">Scudetto rivals Roma are faring slightly better, but coach Rudi Garcia was left ruing a massive defensive blunder as the Giallorossi looked to be heading for a well-deserved point at the Luigi Ferraris stadium.</p> . <p style="text-align: justify">Roma bossed the opening half and Sampdoria broke the deadlock against the run of play four minutes after the restart when Eder stepped up to fire a free kick just inside Morgan De Sanctis's near post.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Roma pulled level halfway through the second period when Mohamed Salah, unmarked inside the area, fired Miralem Pjanic's slide-rule pass into the roof of the net.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Five minutes from time Kostas Manolas's attempt to clear Eder's drive across goal was comical, the ball splicing into the net.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Roma's first defeat of the campaign left them in ninth place, seven points behind Inter and one behind AC Milan, who edged Udinese 3-2 on Tuesday.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><strong>By AFP</strong></p> <!--Article End-->