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53 Sport maltatoday, SUNDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2013 FOOTBALL Napoli and Juventus win as Fiorentina defeat Milan NAPOLI moved within two points of Serie A leaders Roma as they claimed a 2-1 win over Catania. Jose Callejon opened the scoring after 15 minutes and the lead was doubled five minutes later as Marek Hamsik found the target. Lucas Castro reduced the deficit in the 25th minute but Napoli dominated the remainder of the game and the visitors were lucky to lose by just a single goal. Paul Pogba scored the only goal at Parma to ensure Juventus maintained their winning run ahead of a crucial Champions League tie against Real Madrid in midweek. Pogba decided a hard-fought encounter 13 minutes from the end when he was quickest to the ball after Fabio Quagliarella's longrange effort crashed back off the crossbar. The Frenchman still needed to keep his cool to beat Parma goal- keeper Antonio Mirante and secure a third win on the spin since Juve were beaten at the Bernabeu a fortnight ago. Fiorentina moved into fourth place in the standings thanks to a 2-0 win over AC Milan. Juan Vargas gave the Viola the lead in the 27th minute with a deflected free-kick before Borja Valero wrapped up victory midway through the second half with a tap in. The result was another blow to Milan, who are now winless in their last four games in all competitions and have won just two of their past nine league games to lie 10th in the standings. The defeat leaves them 16 points adrift of third-place Juventus and the last Champions League qualifying spot, with the pressure on coach Massimiliano Allegri likely to increase. Fiorentina's Juan Vargas celebrates after scoring FORMULA 1 Webber beats Vettel to pole in Abu Dhabi MARK Webber produced a brilliant performance in qualifying in Abu Dhabi on Saturday evening to snatch pole position away from Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel. The Australian put together three near-perfect sectors on his final Q3 run to record a lap that was just over a tenth of a second quicker than Vettel's best effort. Mercedes' Nico Rosberg was third, with team mate Lewis Hamilton spinning as he tried to improve on fourth. Q1 was a bit of a cliffhanger as lots of drivers made late improvements as they switched to Pirelli's soft tyres and the times changed with machine-gun rapidity. As the chequered flag fell Hamilton was 17th, then 18th, but he was out on a quick lap and when he finally crossed the line he stopped the clocks in 1m 40.693s, more than half a second up on former pacesetter, Ferrari's Felipe Massa, so the six who failed to go through were Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez, who ran too soon for his 1m 41.999s, Adrian Sutil on 1m 42.051s in his Force India, then the Caterhams and the Marussias. Again Giedo van der Garde was fastest of this quartet on 1m 43.252s ahead of Marussia's Jules Bianchi on 1m 43.398s and team mate Charles Pic on 1m 43.528s, with the second Marussia of Max Chilton 22nd on 1m 44.198s. However, Bianchi has a five-place grid penalty after changing his gearbox following his accident in FP3. Q2 was massively bad news for Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, who failed to better either 1m 41.093s or his team mate Massa's time and failed to get through to Q3 for the first time this season. The Brazilian just got through in 10th place with 1m 40.989s as Rosberg headed the session with 1m 40.473s, four-thousandths ahead of Hamilton. Behind Alonso, Paul di Resta was 12th for Force India with 1m 41.133s, then came Jenson Button's McLaren on 1m 41.200s, Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso on 1m 41.279s and the Williams duo of Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas on 1m 41.395s and 1m 41.447s. Hamilton, on 1m 40.510s, then Rosberg on 1m 40.419s set the initial pace in Q3 as Webber's 1m 40.759s first effort yielded only third place, but when Vettel went four-tenths faster than either Mercedes with 1m 40.091s the issue seemed settled. But then the second runs saw Webber slash his time down to 1m 39.957s, and Vettel come up short with 1m 40.075s as the tables were turned. Meanwhile, Rosberg failed to better his first-run time and Hamilton spun at Turn 14 on his second run, leaving the Mercedes to occupy the second row. Behind them, Kimi Raikkonen hauled his Lotus to fifth with 1m 40.542s just ahead of the again-impressive Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg on 1m 40.576s and a slightly disappointing Lotus of Romain Grosjean on 1m 40.997s. Massa, Ricciardo and McLaren's Sergio Perez each saved tyres by making only one run, with the Brazilian on 1m 41.015s, the Mexican on 1m 41.068s and the Australian on 1m 41.111s. With penalties applied, the grid will read: Webber, Vettel; Rosberg, Hamilton; Raikkonen, Hulkenberg; Grosjean, Massa; Perez, Ricciardo; Alonso, di Resta; Button, Vergne; Maldonado, Bottas; Gutierrez, Sutil; Van der Garde, Pic; Chilton, Bianchi. YOUR FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY www.maltatoday.com.mt