Roma defeat Napoli in match of the week

Miralem Pjanic scored twice as Serie A leaders Roma stretched their winning start to the league season to eight games.

Miralem Pjanic celebrates as Roma defeat Napoli.
Miralem Pjanic celebrates as Roma defeat Napoli.

The playmaker will be pulling the strings for Bosnia-Herzegovina at next year's World Cup, the country's first, but Rudi Garcia's Roma are the club side fortunate to have the 23-year-old in their ranks.

He whipped home a brilliant free-kick shortly before half-time before driving in a penalty to secure the 2-0 home win over Napoli, who were watched from the stands by their former player Diego Maradona.

Napoli had defender Paolo Cannavaro sent off as he had a bad night, giving way and being punished with cards for each of the dead-ball kicks from which Roma scored.