Serie A's Week 3 has a proper heavyweight round

Como's second test

Genoa host Como to open Week 3, and the away side arrive with something they didn't have a fortnight ago: proof. Beating Napoli, even a Napoli side still finding their rhythm under Antonio Conte, is the kind of result that changes how a newly promoted club is treated by everyone else in the division. Genoa at home is a different puzzle entirely, less glamour, more grind, and it'll say more about Cesc Fàbregas's Como than the Napoli scalp did.

Inter vs Napoli, straight after the fall

Napoli don't get long to sit with that defeat. They travel to Inter on the same weekend, and Simone Inzaghi's side will fancy their chances of making the champions' bruises worse. It's an early measuring-stick fixture for both, Inter looking to build early separation at the top, Napoli looking to prove Como was the exception rather than the pattern.

Fiorentina, Torino and the weekend's quieter business

Fiorentina host Torino in a fixture that won't dominate timelines but matters plenty to both clubs trying to find their level after two rounds. Roma against Atalanta carries more weight: Gian Piero Gasperini's old side and his new one, in a fixture that always seems to carry a little extra needle regardless of where either club sits in September.

Juventus vs Milan closes the round

Sunday's headline act is Juventus hosting Milan, two clubs who spent the summer being asked hard questions about their ceilings and neither has fully answered yet. It's only Week 3, but a derby-adjacent fixture like this one tends not to feel like early-season noise to the fans inside the ground, whatever the table says on Monday morning.

None of these results are in yet, and Serie A at this stage of the season is still mostly vibes and small sample sizes. But a weekend that includes Como's second statement match, an Inter-Napoli collision and Juventus-Milan is not a quiet one by any definition, whatever the final whistle ends up saying.