Five observations from the weekend's Serie A action

The seven-times reigning champions have 15 points from five games, three points ahead of last year's runners-up Napoli.

Here are five things we learned from Serie A this weekend:

Ronaldo caps emotional week

"Another important victory! Come on, guys, all together! #finoallafine" (until the end), wrote the five-time Ballon d'Or winner after a week of highs a lows. The previous weekend, the Portuguese superstar had scored his first goals for Juventus with a double against Sassuolo. Then he was controversially sent off for the first time in the Champions League in Valencia. His desire for redemption was fulfilled when he broke through in the 81st minute, after Frosinone had frustrated Juventus' attacks. In added time, substitute Bernardeschi controlled the ball well to finish off a Ronaldo counterattack.

Chiesa family affair

Italian winger Federico Chiesa, 20, celebrated scoring the third goal for Fiorentina in a 3-0 win over SPAL by running over to hug his younger brother Lorenzo, also a promising footballer in the team's youth academy, and a ball-boy for the Tuscany club on Saturday, watched by dad Enrico, also a former Italian international and Fiorentina player.

"Seeing them both down there, wearing the Viola jersey, with Federico embracing his brother with such a protective air, it was truly moving," mum Francesca Chiesa told 'Firenzeviola.it'.

"It reminded me of when Enrico embraced Federico when he was a ball-boy. For a moment, the two phases of life crossed over."

Roma spineless

Former Roma coach Claudio Ranieri believes the Serie A giants "sold their backbone" during the summer transfer window creating a problem for coach Eusebio Di Francesco.

Roma finished third last season but sold several players, including goalkeeper Alisson to Liverpool, Radja Nainggolan to Inter and Kevin Strootman to Marseille, and are 14th after a 2-0 defeat at Bologna.

"Eusebio is one of the best young coaches we have in Italy, for reasons of financial fair play the team has been changed, three players who were the backbone of Rome have been sold, I trust him and I hope he can continue to do his work, he needs to stimulate the group to find the key to the problem," Ranieri told Radio anch'io Sport.

"I am a fan, Rome is in my heart, but I hope that Di Francesco can move forward."

Quickfire Higuain fails to lift Milan

Ex-Juventus player Gonzalo Higuain scored his first goal at the San Siro after just two minutes but AC Milan twice let their advantage slip and were held 2-2 by Atalanta.

Gennaro Gattuso's side have just one win from four games, and are 12th in the table, with a game in hand.

The former European giants also threw away a two-goal lead to lose at Napoli, with Higuain rescuing a 1-1 draw in Cagliari.

"This is a two-faced AC Milan right now, as soon as we drop the intensity we start struggling," said Milan sporting director Lorenzo.

"Throughout the game, we do really good things and then we struggle.

"It's not an alibi, but if we look at the past few years, AC Milan have always come sixth in the league."

Hamsik reaches milestone

Slovak international Marek Hamsik reached 400 top-flight appearances in Italy against Torino as Napoli -- under new boss Carlo Ancelotti -- kept touch with champions Juventus.

Of those, 399 have come in the Napoli shirt along with one game for Brescia.

Hamsik -- also Napoli's record goalscorer with 120 goals -- has played 506 total games for the club, and is closing in on former captain Giueseppi Bruscolotti's record of 511.