Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Italiano is counting on last night's home defeat to Empoli being a blip.

Empoli stunned the Viola 2-0 thanks to goals from Fraancesco Caputo and Emmanuel Gyasi.

Italiano later said: "It's an accident that can happen. We were in seventh heaven after Napoli and anything can still happen, today we found a team that punished us and we have to tell them well done.

"We created a lot but we weren't good with their goals. We could have woken up with an incredible ranking, we have to put this defeat aside just as we do with victories.

"When you lose you make defensive mistakes and in front of goal if you are not concrete, cool and clear then you lose the games. It was the usual Fiorentina, the one that won the games, today was a bad day.

"Who is better in the two areas wins games."

The coach also said: "At the end of the match I spoke to the boys for a minute, with clarity and serenity I said that many balls passed inside the area and we must try to be more alert, more lucid, more astute.

"Having our two attackers with only one goal is a shame: we have to improve quickly, the ball often stops in the last 20 metres and we have to be smarter."