Udinese had to come back from 2-1 down to beat Sassuolo 3-2 in a dramatic encounter, with Beto again popping up with the decisive goal.
The Friulani were still without Ignacio Pussetto, while the visitors missed Jeremie Boga, Filip Djuricic, Filippo Romagna, Pedro Obiang and suspended Maxime Lopez.
Udinese took the lead early on, as Rodrigo Becao got down the right and rolled across for Gerard Deulofeu to side-foot home from 12 yards.
Sassuolo got back on track thanks to a howler from goalkeeper Marco Silvestri, who cleared it straight to Domenico Berardi, and the captain wasn’t going to look that gift horse in the mouth from 10 yards.
The Neroverdi took control of the match and turned it around completely too, Rogerio rolling across from the left for Davide Frattesi to get in front of Bram Nuytinck and fire first-time into the roof of the net.
Udinese were unlucky, losing two players to injury in the first half, but did get the rub of the green when Berardi wandered offside setting up Giacomo Raspadori’s goal.
Instead, Udinese equalised when a free kick was not cleared effectively, Nahuel Molina’s chest and volley from distance taking a huge deflection off Frattesi to wrong-foot Andrea Consigli.
Beto almost made it 3-2 for the hosts, but Consigli steered him wide and then plucked the ball off his foot.
Udinese did go in front when a through ball was deflected into the path of Roberto Pereyra, who rolled across for Beto to score. It was initially ruled offside, but the goal given after a VAR check.
Deulofeu’s curler skimmed the far top corner, but Udinese went down to 10 men after Jean-Victor Makengo’s rather harsh second yellow card in quick succession.
Udinese 3-2 Sassuolo
Deulofeu 8 (U), Berardi 15 (S), Frattesi 28 (S), Molina 39 (U), Beto 51 (U)
Sent off: Makengo 89 (U)