The game of the season opens the 18th cycle in Italy. The leader Napoli now hosts the hot Juventus, their runner-up in the table who have won all eight of the last rounds and can narrow the gap between them to just four points.
In fact, Juventus have won all of their games in Serie A since the embarrassing loss to Maccabi Haifa in the Champions League and have also kept a clean sheet in all of those games, including against Inter and Lazio, but will they be able to do so on the field of the best attacking team in the league? Napoli, as you know, returned from the World Cup backlog with a 1:0 loss to Inter at San Siro, but recovered with an away win over Sampdoria. She now returns home for her first game since November 12.
The guest arrived with a long list of injured, which includes, among others, Dushan Vlahovic, Paul Pogba, Juan Cuadardo and Leonardo Bonucci, but Massimiliano Allegri’s lineup includes Federico Caeza, who since returning from the injury that sidelined him for many months has only played as a substitute. Alongside him in the attack are also Angel Di Maria and the Polish Arkadiusz Milik, ex-Napoli. As expected, in the host’s attack, the stars Habicha Cabrezdalia and Victor Osiman together with Matteo Politano came up.
The guest arrived with a long list of injured, which includes, among others, Dushan Vlachowicz, Paul Pogba, Juan Cuadardo and Leonardo Bonucci, but Massimiliano Allegri’s lineup includes Federico Caeza, who since returning from the injury that sidelined him for many months has only played as a substitute. Alongside him in the attack are also Angel Di Maria and the Polish Arkadiusz Milik, ex-Napoli. As expected, in the attack of the host, the stars Habicha Cabrezdalia and Victor Osiman together with Matteo Politano came up.
the progress of the game
13th minute: Osiman managed to free himself from Bremer and a long ball sent to him put him one on one with the goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, but from a difficult angle he did not find the frame.
14th minute: Goal! This time Osiman scored and put Napoli up 0:1. Cabrezdalia with a long kick from the box was stopped by the goalkeeper, but the ball was pushed straight to Osiman who found the net from close range. The 11th goal of the season for the top scorer of the Italian league.
20th minute: The brakeman Amir Rahmani made a mistake, told Di Maria to move towards the goal, he swung his left leg and saw the ball hit the crossbar.
31 min: A corner by Juventus from the right almost ended up in the goal after a bad exit from Merte, but Bremer hit it wide.
39th minute: Goal! Napoli with a 0:2 advantage. Osiman gave up the kick and handed it to Kavrazdalia, who was left alone in front of Szczesny and rolled into the net.
42nd minute: Goal! Juventus came back to life with a goal by Angel Di Maria. The Argentinian tried to complete a double pass with Locatelli, but the ball hit Kim, returned to him, the attempt to double pass with Milik was much more successful and ended with the Pole scoring an easy goal for him. 2:1.
45th minute: Almost an embarrassing own goal made it 2:2 seconds before halftime. Rahmani tried to prevent a lift into the box, it ended with Mart with great instinct preventing the stopper from scoring on his own goal.
55th minute: Goal! Napoli’s third. The Juventus defense didn’t get along with a corner from Kabazdalia from the right, Rahmani stood uncovered in the box, kicked a volley and nailed the 1:3.
65th minute: Goal! This is already a defeat. Bremer got into trouble and instead of moving away, he sent a message to Mario Roy, who immediately released the ball to Cabezdalia and he lifted a ball from David to Osiman, who from close range hit his second of the game to make it 1:4.
72nd minute: Goal! 1:5 to Napoli! Almas, who came off the bench for the second half in place of Politano, hit Kostic, kicked a ball that hit Alex Sandro’s knee, changed direction and penetrated inside.
The 18th round matches in Italy:
Carmonza – Monza (Saturday, 16:00)
Lecce – Milan (Saturday, 19:00)
Inter – Verona (Saturday, 21:45)
Sassuolo – Lazio (Sunday, 1:30 p.m.)
Turin – Spezia (Sunday, 16:00)
Udinese – Bologna (Sunday, 16:00)
Atalanta – Salernitana (Sunday, 19:00)
Rome – Fiorentina (Sunday, 21:45)
Empoli – Sampdoria (Monday, 21:45)