The Neapolitans engage Milan and next Saturday at the Maradona summit clash with the Nerazzurri
VENICE. Three-way fight for the Scudetto: Napoli won 2-0 in Venice and tied Milan to second place in the standings at -1 from leaders Inter. Next week Spalletti’s team will receive the Nerazzurri at Maradona in what promises to be a fiery challenge for the title, even if Dzeko and his team-mates always have a game to recover. Al Penzo ends 2-0, the goals decide in the recovery of a recovered Osimhen (sixth center of the season) and Petagna. A match that Napoli has always kept in control, risking the minimum wage and hitting just when the Venetians began to believe they could snatch at least one point. Venice, which with this defeat slips to third from last place in the middle of the relegation zone, Zanetti’s team has not won in ten games and hopes to find in the new signings (which still need time to enter) the strength to get up again. In Naples, Spalletti found Osimhen as a central striker from the beginning, the Nigerian is on the pitch with a special carbon mask. In support of Osimhen the coach, former of the match, lines up Politano, Zielinski and Insigne. In Venice, the Covid emergency returns, Zanetti returns to the four-man defense and in attack he relies on a trident made up of Nani, Okereke and Johnsen. Before the match, a protest by the Venetian fans against the former patron Zamparini, who passed away this week and who has not yet been forgiven the decision to leave the Lagoon in 2002 to buy Palermo, should be noted.
As expected, Napoli immediately leaned forward in search of the goal. The Venezia, however, never give up playing and restarting at speed when they have the opportunity. The Azzurri were the first to be dangerous after about twenty minutes, with a slightly high right-foot from Politano. The lagoon replica is immediate with a counterattack orchestrated by Nani, on which Crnigoj of right winger kicks to the side. At half an hour Napoli very close to the advantage with a powerful right from Osimhen from a tight angle with the ball hitting the post. Again immediate is the replica of Venezia with Okereke who breaks through on the left and on the right engages Ospina. On the rebound of the goalkeeper Lobotka anticipates Cuisance’s tap-in.
Same script in the second half, with Napoli more maneuverable but Venice first to become dangerous with a right low shot by Crnigoj from distance barely saved by Ospina. After a pause due to a fortuitous clash between Ebuehi and the referee Mariani, with the Venezia player having the worst, Napoli took the lead in the 60th minute with a great header by Osimhen from a cross from the right by Politano. Venezia feel the blow and Napoli immediately try to take advantage of it with Zielinski who nearly double. The orange and green are struggling to react, so with the passing of the minutes Napoli is limited to controlling the game. The whirlwind of changes from one side to the other then breaks the pace of the match and helps Spalletti’s team even more to keep Venezia’s attempts to look out over Ospina at bay. In the final half, in fact, the Azzurri are still close to scoring with the newly entered Petagna on the counterattack. Finally, in the infinite recovery (10 minutes), first there is the expulsion of Ebuehi and then in the 100 ‘comes the doubling of Napoli signed by Petagna on the counterattack. For the Scudetto there is also Napoli.
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