This Saturday, Napoli extended his impressive streak in the Italian soccer league to 11 consecutive victories, beating Udinese 3-2, and goes into the break imposed by the 2022 World Cup, very comfortable up front.
They will be at least eight points ahead of the closest pursuers, or more, if Lazio and AC Milan lose points, in their games on Sunday.
Luciano Spalletti’s men arrive at this stage of the championship with a ‘devil’ rhythm and reached 3-0 normally, before going through a small scare in the second half, when the Udine formation was reduced to the smallest margin.
Victor Osimhen’s header opened the scoring on 15 minutes, reinforcing the Nigerian’s top spot on the league’s top scorer list with nine goals.
The 2-0 came in the 31st minute, with a superb curved shot from the Pole Piotr Zielinski.
Elif Elmas, a Normacedonian international, seemed to have killed the game in the 58th minute, to the delight of the spectators who filled the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, who already ‘dream’ of a championship that they only won with the Argentine, in 1987 and 1990.
The result was ‘heavy’ for Udinese’s quality of play, which started well in the second half, motivated to discuss the result.
It would be another Macedonian to make it 3-1: Ilija Nestorovski, who scored in the 79th minute. After three minutes, the German Lazar Samardzic also scored and ‘scared’ the home team, especially since there were still ten minutes to play.
Later, we witnessed something rarely seen this season: Napoli controlling the ball, even ‘burning time’ to hold on to the tangential victory.
The Portuguese Mário Rui entered almost ‘on top’ of the break for the Napoli defense, playing a good game, giving a lot of consistency to the left wing. Beto, the fourth top scorer in the League, was the other Portuguese in action, without luck in the Udinese attack and replaced midway through the second half, on 71′, by Nestorovski.
On Sunday’s game schedule, there is a theoretically difficult journey from Lazio to the Juventus field.
As for the champion, AC Milan, coming off a disappointing draw with Cremonese, now hosts Fiorentina, Sporting Braga’s opponent in the Europa Conference League.
Source: TSF
