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Giant Killers! Okereke helps Cremonese end Napoli’s Cup Aspirations
Cremonese surprised Napoli, knocking out the Serie A leaders out of the Coppa Italia in an enthralling spherical of 16 sport on the Diego Armando Maradona on Tuesday evening.
To date this season, Cremonese have one received as soon as in common time – their final 20 matches throughout all competitions.
On the day, Nigerian ahead David Okereke was essential to his aspect’s first objective, when he offered the help for Charles Pickle’s objective within the 18th minute.
Okereke himself went shut, on a number of events, however he was denied by Napoli defenders and goalkeeper.
In the meantime, Luciano Spalletti had dropped his prime scorer, Victor Osimhen, to the bench.
And so goalscoring duties really feel on Giovanni Simeone and defender Juan Jesus who cancelled the deficit and turned the sport on its head, however Napoli let the lead slip.
Substitute Felix Afena-Gyan, who had changed Okereke within the sixty fifth minute, leveled the scores with three minutes of normal time left.
In further time, there was extra drama because the guests had been decreased to 10 males when Leonardo Sernicola was proven a second yellow.
Moments later Osimhen was launched and the Ahead may have received the sport for his aspect, however he did not execute from two massive probabilities he obtained.
With the rains pouring down in Naples, the sport went into penalties and Napoli’s Stanislav Lobotka missed, for Felix Afena-Gyan to transform the profitable objective – after Osimhen gave the hosts some hope.
Cremonese had been with out Cyriel Dessers within the sport, he was not even listed for the match. La Cremo will now face AS Roma within the quarter-final subsequent month.
Within the meantime, Davide Ballardini’s aspect return to the Serie A, nonetheless trying to find their first win, after they journey to Bologna for a Monday evening fixture.
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