Okereke helps Cremonese upset Osimhen’s Napoli on Ballardini’s debut

Two Nigerian strikers have been in motion, however one emerged tops on the evening

Nigerian striker David Okereke supplied an help for Cremonese of their penalty shootout victory over Osimhen’s Napoli within the Copa Italia.

Napoli have been huge favourites to say the win towards Cremonese once they welcomed them to the Stadio Diego Amando Maradona.

Nevertheless, Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti opted to tinker along with his squad. He rested majority of his greatest legs for the tie, and talisman Victor Osimhen was left on the bench.

In the meantime, Okereke began for Cremonese in Davide Ballardini’s first recreation in cost on the membership.

Okereke justified his inclusion within the crew, supplying the help for Charles Pickel’s opening objective within the 18th minute.

Nevertheless, Napoli responded with targets from Juan Jesus and Giovanni Simeone earlier than halftime.

Okereke was proven a yellow card throughout halftime for dissent. He was then taken off within the sixty fifth minute for Ghanaian Felix Afena-Gyan. Okereke registered 19 touches and two key passes along with his help.

Napoli managed the second half, however Cremonese leveled the scoring on the loss of life by Afena-Gyan to ship the sport into additional time.

Spalletti launched Osimhen in additional time, however he was unable to do a lot. His two pictures have been saved by Marco Carnesecchi within the Cremonese objective.

The sport trickled into penalties, and Napoli eventually lost 5-4, as Stanislas Lobotka missed his spot-kick. Cremonese will play Roma within the quarterfinals.