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Serie A | Napoli 1-2 Lazio: Sarri stuns Champions of Italy

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Serie A | Napoli 1-2 Lazio: Sarri stuns Champions of Italy

Lazio went from zero to hero, gorgeous reigning champions Napoli with a Luis Alberto back-heel flick and Daichi Kamada strike, together with two extra objectives disallowed.

These have been the highest two final time period, however had very completely different openings to 2023-24. Kvicha Kvaratskhelia made his first begin of the season after recovering from a minor knock, however the Aquile had Pedro fighting an ankle harm as they arrived nonetheless on the lookout for their first level of the marketing campaign.

Inside three minutes, Kvaratskhelia already noticed a shot deflected simply huge of the close to submit, then Ivan Provedel pushed a harmful Piotr Zielinski free kick out from underneath the bar. On the ensuing nook, Victor Osimhen’s header swung huge.

Provedel flew to fingertip a ferocious Kvaratskhelia strike over the bar, nevertheless it was Lazio who took the lead in opposition to the run of play.

It was a sensational aim, as Felipe Anderson burst down the precise and pulled again from the by-line for the cheeky Luis Alberto back-heel flick to shock Alex Meret on the close to submit.

Nevertheless, it didn’t final lengthy, as a result of Piotr Zielinski gathered from the sting of the realm and noticed his end take a double deflection off Daichi Kamada and Alessio Romagnoli to wrong-foot Provedel.

Felipe Anderson went on a run to squirm between two defenders and see his end blocked by Juan Jesus from shut vary, then Danilo Cataldi acquired again to dam off the Stanislav Lobotka help for Osimhen.

Inside a minute of the restart there have been probabilities at each ends, an enormous Provedel save on the Zielinski half-volley that was going underneath the bar, then Meret on Ciro Motionless though the offside flag went up.

Lazio restored their lead with an ideal counter-attacking transfer. Felipe Anderson robbed Zielinski in midfield, his go was let by way of by an aesthetic Luis Alberto dummy to search out Kamada, whose end from a decent angle went throughout Meret into the far backside nook.

Matteo Guendouzi made his Biancocelesti debut off the bench and an instantaneous influence, as a result of first he accomplished a give and go along with Zaccagni for a aim that was dominated offside by VAR.

Quickly after, Guendouzi had scored it himself by blasting in with the precise boot from the sting of the realm. Nevertheless, that too was disallowed, as Zaccagni was offside and the Luis Alberto go to him was intercepted by Di Lorenzo, main on to the Guendouzi end.

Pedro additionally had an ideal probability on the counter, solely to locate the ball when going clear, as Napoli struggled to trigger issues for Lazio.

Napoli 1-2 Lazio

Luis Alberto 30 (L), Zielinski 32 (N), Kamada 52 (L)