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Serie A | Napoli 1-3 Fiorentina: Viola rule Vesuvius

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Serie A | Napoli 1-3 Fiorentina: Viola rule Vesuvius

Fiorentina shocked Scudetto holders Napoli on the Stadio Maradona with Josip Brekalo, Jack Bonaventura and Nico Gonzalez, regardless of Victor Osimhen ending his penalty taboo, and catch Juventus in third place.

These sides went into the weekend locked collectively on 14 factors and with tiring European exams, because the Partenopei misplaced 3-2 to Actual Madrid and the Viola got here again from 2-0 down to carry Ferencvaros. Amir Rrahmani, Juan Jesus and Pierluigi Gollini have been nonetheless out of motion, whereas Oliver Christensen, Dodo, Yerry Mina and Gaetano Castrovilli didn’t make the journey and Nico Gonzalez was solely match for the bench.

Napoli wore their particular version Halloween kits and it was a glowing begin at each ends, Victor Osimhen clearing a Lucas Martinez Quarta overhead kick virtually off the road, then Giovanni Di Lorenzo firing over from a tough angle.

Fiorentina broke by way of when Martinez Quarta thumped the upright on a cross from the correct, then Josip Brekalo nutmegged Alex Meret from the tightest of angles on the rebound.

Giacomo Bonaventura had his strike charged down, sparking a Napoli counter-attack that culminated with Osimhen bundling over the road, but it surely was disallowed for an offside place within the chaotic transfer.

Stanislav Lobotka’s ferocious strike stung Pietro Terracciano’s gloves, however Andre Frank Zambo Anguissa went off with a left thigh downside and was surprisingly changed by Giacomo Raspadori, who was informed to stay to Arthur Melo.

Michael Kayode was prepared on the again submit to clear a harmful Giovanni Di Lorenzo low cross, whereas Osimhen had penalty appeals when he collided with Martinez Quarta on a throw-in, however the referee thought the Napoli man had backed into the defender.

There was a penalty moments later, as Fabiano Parisi chested a cross again to his goalkeeper, not realising Osimhen was able to pounce and was inevitably introduced down by a livid Pietro Terracciano. For the primary time for the reason that miss towards Bologna and the TikTok video scandal, Osimhen stepped as much as the spot and transformed.

After the restart, M’Bala Nzola went clear on the Bonaventura cross and laid it off for Jonathan Ikone, who thumped the bottom of the close to submit.

Osimhen pounced on one other poor back-pass, this time from Kayode, however Terracciano made himself large to disclaim the Nigerian one-on-one.

It was large open with each groups surging ahead to assault and Fiorentina restored their benefit. Arthur’s by way of ball discovered Alfred Duncan, it bounced off Matias Olivera’s shin and became an unintended help for Bonaventura to comb in from 12 yards.

Kayode fired over from a decent angle, whereas Rudi Garcia made some dangerous adjustments to inject recent power, taking off Osimhen, Lobotka and Zielinski.

Parisi made a determined interception to cease Raspadori establishing Giovanni Simeone 10 yards from objective, whereas Simeone’s looping header was pushed over the bar and Gianluca Gaetano fired astray.

As a substitute, Fiorentina added a 3rd in stoppages when Parisi rolled throughout from the left and Nico Gonzalez was able to faucet in.

Napoli 1-3 Fiorentina

Brekalo 7 (F), Osimhen pen 45 (N), Bonaventura 63 (F), Nico Gonzalez 93 (F)

08-10-2023 19:45

MatchDay 8

Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

Napoli

Fiorentina

1 – 3

Participant statistic

1st half

	7′	Josip Brekalo
Victor Osimhen	45+5′
	45+4′	Pietro Terracciano

2nd half

	63′	Giacomo Bonaventura
	69′	Lucas Martínez Quarta
	70′	Giacomo Bonaventura
	89′	Luca Ranieri
Giovanni Simeone	90+1′
Jens Cajuste	90+5′
	90+3′	Nicólas González (Help: Fabiano Parisi)