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Serie A | Napoli 2-0 Sassuolo: Osimhen unstoppable

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2 years ago

4:52 am

Victor Osimhen transformed a penalty, Giacomo Raspadori missed his, and Kvicha Kvaratskhelia laid it on a plate for Giovanni Di Lorenzo as Napoli disposed of Sassuolo.

The Champions of Italy made their house debut in a packed stadium and had Kvaratskhelia again on the bench after muscular points. Sassuolo welcomed Ruan Tressoldi after suspension within the defeat to Atalanta, however Gregoire Defrel and Filippo Missori weren’t absolutely match, Agustin Alvarez a long-term absentee and Domenico Berardi nonetheless making an attempt to power by means of a switch to Juventus.

It took barely 60 seconds for Giacomo Raspadori to thump the upright from shut vary in opposition to his former membership after a well-worked transfer down the correct from Giovanni Di Lorenzo.

Napoli obtained a penalty following a VAR on-field overview, as Matteo Politano acquired the ball earlier than Daniel Boloca. Osimhen despatched Andrea Consigli the unsuitable solution to convert.

Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa twice went very shut with headers from nook kicks, as did Ruan Tressoldi together with his free header.

After the restart, Osimhen’s header shaved a coat of paint off the upright from Politano’s cross and Osimhen couldn’t redirect the Anguissa counter-attack.

Nonetheless, Sassuolo went right down to 10 males when Maxime Lopez foolishly continued protesting to the referee a number of instances till he was proven the purple card. He didn’t say something afterwards, suggesting he knew that he’d gone too far.

Raspadori stung Consigli’s gloves and Piotr Zielinski blasted over after a beautiful group transfer with 4 one-touch passes. Matias Vina risked an personal aim to intercept the Osimhen pull-back for Giovanni Di Lorenzo.

On the ensuing nook, a header struck the outstretched arm of Martin Erlic for one more penalty. Osimhen let Raspadori take it in opposition to his former membership, however the striker utterly mis-kicked, clipping the crossbar.

Kvaratskhelia got here off the bench for his season debut after muscular points and inside three minutes had picked the proper by means of ball to launch Di Lorenzo to make it 2-0 for Napoli.

Osimhen needed extra objectives and his header from a Zielinski nook was acrobatically fingertipped over the bar.

Napoli 2-0 Sassuolo

Osimhen pen 16 (N), Di Lorenzo 64 (N)

Despatched off: Maxime Lopez 51 (S)

Missed penalty: Raspadori 60 (N)