Serie A
Napoli 3-0 Cremonese: Kvaratthelia and Osimen gave the signal for the early coronation
After the usual suspects Kvarachelia and Osimen found their way back into the net, the Serie A leaders edged bottom Cremonese 3-0 to extend their lead over second-placed Inter to 16 points.
Napoli are looking unbeatable in this year’s Serie A after an impressive run since the start of the season and are still running with broken brakes even though we’re halfway through.
His latest victim was Cremonese in “Diego Armando Maradona”, with Spalletti’s blue armada prevailing 3-0 with characteristic comfort in the lower part of the campionato, thus earning an atypical revenge for being eliminated at the same stadium by the same opponent for the “16” won ” the Coppa Italia.
This was the sixth consecutive league win for Partenopei and 19th in their first 22 games, with Victor Osimen scoring in his side’s last six games (8 goals in that span), the first since Gonzalo Higuain in the 2015 season /16 was.
He also scored 17 league goals (top scorer) in 18 games, boasting the most productive season of his career.
The match
Napoli had an additional motivation for their sixth consecutive league win and that was to “take revenge” on Cremonese for knocking them out of the Coppa Italia, with Spalletti’s players being serious from the start of the game and not allowing their opponents thinking about how they could damage them again.
The first goal came even early, in the 21st minute, when Kvitsa Kvaratshelia, after a solo effort, fired a dribbling shot into the penalty area, becoming the first player in the top five European leagues in his first season to score at least 9 goals assistant
The Partenopei could have scored another goal in the first half due to chances, which they did in the second. In the 65th minute, Oshimen scored from a corner kick and the visitors’ inability to clear the ball from their box, giving the Nigerian even more of a chance in the battle for top scorer, scoring 17 goals in 18 appearances.
The icing on the cake was Elmas, who had come on in place of Zielinski eight minutes earlier, in the 79th minute to make it 3-0 for Napoli’s 19th win in 22 games, sending them 16 games to remain Inter’s +16 in the final .
NAPLES: Merret, Di Lorenzo, Rahmani, Kim, Rui (70′ Olivera), Angisa, Lobotka (86′ Deme), Zielinski (71′ Elmas) Lozano (83′ Entobele), Osimen, Kvarachelia (83′ Raspadori)
HANGING: Carnezeki, Ivo, Vazquez (68′ Gilione), Pickel (61′ Castanieti), Sernicola, Felix, Kirikes, Ferrari (46′ Valeri), Benassi, Meite (76′ Acela), Tzaut (61′ Tsofani)
The results of the 22nd game
- Milan – Turin 1-0 (62′ Giroud)
- Embolism – Spezia 2-2 (71′ Cambiaghi, 90+4′ Vignato / 25′ Penalty, 31′ Verde)
- Lecce – Rome 1-1 (7′ auto. Ibáñez / 17′ pen. Dybala)
- Lazio – Atalanta 0-2 (23′ Tzapacosta, 65′ Hoywood)
- Udinese-Sassuolo 2-2 (1′ Udoji, 28′ Bigol / 6′ Enrique, 45+2′ auto. Peres)
- Bologna-Monza 0-1 (25′ Donati)
- Juventus – Fiorentina 1-0 (34′ Rabio)
- Naples – Cremonese 3-0 (21′ Kvarachelia, 65′ Osimen, 79′ Elmas)
- 13/02 19:30 Verona – Salernitana
- 13/02 21:45 Samdoria-Inter
The highlights
Juventus 1-0 Fiorentina
Bologna – Monza 0-1
Udinese-Sassuolo 2-2
Lazio – Atalanta 0-2
Lecce – Roma 1-1
Embolism – Spezia 2-2
Milan – Torino 1-0
The program of the 23rd game day
- 17/02 21:45 Sassuolo – Naples
- 18/02 16:00 Samdoria-Bologna
- 18/02 19:00 Monza – Milan
- 18/02 21:45 Inter-Udinese
- 19/02 13:30 Atalanta-Lecce
- 19/02 16:00 Florence – Empoli
- 19/02 16:00 Salernitana – Lazio
- 19/02 19:00 Special – Juventus
- 19/02 21:45 Rome – Verona
- 20/02 21:45 Torino – Cremonese
Source: sport 24
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