Napoli remain unstoppable and take the lead again

Napoli had more trouble than expected to beat Thiago Motta’s Bologna, but a tight 3-2 helped them regain the Serie A lead stolen by Atalanta, who are now two points adrift. from them on Saturday for a few hours. Luciano Spalletti’s team remains unstoppable this season, remaining unbeaten in both the ‘calcium’ and the Champions League and accumulating ten consecutive wins in both competitions.

This dedicated, supportive and resourceful Napoli has one player from whom its offensive football derives. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is no longer a surprise and every game he dazzles his fans with his runs, changes of pace and assists.

Avalanche Kvaratskhelia

The match started with the absolute dominance of Napoli, but until the middle of the first they had several clear chances, which Kvaratskhelia always created.

So, in the 20th minute, the Georgian winger extended a pass through the middle with great class and left Giacomo Raspadori alone, whose cross shot skimmed the post.

Five minutes later, Kvaratskhelia set up Mario Rui, who hit the crossbar. And on the next play it was Matteo Politano who missed a sung goal after receiving from the Georgian by shooting high with the goal all to himself.

Bologna scores with their first shot

Thiago Motta’s Bologna withstood Napoli’s knockdown chances as best they could and, as is often the case, when a team concedes, they usually pay.

A perfectly detailed play allowed the Bolognese to advance to the market with their first shot between the three sticks. Nicolás Domínguez breaks the lines by passing to left-back Andrea Cambiaso, who instead of shooting, prefers to pass behind for Joshua Zirkzee to cross the net (41′).

Juan Jesus and Lozano returned

0-1 was completely unfair but Napoli equalized before the break by unleashing their wide variety of resources. Set-piece plays were also part of Luciano Spalletti’s strategy and this again resulted in a corner which was converted into a goal by central defender Juan Jesus when he received a rebound from the visiting defense (45′).

In the second half, Napoli seemed to regain the victory thanks to the play of Kvaratskhelia, whose dry shot was caught by Lukasz Skorupski, but after the rebound Hirving Lozano took advantage of a dead ball to score from a low angle (49). ‘).

Meret puts emotion into her frustration

But not long after Alex Meret, Napoli goalkeeper, brought Bologna back into the game with a long shot from Musa Barrow that bounced in front of him and swallowed (52′).

Napoli lost control of the game, possession balanced to the maximum and Bologna dared to attack in a crazy match in this second 45 minutes with a total of up to 40 shots on goal, most of them, yes, poorly directed .

Osimhen sentence

But Napoli have plenty of punch this season and Victor Osimhen, brought on at the break by Spalletti after reappearing against Ajax on Wednesday, certainly tipped the balance this time after receiving, of course, a great through ball from Kvaratskhelia and beat Skorupski on his way out (69′).

Piotr Zielinski made it 4-2 with a shot that hit the post (79′) and, although he had options until the end, Bologna were still without a win in their four games since the arrival of Thiago Motta and, 17th in the table , just two points away from relegation.