Napoli paid for the champion’s hangover and fell to Monza

With some new names of the eleven types that won the third ‘Scudetto’ in its history, the Naples lost 2-0 in their visit to the stadium of Monza and conceded his fourth defeat on the course at A seriesafter proclaiming himself champion two days ago.

After winning the league after drawing against Udinese, Luciano Spalletti He decided to bet clearly on the less important players across the course. if in front of Fiorentina five unusual players played, against Monza he repeated the number and wanted footballers Pierluigi Gollini, Bartosz Bereszynski, john jesus, Elif Elmas either Alessio Zerbin they appeared in his starting eleven.

Alex Meret, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Kim Min-Jae, Tanguy Ndombélé or Giovanni Di Lorenzo, while others prefer Mathias Olivera, Amir Rrahmani, Andre Zambo Anguissa, Piotr Zielinski, Stanislav Lobotka or the scorer Victor Osimhengave polish to the Italian coach’s lineup.

On the opposite side, Monza, comfortably installed in the central zone of the table and with nothing at stake than the end of the season in the ‘top ten’ of Serie A, has nothing to lose and, without any pressure, jumps onto the grass of the stadium Brianteo eager please.

Of course, before he made the corridor corresponding to Naples, the second he received after Fiorentina last week. But the applause from the Monza players ended within a minute of Spalletti’s men leaving the pitch, having, after the initial whistle, weakened to finish the first half behind on the scoreboard.

Although the initial action was very even, with one shot on goal for each team and with almost the same possession (53 percent for Napoli and 47 for Monza), it was Dany Mota who managed to celebrate the only goal after taking advantage of a good combination in between Charles Augustus and Matteo Pessina to score 1-0 at will.

Anguissa was the only Napoli player to score a try Michele DiGregorio before the break. He did it without success, in the regulation time limit and it was not a warning of a possible improvement after going through the changing rooms. On the contrary, Monza returned to the most dominant grass and soon found a way to score points to increase their profit.

Andrea Petagna He is in charge of opening the gap on the scoreboard. He grabbed a rebound inside the area and with a superb left-footed shot he beat Gollini, who was unable to keep out Napoli’s second in the 54th minute. Then Spalletti, tired of experiments, brought on Kvaratskhelia and Di Lorenzo pitch to find. an equalizer.that didn’t come

In the end, Napoli gave up and two games after winning the Italian League again after a 33-year drought, they went down on their knees to show that champions are human and can lose games. Until the clash against Monza, he had only been beaten three times by Milanhe lazio and the Inter. Monza joined the famous list of clubs that managed to beat Spalletti’s new Napoli and added three points without affecting the Serie A standings.

MONZA

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NAPLES

2 – Monza: Gregory said; Ciurria, Izzo (Antov, min.83), Marlon, Caldirola, Carlos Augusto; Dany Mota, Pessina (Machín, min.83), Rovella (Sensi, min.76), Caprari (Birindelli, min.68); Petagna (Carboni, min.83).

0 – Naples: Gollini; Bereszynski (Di Lorenzo, min.66), Juan Jesus, Rrahmani, Olivera; Anguissa (Raspadori, min.62), Lobotka (Simeone, min.79), Zielinski; Elmas (Politano, min.62), Osimhen and Zerbin (Kvaratskhelia, min.46).

the objectives: 1-0, min.18: Dany Mota; 2-0, min.54: Petagna.

Referee: Francesco Cosso. He showed a yellow card to Caldirola (min. 23) of Monza and Elmas (min. 52) of Napoli.

happenings: match corresponding to the thirty-fifth day of Serie A played at the Brianteo stadium in Monza before around 10,000 spectators.

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