Napoli shared the points with Bologna

He bologna He stood up this Saturday at Naples (2-2), champion of Serie A, and recovered from the double from the Nigerian Victor Osimhen in a match with a chaotic ending in which he was on the verge of getting all three points but which, on the other hand, leaves him with almost no chance of going to Europe next season.

Several teams are already fighting for something in Serie A and some are thinking of a penalty against Juventus of UEFA. This is the case of bolognawhich is adjacent Monza, Torino and Fiorentina are fighting for eighth place, waiting for the Turin team that cannot play in the Conference League to keep their place. And it was noticed on the field in their last game of the season in front of their fans, where they managed to stop what has been the best team of the season.

A Napleschampion since May 4, whose sole goal is for his striker to become the first African ‘capocannoniere’ – as the top scorer is known in Italy – in the history of Serie A. In the double placed him 25 pointsfour more than his chaser, the Argentine Lautaro Martínez.

Nor does the Partenopean team need to change their playing style to achieve this because the Nigerian is completely solvent and self-sufficient, as he showed against Bologna.

From the very beginning, the Naples He has given signs that, despite nothing being at stake, this is not a team that has been wandering around in recent days. It is the sign of a Spalletti who, against all odds, is living through his most turbulent time on the bench of the southern club, whose continuity is more than up in the air despite historic success.

The Neapolitan team maintained its usual high pressure in the first minutes, with an eleven that, with the exception of two players, has been typical throughout the season. Bologna, despite Naples’ unrelenting excitement, was unnerved. The team led by the Italian Thiago Motta started playing from the back, with the personality that characterizes him, and managed to come out cleanly from the left profile on several occasions.

But in one of the starting from the bottom, with Naples pressing, Bolognese goalkeeper Skorupski tried to filter a ball in the middle of the field with his bad leg. Pass dropped and appeared osimhen to block it and score the first in an empty goal.

The party followed the initial script. Napoli, yes, dropped the intensity on the pressure and made things easier for a Bologna who had chances in the first half but could not put the tie together. Meanwhile, Napoli continued to do their thing, playing with the calmness of a champion, even without losing its essence.

In the second half came what seemed like a crash verdict. Wait again. The Nigerian received a pass from behind inside the area, but let the ball run and tricked his pair into his body, thus opening up a key space for Skorupski to shoot and make it 0-2.

Kvartashelia tried to join his teammate’s scoring inertia with two shots from outside the area, the Georgian was always very active but could not find the goal he needed, as he had not scored since March 19. But it was Bologna who found double reward for their good play.

First in the 62nd minute with a goal from a Ferguson who took advantage of a Gollini rebound to close the gap. The game started to get complicated for Napoli as Bologna started to believe in a comeback. He had several clear-cut chances before De Silvestri signed the equalizer in the 84th minute with a header that sparked, even more, the end of a game that had been chaotic, with Bologna determined to go for the third.

He found it, in fact, on the last play, but the assistant raised the flag to call it off for offside. Thiago Motta’s team could not complete the complete comeback, remaining eleventh with 51 points, with almost no options to choose for an eighth place that could mean the Conference League if UEFA finally sanctions the Juventus.