In the championship match in Bergamo there is a centre-forward, Mateo Retegui, who scores immediately and the other, Romelu Lukaku, who is only seen at the end, just to find the goal that is worth the three points and send the opponents to minus seven . Retegui had been the last to score with the sides reversed as Atalanta won 3-0 for the fifth of a record run of eleven consecutive victories that would leave them alone at the top for three weeks in December. This time the Italian-Argentine’s feat provokes an angry reaction from Napoli who overturn the score thanks to Politano and McTominay in the first half. Without the double scorer Lookman’s 2-2 making up for much, because Lukaku, after being kept at bay very well by Hien, decides it for the league leaders in the 78th minute by heading home Anguissa’s cross from the back.
To open the score in favor of the locals, Di Lorenzo’s failed return to the center of the area following Ederson’s combination from the right with De Roon, favoring Retegui’s return to the ball who scored the 1-0 with a left-footed shot under the crossbar. First, chances between 12′ and 14′, by Politano widening along the Mc-Tominay-Di Lorenzo axis converging from the right, and Ederson taking up the Samardzic-Lookman action by shooting high. However, the home center forward’s left-footed scrum does not lead Conte’s team to go too far and, when after a falling left-footed shot from Bellanova in the 20th minute, Neres manages to surprise the Nerazzurri defense in the 23rd minute, De Roon is there to dampen his ball in the area into the arms of Carnesecchi. Who, however, can do nothing on Politano’s very powerful left foot at the opposite corner, author of a very quick cut on the ball from the left by the usual Neres.
Then the attempts from outside by Olivera and Lookman do not change the balance, who in the 33rd minute does not close well with the right-footed shot dictated by his teammate’s counterattack after a good advance in the air by Hien between Anguissa and McTominay. That is, the protagonists of the advantage in the 40th minute, when Ederson, direct opponent of the first, loses the ball again in favor of Neres along the lateral foul line favoring the ‘tow’ of the French-Cameroonian for the Scot who throws a powerful right-footed shot crosswise.
The second half starts with Retegui’s right-footed corner, caught by Samardzic towards the right of the area. However, the native finds Lookman who outpaces his opponents between one dribble and another to find the 2-2 with his left foot between Rrahmani’s legs. It’s the 10th minute, and after four minutes Meret has to defend the post from a possible counter-overtaking by Samardzic, fed by Lookman himself. De Ketelaere enters for Retegui, and immediately engages Meret by crushing the ball from Bellanova’s right in the 25th minute. Conte decides to cover himself on that side with Spinazzola in place of Neres; Gasperini responds role after role with Pasalic and Zaniolo for Samardzic and Lookman.
-We arrive at the decisive moment with Anguissa and Lukaku taking advantage of the Scalvini-Hien double “hole” with the Belgian header beating Carnesecchi who initially seemed intent on exiting. Hien gives Simeone, substitute for the match winner, the yellow card which will make him miss the away match against Como, curiously the only other team to violate the Gewiss Stadium, with the same score, 2-3, as this evening.
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