Napoli overturned Juventus Turin (2-1) this Saturday and continues a seventh consecutive victory. The Antonio Conte club is guaranteed to keep its place as a leader of the Italian championship at the end of the day.
Naples is in seventh heaven: the leader of the Italian championship chained on Saturday a seventh victory in a row (2-1) against Juventus Turin, who had nevertheless taken the advantage thanks to his Randal Kolo Muani recruit, during the 22nd day of the Italian Championship. It only took six balloons to Kolo Muani to open his counter in Serie A: three days after the formalization of his loan by PSG after a long administrative setback, the French international hit his first opportunity to go . Taking advantage of two bad dismissals of the Neapolitan defense, “RKM”, the last appearance of which dates back to December 6, cheated on Alex Meret with a pivot volley (43). The unhappy hero of the final of the 2022 World Cup lost against Argentina, preferred by Thiago Motta to Dusan Vlahovic, materialized the domination of his new team which could have taken the advantage from the 5th minute without a reflex stop of Meret ahead of Kenan Yildiz. The locker rooms of the Diego-Armando-Maradona stadium had to hear beautiful on the break and Antonio Conte, opposed to the club where he collected titles as a player (1991-2004) then as a coach (2011-14), found the Words to relaunch your team. Napoli has returned transfigured and has not allowed Juve to breathe. The leader equalized in the 57th minute on a head of Zambo Anguissa, his fourth goal in just over a month.
A first supported place
More aggressive, firing Juve in its half of the field, Naples took the advantage on a penalty transformed by Romelu Lukaku, after a gross Piedmontese fault in the surface on Scott MCTOMINAY (69). The entry of Vlahovic, which replaced Kolo Muani in the 82nd minute, had no impact for a Juve, technically dominated and exceeded by the physical impact of Napoli. Thanks to this 17th victory, Naples consolidated his first place with 53 points, six points more than the Inter who played two games less, before facing Lecce on Sunday. Juve, it conceded its first defeat of the championship season and now accuses sixteen points behind the head (5th, 37 pts). Earlier in the day, Atalanta returned to victory after a month without success by overcoming the promoted Côme (2-1) thanks to a double from the top scorer of the Mateo Retagui championship. The Bergamo club remains 3rd, but has come back temporarily to an Inter point.
