Napoli’s midfielder Scott McTominay (2-L) and his teammates have fun the 2-1 purpose in the course of the Italian Serie A soccer match SSC Napoli vs Como 1907 at Diego Armando Maradona stadium in Naples, Italy, 04 October 2024. EPA-EFE/CESARE ABBATE
Napoli prolonged their lead on the prime of the Serie A desk after recording an encouraging 3-1 victory over Como, to make it 5 wins from and a draw from their final six league matches.
See the way it all unfolded on the Soccer Italia liveblog.
Napoli got here into the sport sitting on the prime of the Serie A desk after six video games. Como had been in tenth after choosing up back-to-back 3-2 wins over Atalanta and Hellas Verona during the last two weeks.
After wins of their final matches, neither Antonio Conte nor Cesc Fabregas determined to make any modifications to their beginning line-ups.
It took simply 25 seconds for McTominay to open the scoring. He acquired the ball off Romelu Lukaku, took a contact to hold the ball into the world, after which dispatched in off the left publish for a really early lead.
From there although, Como loved the higher probabilities of the primary half. Nico Paz was essentially the most threatening participant on the pitch and got here shut on numerous events, together with one off the publish from 25 yards after 33 minutes.
The guests deservingly bought themselves an equaliser moments earlier than the half-time interval, Strefezza managed to squeeze on by Alessandro Buongiorno’s legs on the sting of the world, which fooled Elia Caprile and ended up within the far nook.
Napoli went again forward 5 minutes into the second half, as Matias Olivera gained a penalty after an alternate with Lukaku simply contained in the Como penalty space. The Belgian stepped as much as take it and dispatched straight down the center and previous Audero for 2-1.
Conte’s half-time team-talk appeared to have labored a deal with, as Como had been largely nullified within the second half, regardless of a promising opening 45.
Kvaratskhelia had two liung-busting runs down the left-flank with quarter-hour to go, however his first effort resulted in a routine save for Audero, whereas the opposite ended with an unsuccessful free-kick.
Napoli sealed their victory 4 minutes earlier than the top of the 90. One other positive little bit of hold-up play from Lukaku led to David Neres being despatched by one-on-one with Audero. The Brazilian made no mistake and located the underside nook from 12 yards out.
Napoli will end the weekend on the prime of the Serie A desk for a second week in a row, as they at the moment have a four-point benefit over Juventus in second.
Full-time: Napoli 2-1 Como
McTominay (N) 1’, Strefezza (C) 43’, Lukaku (N) (p) 53’, Neres (N) 86’.
