Petanja overthrew Sampdoria, the mighty Atalanta in Udine

The Napoli players justified their role as favorites and celebrated at home against Sampodria 1: 0 in match 21. round Serie A.

Napoli took the lead in the 35th minute with a goal by Juan Jesus . It was a great jump after a great cross by Mateo Politano, who replaced the injured Lorenzo Insigne just a few minutes later.

However, the goal was annulled after checking the VAR technology due to suspicion of possible offside. Big disappointment for the Neapolitans.

In the 40th minute, Politano tried, but his shot ended almost near the goal.

Only three minutes later Napoli took the lead. The scorer was Andrea Petanja scoring an extraordinary goal after he himself as a ghost received the ball in the penalty area of ​​the guests.

Previously, Dris Mertens requested a penalty, but the referee did not react in the same attack in which Petanja scored a goal.

In the continuation of the match, the guests from Genoa made a double change, and the home team had the first opportunity in the continuation in the 55th minute when Mertens was almost short on Elif Elmas’ cross.

Napoli was in the continuation. closer to the second goal than Sampdoria in the equalizer, but the result did not change until the end of the match, so the points remained in Naples.

Atalanta players convincingly celebrated on the road Udinese 6: 2 and thus kept two points behind third-placed Napoli.

(Atalanta already took the lead at halftime away to Udinese 3: 0) . Already in the 17th minute Mario Pašalić brought the guests from Bergamo into the lead, and only five minutes later ) Luis Muriel increased the advantage to two goals in excess after a great solo actions.

The extraordinary first 45 minutes for “Goddess” were crowned by Ruslan Malinovski two minutes before the break with a nice goal after the ball was rejected and thus left the second half as a mere formality.

Udinese fought back in the 59th minute when Nauel Molina sent the ball into the net with the help of one of the opposing players.

There was no dilemma regarding the winner, as in the 76th minute Muriel scored for 4: 1 , but Udinese reached the second goal thanks to Beta in the 88th minute.

The second goal in their net seemed to anger the Atalanta players, so by the end of the match they scored two more goals – the scorers were Joakim Mele in the 89th minute and Mateo Pesina in the second minute of overtime.

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