He napoli wore eight straight league wins and thus suffers his second setback in the 2022-2023 championship, although he still retains a huge advantage in the standings: has 17 more points that the team that is currently second, precisely lazio.
The team from the capital, for its part, is ahead of Inter (3rd) and at AC Milan (4th) by one point. Inter host Lecce on Sunday and Milan play in Florence against Fiorentina on Saturday.
The only goal of the match at the Diego Maradona stadium was scored by the Uruguayan Matías Vecinoin minute 67, with a shot at the entrance to the area.
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Those from Naples came close to equalizing in the 79th minute, when the Nigerian attacker Victor Osimhen, in a header, crashed the ball into the crossbar. Osimhen did not score on this occasion but remains at the top of the Serie A scoring charts with 19 goals, ahead of Inter’s Argentine Lautaro Martínez (13).
In the final discount, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic was close to expanding Lazio’s account, in a free-kick shot that Alex Meret saved (90+1′).
At the weekend, among other proposals, highlights the pulse of Sunday between the Rome (5th) and the Juventus (7th).
The latter continues to try to climb positions in the table after the 15 point penalty suffered in January, which left him out of action in the race for the ‘Scudetto’.
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