Perfect free kick by Insigne, who kicks around the barrier and brings the Azzurri to the advantage in the 24th
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46′ – Let’s start once again! Fonseca also loses Veretout through injury, inside Villar.
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Ore 21.35: at the San Paolo, after the first 45 ‘, he decides a goal from Insigne on a free kick. Foul by Ibanez, Lorenzinho the square around the barrier. Special dedication to him, a true Neapolitan: kiss to the 10 of Maradona.
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42′ – Another chance for Napoli! This time with Mertens, who places it with his right hand but finds Mirante’s excellent response with his left hand.
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37′ – First change for Roma. Mancini gets hurt inside Juan Jesus.
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35′ – Lozano close to doubling. Insidious left from the edge, ball deflected in a corner kick.
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Perfect free kick by Insigne, who kicks around the barrier and gives the Azzurri the advantage. The dedication, then, is special: the winger goes to the bench and shows Maradona’s number 10 shirt in front of the cameras.
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28′ – First yellow of the match: Ibanez yellow card and free kick for the Azzurri from a good position.
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19′ – Another opportunity for Napoli. Mario Rui recovers the ball in midfield and serves Insigne. The winger looks for and finds Zielinski, who weakly kicks Mirante from a good position.
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12′ – After Pedro, Mertens tries, but the shot from 20 meters from a tight angle on the right side is very wide.
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10′ – All stop. At minute 10, Diego’s number, the teams stop to applaud and interrupt the game.
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7′ – Mkhitaryan flies on the wing but is in an offside position.
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3′ – First chance for the Giallorossi. Pedro controls and kicks with his right foot from the edge, but the ball goes high.
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1′ – Go! Naples-Rome has begun. And after the minute of silence for Diego Maradona right in his stadium.
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Ore 20.25: teams on the pitch for the warm-up. Before entering the pitch, Lorenzo Insigne wore a wreath of flowers under the giant picture of Maradona in the curve. The players entered the field with a special jersey for the Argentine diez.
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19.55: the Napoli officials
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4-2-3-1. Meret; Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Fabian Ruiz, Demme; Lozano, Zielinski, Insigne; Mertens. All: Gattuso.
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19.55: the Roma officials
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3-4-2-1. Mirante; Mancini, Cristante, Ibanez; Karsdorp, Lo. Pellegrini, Veretout, Spinazzola; Pedro, Mkhitaryan, Dzeko. All: Fonseca.
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Ore 19.45: outside the San Paolo the fans’ homage to Diego Maradona continues. Inside the stadium, on the other hand, a banner of the fans in the curve: “Your disappearance, a blow to the chest, a pain in the heart. Naples swears eternal love”.
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How they arrive
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First Rijeka and now Roma. Napoli returns to San Paolo again after the death of Diego Maradona, idol and flag of the city. Bruno Conti, reference point of the Giallorossi, he honored the Diez to the Spanish neighborhoods with a wreath of flowers and a prayer, moving in front of the mural dedicated to the Argentine. At 20.45 the two teams will take the field. Gattuso, without the injured Osimhen, will play with Mertens as central striker, while in the Giallorossi the owner Dzeko in front of Pedro and Mkhitaryan.
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Statistics and precedents
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The previous Serie A matches between Napoli and Rome are 146: 44 victories for the Azzurri, 50 draws, 52 wins for the Giallorossi. The team coached by Gattuso (sixth at 14 points) is fresh from the defeat against Milan, while Roma (third with 17 points) beat Parma at the Olimpico. Napoli have won four of their last seven Serie A matches against Roma (1N, 2P), only one less success than in the previous 23 matches (6N, 12P) – since 2016/17 against no team the Giallorossi have lost more league games (four). Bomber chapter: Mertens has scored 5 goals in the last 7 A games against Roma. Dzeko, on the other hand, scored two braces against Napoli in Serie A.
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