Serie A, Napoli-Lazio 3-1: Champions alarm for Insigne, biancocelesti quarters with Immobile record | News

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THE MATCH
A goal that is worth the record, but which is accompanied by a painful knockout and a bad defeat. Thus ends the championship of the Golden Shoe Ciro Immobile and his Lazio, fourth after losing to San Paolo against a Naples already focused on the dream challenge with the Barcellona in Champions League. More Lazio in the start, but after nine minutes Gattuso ‘s team continues with a pearl of Fabian Ruiz. Served by Mertens, the Spaniard Strakosha (positioned too far forward) with a left from outside, slightly deflected. Three minutes later the Neapolitans almost doubled with Insigne on the developments of advanced pressing.

The advantage lasts less than a quarter of an hour: at 22 ‘comes the parity of the biancocelesti and the consecration of Ciro Immobile. Parolo perfectly opens Marusic’s run, who from the left rewards his partner’s cut inside the area. The Neapolitan striker does not fail and equals (moreover in the usual goal) the record of 36 goals scored by Higuain with the Napoli shirt four years ago. It also achieves a very personal record: 17 away goals in a single league. Nobody had ever done it.

The blue presence in the midfield of the opponents is constant both at the end of the first half and at the start of the second half. The second fraction opens in fact with a right to round (central) of Insigne. Unlike the top 45, however, Napoli manages the phrasing while Lazio remains lower. The dominance materializes on 53 ‘with a penalty conquered by Mertens, who after kicking is knocked down by Parolo, definitely out of time. Kick Badge and scores 2-1. The fine word, in the minutes of recovery, writes it Politano. In the middle a lot of nervousness: first in the 70th minute when a foul by Manolas on Correa ignites Inzaghi and Gattuso (yellow for both) and then in the final when the brawl is touched twice on the sideline. Napoli, already seventh, had no particular ranking ambitions and will begin to prepare for the return of the Champions League round of 16 (1-1 in the first leg) with Barcelona, ​​even if they will have to deal with the injury to the adductor of Badge, came out in tears at 85 ‘. Lazio lick their wounds for missing third place.

The report cards

Badge 7 – From his side all the dangerous actions of Napoli are born. Puts the seal on the dominance of the team between the first and second fraction by realizing the penalty.

Mertens 6,5 – Two assists for goals that open and close the San Paolo match

Manolas 5,5 – Not an evening for the Greek central to remember, but what matters is that his team holds the advantage tightly

Immobile 7 – A few kilometers from where he was born he scored one of the most important goals of his career and ended a fantastic season with the title of top scorer and the golden shoe

Marusic 6 – Most of Lazio’s dangerous actions arrive on its wing. It takes an assist to Immobile and in the final touches the header.

Word 5 – His wriggle propitiates Immobile’s first goal, but the delayed intervention on Mertens causes the penalty that ultimately determines the result and the final ranking position.

THE TABLE
NAPLES-LAZIO 3-1
Naples (4-3-3): Ospina 6; Di Lorenzo 6, Manolas 5.5, Koulibaly 6, Mario Rui 5.5 (from 33 ‘Ghoulam 5.5) 6; Fabian Ruiz 7, Lobotka 6 (from 33 ‘st Demme 6), Zielinski 5.5 (from 40’ st Politano sv); Callejon 5.5 (from 33 ‘st Lozano 5.5), Mertens 6.5, Insigne 7 (from 40’ st Elmas sv). Available: Karnezis, Luperto, Maksimovic, Hysaj, Allan, Amin, Milik. Att .: Gattuso 6.5
Lazio (3-5-2): Strakosha 5; Patric 5.5 (from 17 ‘st Vavro 6), L. Felipe 5.5, Acerbi 6 (from 17’ st Bastos 5.5); Lazzari 5.5; Luis Alberto 6, Word 5 (from 42 ‘st André Anderson sv), Milinkovic-Savic 5,5, Marusic 6; Correa 6 (from 42 ‘st Adekanye sv), Building 7. Available: Guerrieri, Proto, Lukaku, Djavan Anderson, Armini, Caicedo, Jony, Cataldi. All .: Inzaghi 5.5
Referee: Calvarese
Scorers: 9 ‘Ruiz (N), 22’ Building (L), 8 ‘st Insigne (N), 47’ st Politano (N)
Booked: Koulibaly (N), Mario Rui (N), Immobile (L), Elmas (N), Milinkovic-Savic, Gattuso (N), Inzaghi (L)

THE STATISTICS

Ciro Immobile with 36 goals equaled the record of goals in a single Serie A season by Gonzalo Higuaín, established at San Paolo on the last day of the 2015/16 championship.

Ciro Immobile set the record of away goals in a single season in the history of Serie A (17).

Ciro Immobile has become the sixth player capable of scoring at least 36 goals in a single top-5 European championship in the new millennium, together with Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuain, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.

Lazio is the team that has scored the most points in a single season in the history of Serie A (78) without managing to finish the championship in the top three positions in the standings – excluding penalties.

Napoli have scored at least two goals in all their last nine home league games: the only time they did better in a single Serie A season was in 1987/88 (10).

Napoli have won six of their last eight games at San Paolo against Lazio in Serie A (1N, 1P), scoring 3 goals per game on average in the period.

Lazio lost all five games played with Simone Inzaghi on the bench on the last day of the championship, conceding an average of 3.2 goals per game.

Napoli have collected five wins at San Paolo since the resumption of Serie A, as many as in the rest of the championship at home.

Lorenzo Insigne boasts five goals from the spot, among the players of this league who have transformed all the penalties kicked, only Lukaku counts more (six).

Lorenzo Insigne scored five of his eight goals this season from the penalty spot, but he scored so many 11m goals for him in a single Serie A season.

Fabián Ruiz has made three home goals in Serie A, all of which arrived in Napoli’s last home game in a championship: two goals against Inter in 2018/19, goals against Lazio in 2019/20.

Matteo Politano scored in two of Napoli’s last three games at San Paolo in Serie A, in both cases beyond the 90th minute.

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