A league: Udinese-Naples 1-0 DIRECT
END OF THE FIRST HALF Udinese took the lead thanks to a shot under Lovric’s cross. Napoli starts aggressively, but never manages to make themselves truly dangerous, Udinese with counterattacks and ideas from the flanks instead finds the goal in one of the few lunges. Neapolitans in control of ball possession, but it will be necessary to find other solutions to undermine the defense of the Friulians.
32′ Cross from the trocar, Osimhen hits the head looking for the second post. He ball just to Silvestri’s left.
28′ Napoli are back in control of the game with a continuous phrasing on the Udinese trocar.
20′ After the twentieth minuteafter a good start for Napoli it is the home team, at their first real lunge, who have found the opening goal.
13′ GOAL! UDINESE – Naples 1-0! Lovric’s network. Udogie from the left wing caught Lovric in the area, shot around the cross and ball into the net.
One point is enough for Napoli, just one point to crown the Scudetto dream. The first match point last weekend didn’t go well, 1-1 against Salernitana. This time the opponent will be an Udinese who is back from the 1-0 defeat in Lecce.
The formations
UDINESE (3-5-1-1): Silvestri – Becao, Bijol, Perez – Ehizibue, Samardzic, Walace, Lovric, Udogie – Pereyra – Nestorovski. Subs: Padelli, Piana, Festy, Masina, Arslan, Zeegelaar, Abankwah, Buta, Thauvin, Semedo, Guessand.
NAPLES (4-3-3): Meret – Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Kim, Olivera – Anguissa, Lobotka, Ndombele – Elmas, Osimhen, Kvaratskhelia. Subs: Gollini, Marfella, Demme, Juan Jesus, Lozano, Simeone, Bereszynski, Zielinski, Zerbin, Zedadka, Ostigard, Gaetano, Raspadori.
Scudetto Napoli, fans waiting
The entire Dacia Arena paid homage, before the start of the Udinese-Naples race, to the Air Force captain, Alessio Ghersi, 34, who died last Saturday in a plane crash with his ultralight aircraft in the Lusevera area (Udine) in which a relative also died. The speaker of the stadium recalled the figure of the pilot captain of the Frecce Tricolori – who have their base of operations in Rivolto (Udine) – and the 25,000 spectators gave him a very long applause. It was the only moment in which all the fans – the black and white ones and the blue ones – united. In fact, in the pre-match, the supporters of the two teams made fun of each other with chants and whistles. The stadium is practically almost all blue, with the exception of the Curva Nord, occupied by the black and white fans and part of the Distinti.
A city already all blue, already ready to party for the Scudetto that Napoli would win tonight by making at least one point in Udine. A city that awaits with over 50,000 fans who are walking to the all-blue Maradona stadium, even in the sector usually reserved for guests. In the facility, the ten giant screens on the athletics track in front of the various sectors of the facility, completely exhausted, which is already crowded, are already functioning. The match is also broadcast on the two fixed Maradona maxi screens hanging in the upper part of the side stands, while the entire field is covered by a large blue flag with the club’s symbol in the center and the side writing ‘Naples 4 May 2023’, image drone shot of club from above for scrapbook. Flags are waving in the stadium while outside the ultras are already rehearsing the party by gathering in the streets around the stadium, with large blue flags and smoke bombs that have already invaded the neighborhood; fans are on the streets throughout the city, from Piazza Plebiscito to the Lungomare, from Sanità to via Toledo. All the fans arriving at the stadium dressed in blue, all with this year’s shirts, from adults to kids with the shirts of Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia, Di Lorenzo and Zielinski, but many have decided to dress in Maradona’s shirt. The history of this club in recent years is not lacking on the shoulders of the Neapolitans, with the shirts of Hamsik and Lavezzi and Cavani, all pulled out of the closet to remember the beautiful moments in which the Scudetto was dreamed of in the De Laurentiis era, which took the club relegated to Serie C and in 17 years brought it back to the top. The blue president chose today not to go to Udine with the team but to stay in Naples, to enjoy the evening with the Neapolitans at the Maradona stadium, in a new partnership between the club and the ultras that works.
Scudetto Napoli: chants, flags and smoke bombs outside the Maradona stadium
Source: Ansa
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