Article by Dragoș Petrescu – published on Saturday, 03 May 2025, 22:08 / Updated on Saturday, 03 May 2025 22:08
Naples won to the limit on the land of those at LECCEscore 1-0, in a duel of the round with number 35 in Serie A, thus continuing the road to the fourth title in the club history.
The program of stage #35 of the Serie A
“I Ciucciarelli” took an important new step in the fight for winning “Scudetto”, after the 14th victory for a single goal this season.
Raspadori brought Napoli the three points
Conte's students started as a cannon on Stadio Via Del Mare, and after only two minutes from the Start whistle of the Davide Massa power station, Romelu Lukaku managed to score, but the Belgian goal was canceled for offside.
In the 24th minute, however, Napoli's other striker, Giacomo Raspadori, opened the free kick scoring, with an execution at which Falcone failed to intervene.
Gradually, as they used to us in this season, especially in the duels on the foreign land, the Napoletians withdrew, defending the minimum advantage and trying to hit the counterattack.
Marco Giampaolo's formation tried to score the equalizing goal, but without lots of success, as did the guests, and thus, Napoli left LECCE with all three points.
As a result of this result, Antonio Conte's band accumulated 77 points and distanced itself at the head of the ranking in Italy. At this moment, the Napoletans have an advance of six lengths compared to the Inter champion, but also an extra match.
On the other hand, “Salentini” remained in the 17th place in the standings, the last above the red line, with 27 points, but I can go down 18 if Empoli will win the duel with Lazio.
In the next stage of Serie A, Napoli will receive the visit of Genoa, Dan Șucu's team, while LECCE will play on the field of Verona.
Series A series A:
LECCE – NAPOLI »Start teams:
LECCE (4-2-3-1): Falcone – Guilbert, Gaspar, Baschirotto, Gallo – Pierret, Kaba – Pierootti, Coulobaly, Karlsson – Krstovic
reserves: Fruff, Samooja – Banda, Berisha, Helgason, Ndri, Rafia, Ramadani, Rebic, Hall, Sansone, Tete, Tiago, Vega
Coach: Marco Giampaolo
Naples (4-4-2): Meret – di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Olivera, Spinazzola – Poltano, Anguissa, Lobotka, Mctminay – Raspadori, Lukaku
reserves: Contini, Scuffet – Billing, Gilmour, Hasa, Marin, Mazzocchi, Nongge, Okafor, Simeone
Coach: Antonio Conte
Stadium: Stadio via del Mare (lecce)
Referee: Davide Massa
