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Cyril Ngonge scored twice in an electrifying efficiency, as Napoli breezed into the Coppa Italia final 16 with a crushing 5-0 win over Serie B Palermo on Thursday.
Ngonge struck first within the seventh minute with a left-footed drive that bounced in entrance of Salvatore Sirigu earlier than squirming beneath his physique into the web, leaving the goalkeeper shaking his head in disbelief.
Sirigu was at fault once more 5 minutes later when Ngonge lashed one other left-footer from a tough angle, the ball flying throughout the face of the aim earlier than nestling within the facet netting to make it 2-0.
Palermo gave the hosts a scare as Matteo Brunori struck the publish 29 minutes in, however Napoli had been too large, too sturdy and too fast for his or her second-tier guests, with Juan Jesus nodding residence from a nook to make it 3-0 simply earlier than the break.
The guests’ hopes of a comeback had been shattered once they had been lowered to 10 males simply earlier than the hour mark. Aljosa Vasic was given a straight pink card for harmful play after catching Billy Gilmour within the face.
David Neres slotted residence the fourth within the seventieth minute, urgent to assist win the ball again earlier than coolly knocking into the web.
Scott McTominay then got here off the bench to attain together with his first contact, rifling residence a cross from fellow substitute Romelu Lukaku seven minutes later to finish the rout.
Full time: #NapoliPalermo 5-0
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— Official SSC Napoli (@sscnapoli) September 26, 2024
Knowledge Debrief: An ideal efficiency
Conte’s first sport in cost was within the first spherical of this competitors, and the Partenopei edged their approach by means of with a penalty shootout win over Modena.
It was a completely totally different efficiency this time round although. They’d 16 pictures, seven of which had been on course, accumulating simply 1.55 anticipated objectives.
Ngonge’s half was maybe probably the most spectacular – he scored with each of his pictures, with these probabilities equalling simply 0.09 xG, although he simply couldn’t snatch a hat-trick within the second half to spherical off a superb sport.
