Napoli lastly produced an explosive efficiency paying homage to their title from final season. Victor Osimhen scored a hat-trick and the struggling Serie A champions routed relegation-threatened Sassuolo 6-1 on Wednesday.
This primary victory below the management of latest coach Francesco Calzona permits Naples to stay in ninth place however to return to equal factors with Lazio (eighth) and to place itself again within the race for qualification for Europe.
Calzona, Napoli’s third coach this season, was employed final week to exchange Walter Mazzarri , who was fired, and has thus far produced attracts towards Barcelona within the Champions League and towards Cagliari in Serie A.
Third-placed Sassuolo prolonged their seven-match winless streak of their first match below the management of Emiliano Bigica , who changed the sacked Alessio Dionisi on Sunday .
In a match between two of the largest disappointments of the season, Sassuolo took the early benefit because of a objective from Uros Racic on a protracted, curved shot low to the bottom. Napoli defender Amir Rrahmani equalized after being served by Giovanni Di Lorenzo and André-Frank Zambo Anguissa .
Osimhen then took over by scoring three targets in 16 minutes.
Matteo Politano arrange Osimhen’s first two targets, permitting final season’s prime scorer to attain twice. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia then intercepted a cross from a Sassuolo defender and handed the ball to Osimhen for one more simple objective.
Kvaratskhelia obtained on the scoreboard himself, dribbling from the left wing and firing a exact shot via a crowd of defenders. The Georgian dribbler then scored once more by accumulating a rebound of his personal shot and sending one other lengthy shot.
Osimhen grew to become the third Napoli participant to attain at the very least 10 targets in 4 consecutive seasons, after Diego Maradona (1984-85 to 1987-88) and Attila Sallustro (1929-30 to 1932-33).
It was the second hat-trick in Italy for Osimhen, who has scored 5 targets in three matches in seven days since coming back from the Africa Cup of Nations , the place he helped Nigeria attain the ultimate.
Napoli journey to Barcelona for the second leg of their Champions League spherical of 16 tie on March 12.