Napoli’s hopes of securing the Serie A title on Sunday have been placed on ice after being held to a 0-0 draw at Parma.
Inter drew 2-2 with Lazio, leaving the title race to be selected the ultimate day of the season subsequent weekend, with Napoli solely needing to match Inter’s outcome with the intention to clinch the Scudetto as they at present maintain a one-point benefit.
Whereas Alex Meret needed to make a pointy save to maintain out Simon Sohm, Napoli responded brilliantly as Frank Anguissa volleyed a strong effort off the bottom of the suitable publish.
Sohm induced extra issues for Meret, who made one other fantastic fingertip cease, shortly after the restart, earlier than Napoli upped the stress as soon as extra.
Matteo Politano virtually caught Zion Suzuki out as his cross smacked the bar, earlier than Scott McTominay noticed a curling free-kick fantastically tipped onto the objective body by the goalkeeper within the seventieth minute.
Chivu and Antonio Conte have been then each despatched off at the beginning of stoppage time for dissent, to begin the drama. Essentially the most thrilling second got here deep in stoppage time as David Neres was introduced down by Mathias Lovik, with the referee initially awarding a penalty earlier than it was overturned following a prolonged VAR evaluate.
Napoli will host Cagliari whereas Inter will journey to in-form Como within the title-deciding remaining spherical subsequent Sunday.
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Knowledge Debrief: An opportunity missed
With Inter additionally drawing, this might have been the match that steered the Scudetto race in Napoli’s favour, however as an alternative, they faltered on the street as soon as extra.
Napoli have gained simply two of their final eight away video games in Serie A (D5 L1), after 5 consecutive away wins beforehand.
They usually actually had their probabilities to win it. They hit the woodwork thrice on Sunday, the primary time they’ve achieved so since April 2019 at Frosinone (a 2-0 win).
Total, they created simply 0.38 anticipated targets (xG), managing to get solely two of their seven photographs on the right track.
