The Nigerian striker was nowhere close to his scientific finest because the Parthenpeans’ poor run continues

Napoli stumbled to a goalless draw at Bologna with star ahead Victor Osimhen lacking the largest likelihood of the Serie A matchday 5 encounter, Soccernet.ng stories.

Having received none of their final two league video games, Napoli went to the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara in Bologna with ambitions of claiming all three factors at stake.

The reigning Serie A champions, nonetheless, met stiff resistance from their hosts, who battled exhausting to earn a share of the spoils.

Napoli had the largest likelihood to interrupt the impasse within the 72nd minute after referee Giovanni Ayroldi awarded Rudi Garcia’s males a penalty. VAR noticed that Riccardo Calafiori dealt with the ball within the penalty field.

Osimhen stepped as much as take the spot kick, however the Tremendous Eagles striker despatched the ball huge astray to the delight of the house followers.

The penalty miss highlighted Osimhen’s struggles within the encounter as he missed two large probabilities, struck the woodwork, received simply one in every of his seven duels, and had two pictures on track.

By the point the 24-year-old ahead was changed within the 86th minute, he had the bottom Sofascore rating of any participant on the pitch at 5.6 – the bottom he has managed this time period.

Apparently, Osimhen, who was Serie A’s prime goalscorer with 26 targets final season, has not scored in any of his final 4 video games for Napoli in all competitions.

The previous Lille lad final discovered the again of the online for Napoli in a 2-0 win over Sassuolo on August 27. Il Partenopei haven’t recorded one other league victory since.

With the draw, eight-placed Napoli have misplaced important floor on Serie A leaders Inter Milan and AC Milan. 

Rudi Garcia’s males have eight factors from 5 video games and are seven behind Inter and 4 behind Milan. Juventus in fourth place have ten factors.