Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano returned to the courts with after overcoming COVID-19 and was called up for the match between Napoli and Fiorentina, corresponding to the round of 16 of the Coppa Italia, where he left a very bad image after being expelled from the match .
Lozano, who entered the minute 64′ of the match to try to overcome the adverse score from 2 to 1 to the moment, he committed a foul on the Argentine player of Fiorentina, Nico González, at the minute 82′ of match. The iron that the Mexican gave to the rival player caused the main referee to admonish the Mexican player.
However, from the VAR they called the main referee to review the play and then make a decision. Lozano, who had only received a yellow card, ended up reversing the decision and the whistler showed the red card, leaving Napoli with 10 players.
Minutes later, Fabián Ruiz, a teammate of Hirving Lozano, was also expelled from the Neapolitan team where they were left with nine players and Fiorentina ended up winning by 5 goals for 2. However, the purple team was also left with one less player , after the expulsion of the guard Bartlomiej Dragowski for committing a foul outside the area on a Neapolitan player.