The Napoli of the Mexican Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano lost a great opportunity to stay in the fight for the Serie A, by drawing 1 goal against the Roma, who also jeopardize their chances in the fight for a place in the next UEFA Champions League.
Quickly the team from southern Italy left to look for the commitment with great intensity knowing that they had no margin of error for this game. Just at minute 9 ′, the Mexican Lozano attacked from the right wing and when he entered the large area he was knocked down at the moment of sending the center, although the referee let the play continue.
Seconds later, the play itself had to be reviewed in the VAR and in this way the penalty was awarded so that Lorenzo Insige was in charge of opening the scoring in the Diego Armando Maradona.
For the first half, the enthusiasm of the local fans seemed to be on the surface with the people in the stands of the stadium giving every show of support when the Napoli dominated with the ball. However, for the second half, things changed radically and ‘La Loba’ began to warn the Neapolitan goal of what would happen in the following minutes.
Although the performance of Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano was positive, where he won several duels and caused the penalty to open the scoring, he had to be substituted after a minute 69′ for receiving a yellow card that caused a fight with the rivals.
With his departure, the Napoli gave way and caused Henrik Mhhitaryan together with Carles Pérez gave the change that Roma needed to seek compromise. Although the protagonist of the tie at the last minute was Stephan El Shaarawy, the Romans take a tie that keeps them in fifth position in the table.
Napoli loses ground in their aspirations to seek the title in the Italian Serie A and remains fixed in third position with 67 units, while Inter has 69, but two games less and 71 than they have the leaders, the AC Milan.
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