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Giacomo Raspadori is proving to be a greater than sufficient alternative for Victor Osimhen as he helped Napoli to a 20 win at backside membership Salernitana in Serie A on Saturday.
MILAN: Giacomo Raspadori is proving to be a greater than sufficient alternative for Victor Osimhen as he helped Napoli to a 2-0 win at backside membership Salernitana in Serie A on Saturday.
The 23-yr-outdated Raspadori opened the scoring within the thirteenth minute and substitute Elif Elmas sealed the end result late on to ship the defending champion fourth forward of league chief Inter Milan’s match at fifth-place Atalanta.
Third-place AC Milan was three factors behind Inter and enjoying at residence to Udinese later.
It was the primary time Raspadori had scored in three straight matches for Napoli.
Napoli, which had fought again from two objectives down to attract 2-2 in opposition to Milan final weekend, was nonetheless with out injured ahead Osimhen.
It took the lead in considerably controversial circumstances. Salernitana tried to play the ball out from the again however Stanislav Lobotka gained it again and threaded it by means of to Raspadori to fireplace into the far facet of the online.
Coach Filippo Inzaghi and his gamers have been livid after there had been an offside within the buildup, however the video assistant referee couldn’t intervene as Salernitana had gained the ball again after that earlier than dropping it once more, that means it was a distinct part of the sport.
Raspadori virtually doubled his tally on the stroke of halftime, with Salernitana goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa pulling off a improbable save to fingertip his effort around the publish.
Ochoa made one other good save firstly of the second half and Matteo Politano additionally clipped the surface of the left publish.
Napoli lastly doubled its tally with eight minutes remaining. Elmas feinted previous Mamadou Coulibaly on the left facet of the realm earlier than curling into the far backside nook.
Salernitana, which thrashed Sampdoria 4-0 within the Italian Cup on Tuesday, remained and not using a win in Serie A.
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