Champions, Napoli unstoppable: Rangers overwhelmed with a brace from super Simeone and seal from Ostigard

Napoli takes home the twelfth consecutive victory, retains the lead in the Champions League group and collects records. He has scored 20 goals, an average of four per game, in the five major European leagues alone Paris Saint Germain unbeaten like Napoli both in their national tournament and in Europe.

At Maradona, filled with forty thousand, the same result of the first leg is repeated, ending 3-0. Still not enough for the arithmetic certainty of first place, at Anfield on November 1st we must avoid the goleada. Liverpool will have to win by more than three goals to overtake Napoli and take the lead in Group A.

The interpreters change but Napoli’s goal is the same: to take full possession of the opposing half and dominate the field. The strategy can change, today Spalletti presented a different formation for five men with different characteristics. The movements of Raspadoriwhich comes inside the field to suggest the lines of passage with a different interpretation than Kvaratskheliathe manifesto of a chameleonic team that knows how to completely change its outfit.

The match

Napoli takes eleven minutes to go to the advantage

, Di Lorenzo reads a space for Cholito who without even looking at the opposing goalkeeper puts it diagonally on the opposite corner. Five minutes pass and the doubling arrives, the axis is consolidated Mario Rui-Simeone, thus was born the third assist of the Portuguese winger for Cholito. the dynamic that gave Simeone’s decisive goals against Milan and Cremonese, once again it works, so the Argentine striker scores his sixth goal of the season, his fourth in the Champions League. Napoli risks little and creates a lot, in the 22nd minute the 3-0 goal could also arrive, the action is still born on the right chain, Ndombele unleashes a great shot that is printed on the crossbar. The Azzurri try in various situations for the header of Raspadori on the second post, at 39 ‘his execution, however, ends up in the arms of McGregor. Napoli risks only at 45 ‘, Glasgow Rangers starts again after a lost ball from Lobotka, Morelos he flies off the counter, his shot is deflected by Meret in corner kick.

In the second half, Spalletti’s team continues to dominate the gameat 51 ‘ Ndombele invents a wonderful assist from the outside for Simeone which this time, however, not lethal as in the first half. He appears undecided between the assist Elmas and the shot, when he tries the conclusion finds the parry of McGregor. Napoli lowers the pace and risks something more, on a turn of Morelos think about it Mario Rui to make a wall, then Sakala does not arrive on a cross from the left. Raspadori in the 65th minute, however, he missed the 3-0 goal with a shot that ended just above the crossbar.

Spalletti inserts Lozano and Gaetano, Napoli returns to grind opportunities, Mario Rui is close to scoring, McGregor intervenes on the near post. The 3-0 goal arrives, Ostigard detaches on the corner kicked by Raspadori.

Napoli’s 100th goal in the European Cup / Champions Leaguethe sixteenth different scorer this season, the eleventh in the Champions League. the cooperative of goals, of collective happiness which distributed for all members of the squad. Gaetano goes to play the play in place of Lobotka, Zanoli and Zerbin enter for Di Lorenzo and Raspadori, as well as Zielinski. In the final there is also room for another goal-ball, Simeone, however, this time he kicks to the side from a good position. Saturday the show continues in the league, with Sassuolo.

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