The Campania team went behind (goal from Djuric in the 9th minute), then in the second half they scored three with the Nigerian, Politano and Zielinski (55′, 57′, 61′). Colpani reopens it, but Raspadori destroys Palladino’s team
A time for one, the match against Napoli. This is how the Monza match, won by the Italian champions 4-2, can be summed up. After Djuric’s goal in the first half, led by the Brianza team, 13 minutes between the 55th and 68th minutes were enough to turn the game around and seal the match. Osimhen, Raspadori, Zielinski (one more beautiful than the other) and Raspadori score. Colpani’s momentary 2-3, equally valuable, was useless and illusory.
Monza, start ok
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Monza returns to 3-4-2-1 with Mota Carvalho and Colpani behind Djuric and Zerbin (formerly on loan) on the left; Caldirola can be seen behind from the 1st minute. Napoli are the Scudetto winners apart from Ngonge who finds a place from the start in place of Politano. Very different air between the two curves. While the Napoli fans display a banner with the words “Absent like yours” and a drawing of testicles (the people of Campania do not sing and also leave the central part of the away section empty), at Monza there is a very different message . “Football does not belong to the sphere of business but of feelings like religion with its painful and joyful mysteries. And this is how we moved forward together, arriving in Serie A for the first time”: a phrase that links Silvio Berlusconi to Adriano Galliani since he bought Milan in 1986. The air is decidedly more serene in the Brianza house. And in the 10th minute Monza passes. Zerbin sinks to the left, cross to the center for Djuric who heads ahead of Juan Jesus and goes past Meret. In the 15th minute the Napoli ultras enter the corner. “Only the ultras always win” reads the new banner, chants against the players and a smoke bomb on the pitch. Meanwhile, on the pitch, Di Lorenzo wastes from inside the small area, but it is outside that the attention is attracted. First the chants “We’ll give them to you, ic… we’ll give them to you”, “De Laurentiis, we deserve more”, “We are for colours”, “Go to work”. At 27′ first substitution: Mota Carvalho out due to a blow to the right ankle and Maldini comes on. In the 40th minute Monza complicates their life with the build-up from below. Di Gregorio is attacked by Osimhen who manages to touch for Kvara, the Georgian with the “convenient” goal kicks but finds the Monza goalkeeper on his path, then Akpa Akpro clears for a corner. Only Monza seems to revitalize Napoli by missing some simple passes and not speeding up the build-up from the bottom. Because for the rest the Brianza people have control over the meeting in terms of times and methods. After a suspected Zerbin-Ngonge contact in the Monza area, Napoli tried with Kvara who hissed a right-foot shot from the edge that was just a little wide. Thus ends the first half, with the Neapolitan whistles swamping Calzona’s team.
Neapolitan recovery
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We start again without changes and with a new banner of the Neapolitan curve: “Present only for our colors”. In the 4th minute Napoli would equalize through Ngonge but the VAR cancels everything for offside. In the 9th minute the first changes for Monza: Bondo on for Akpa Akpro and Ciurria (after two months away from the pitch due to physical problems) for Zerbin. Calzona removes Ngonge and inserts Politano instead. In the 10th minute Napoli equalised: Anguissa’s cross and Osimhen’s header who flew into the sky with a monstrous rise ahead of Izzo. Di Gregorio can’t do anything, 1-1. Two minutes and the game is over. Overwhelming action by Napoli on the restart, the ball bounces on the edge of the area and Politano volleys it from a considerable height into the crossbar. A wonderful goal for the 2-1 of the Italian champions. It’s Napoli-spectacle: in the 16th minute Zielinski draws a perfect arc with his left foot which touches the crossbar and goes into the goal. In six minutes three spectacular goals and Calzona’s team found themselves ahead 3-1. But the game is wide open now. The ball goes to Monza who with Colpani attacks on the right, returns to the left in his classic movement and finds the goal with a slightly deflected curling shot. It’s 3-2 and we’re only at the 18th minute of the second half. One minute and Osimhen would have conceded the lead to make it 4-2, but Di Gregorio manages to stop his shot (and there are doubts about the Bondo-Anguissa contact). In the 24th minute Napoli scores the 4-2. Raspadori, with the first ball touched, puts it into the net after Gregorio’s rejection of Di Lorenzo’s shot. Devastating impact for Napoli’s number 81. Napoli feel light and in the 29th minute you can see it with Osimhen’s choice: Olivera’s spoon for the center forward who chooses the overhead kick from a tight position far from the goal. Spectacular, but not dangerous, Di Gregorio saves. In the 32nd minute further moves by Palladino. Inside Valentin Carboni and Kyriakopoulos for Gagliardini and Birindelli. All this leads Colpani to play the midfielder in front of the defense alongside Bondo. It ends 4-2 for Napoli who relaunch their ambition of finding a place in Europe. For Monza, however, second consecutive defeat.
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