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by Gianluca Luceri 21 January 2020 Napoli forgets the 'pains' of the championship for one night and gives the Italian Cup semifinal: at San Paolo, in the match in the single game of the quarterfinals, beaten and eliminated Lazio (1-0), who came from an incredible streak of 12 consecutive victories (11 in Serie A and one in the Italian Super Cup). Gattuso's team now awaits the winner of Inter-Fiorentina.

Chaos and emotions in a first half hour of fire, where everything and more happens. Minute 2: Insigne receives the ball on the left, enters the area by jumping at speed Luiz Felipe and hits the center with a crossed plate. Minute 10: Ospina rejects Milinkovic's shot, the ball ends in Caicedo who hits the head but undergoes Hysaj's high-leg surgery (yellow card). For Massa it is penalty, from the spot the bomber Immobile goes, but at the moment of the shot he slips sensationally and sends high. At the wheel (14 ') the biancoceleste forward, very central in the area, tries to head on a cross (a bit slow) from Lazzari: ball to the side. The atmosphere, already tense after the penalty for the guests, becomes hot in the 19 ', with the referee warning the Abanese Hysaj for the second time (foul on Immobile) and expels him. Six rounds of hands and the numerical parity is restored: Lucas Leiva stops (regularly) the percussion of Zielinski, Massa draws the yellow, the Brazilian does not fit, sends him to that country and remedies the red (25 '). The match 'subsides' in the last quarter of an hour, where not much happens.

The first attempt of the recovery is still from Immobile (51 '): Ospina present. At 62 'the tip of Lazio bags right but there is offside: just the cancellation. Very active, with Napoli too crushed behind, even the newly entered Correa: the blow from the Argentine is slightly high (65 '). Blink of the blues at 70 ', very close to doubling: the head of Milik is mockingly printed on the inner pole, with Strakosha lucky after a not exactly impeccable intervention. Clamorous and throbbing end (euphemism) with three other woods, centered by Immobile at 84 '(crossbar), Mario Rui at 85' (cross of the poles) and Lazzari at 88 ', with Acerbi marking on the riveted but in position of offside. Game over in a San Paolo partying again after a long fast.