Napoli deflated his anger in a fourfold past Atalanta and relegated him from the lead
The Napoli team knocked Atalanta in the fourth (4-1) and eliminated him from the lead, on Saturday in the fourth stage of the Italian football league, thus emptying his anger at the decision to lose 0-3 due to his absence from the Juventus match last week.
For Mexican Napoli, Herving Lozano (23 and 27), Matteo Politano (30), Nigerian Victor Osimhen (43) scored for Napoli, while Dutchman Sam Lammers scored Atalanta's only goal (69).
Napoli's victory comes in the week that saw a point deduction from its balance and its loss of the last stage match with Juventus due to his absence, on the pretext of infecting players in its ranks with the Corona virus.
Napoli thus returned to the leading teams, raising its score to eight points in third place.
The loss was very harsh for Atalanta, who had scored 13 goals in his first three matches, which allowed him to sit on top.
Atalanta fell temporarily to second place on goal difference from Milan, who plays the derby against Inter at a later time, while Juventus, the defending champion in the last nine seasons, will play with Crotone on Saturday.
Napoli started the match with high pressure, but it took until the 23rd minute to open the scoring with Luzano's close-range shot in the middle of the goal.
Four minutes later, Lozano scored again with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area, following a pass by Belgian Dries Mertens.
Napoli continued their offensive pressure, so Politano translated him into a third goal (30), with a missile shot from outside the penalty area, which he placed in the left scissors of goalkeeper Marco Sportello.
Osimehen concluded the four goals of Napoli in the first half, with a right-footed ground shot from outside the penalty area to the right of the goalkeeper, after a pass from Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina (43).
After a relatively equal second half between the two parties, Atalanta doubled his attempts, which resulted in only an orphan goal scored by Lammers (69), after he was alone with Ospina after a long forward pass from Argentine Christian Romero.
He did not stand out with Atalanta, his Slovenian striker Josip Ilicic, in his first match after an absence of three months for psychological reasons.
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