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Napoli 1 Inter 0
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first game Inter's about to lose in a while
They did lose 1-0
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QUOTE(music_man)
first game Inter's about to lose in a while
Well they haven't been racking up the points lately either. Not that it will affect their title.
Everyone needs to lose at some point in the season, pity for the Serie A title race it wasn't last week against Juventus
QUOTE(Funki @ Apr 26 2009, 05:46 PM) 
Well they haven't been racking up the points lately either. Not that it will affect their title.
at least the gap will not be that big
Serie A Week 33 - 26/4/09 (19.30 UK)
Napoli 1 - 0 Inter
Zalayeta 73 (N)
Stadio San Paolo
Marcelo Zalayeta sent Inter falling to a shock defeat at Napoli, slicing their lead at the top to just seven points.
The San Paolo curse strikes again, as the Nerazzurri have not won here since 1997 and lose for the second year on the trot. It's their first Serie A defeat since the 3-1 at Atalanta on January 18.
Roberto Donadoni was still without hs first win and last week suffered a debut loss to Cagliari. He hoped the prestige of welcoming the Serie A leaders would wake his side up, albeit missing Walter Gargano, Christian Maggio, Luigi Vitale, Gennaro Iezzo, Leandro Rinaudo and the suspended Paolo Cannavaro.
Inter had the Scudetto in their grasp thanks to a 10-point lead and made this trip without Douglas Maicon, Hernan Crespo, Sulley Muntari, Nelson Rivas and Francesco Bolzoni.
Napoli had one victory in 2009 and had not scored on home turf for 431 minutes of football. Last season they were going through a similar crisis before the 1-0 over Inter sparked a late rally.
They had a very aggressive start, putting the first cross into the box after 12 seconds, but after 100 seconds Navarro flew to fingertip Walter Samuel's glancing header round the post.
Patrick Vieira was booked for a late tackle on Daniele Mannini, while Mario Balotelli hit the roof of the net from 30 yards. A Zlatan Ibrahimovic volley with the outside of his right foot whipped just over.
Ezequiel Lavezzi curled a couple of free kicks off target from just outside the box for the home side and also drilled over on the counter.
Balotelli's dipping half-volley with his weaker left foot forced Navarro into a tricky double save. SuperMario also curled in a dangerous cross that Fabiano Santacroce nicked off Dejan Stankovic's foot from six yards.
Marek Hamsik would have been sent through clear on goal, but just failed to get control of Lavezzi's through ball. The Slovak international has been poor of late and was leaning back to volley well over from a very promising position.
After the restart Lavezzi went on the counter and fell under pressure from Stankovic, but the referee correctly waved play on. German Denis trapped the ball with his back to goal and turned inside the box, but Ivan Cordoba and Samuel managed to charge down the shot.
Francesco Montervino horribly wasted a promising counter, while Vieira opted to fire - meekly - at Navarro rather than spread the play for Ibra.
Marcelo Zalayeta - who scored in this fixture last season - replaced Denis. He could've scored with his first touch, but Mannini foolishly went for goal instead of crossing for the Uruguayan.
On 67 minutes Navarro had to get down to fingertip a screamer of an Ibrahimovic free kick round the base of the near post.
Napoli broke the deadlock after 73 minutes and it was that man Zalayeta again! Inter's nightmare found space in the D from Lavezzi's through ball and unleashed a right-foot screamer that swerved mercilessly past Julio Cesar rooted to the spot.
Julio Cruz immediately replaced Vieira for a very attacking formation. There was bad news for Napoli, as Lavezzi pulled up mid-run with a suspected thigh strain and limped off to make way for Jesus Datolo. As Pocho took his time to limp away, Balotelli came flying in to complain and sparked a scuffle, receiving a yellow card.
Manuele Blasi nearly got a second with a bizarre finish, as his snapshot from outside the area took a deflection to wrong-foot Julio Cesar. The goalkeeper palmed it into the air and backpedalled to gather the ball as it came back down.
Datolo's free kick was deflected over, but Inter struggled to make any impact in the final stages.
Napoli: Navarro; Santacroce, Contini, Aronica; Montervino, Amodio (Bogliacino 88), Blasi, Hamsik, Mannini; Lavezzi (Datolo 83), Denis (Zalayeta 63)
Inter: Julio Cesar; Zanetti, Cordoba, Samuel, Chivu (Maxwell 81); Vieira (Cruz 75), Cambiasso, Stankovic; Figo (Mancini 69), Balotelli, Ibrahimovic
Ref: Rosetti
Napoli 1 - 0 Inter
Zalayeta 73 (N)
Stadio San Paolo
Marcelo Zalayeta sent Inter falling to a shock defeat at Napoli, slicing their lead at the top to just seven points.
The San Paolo curse strikes again, as the Nerazzurri have not won here since 1997 and lose for the second year on the trot. It's their first Serie A defeat since the 3-1 at Atalanta on January 18.
Roberto Donadoni was still without hs first win and last week suffered a debut loss to Cagliari. He hoped the prestige of welcoming the Serie A leaders would wake his side up, albeit missing Walter Gargano, Christian Maggio, Luigi Vitale, Gennaro Iezzo, Leandro Rinaudo and the suspended Paolo Cannavaro.
Inter had the Scudetto in their grasp thanks to a 10-point lead and made this trip without Douglas Maicon, Hernan Crespo, Sulley Muntari, Nelson Rivas and Francesco Bolzoni.
Napoli had one victory in 2009 and had not scored on home turf for 431 minutes of football. Last season they were going through a similar crisis before the 1-0 over Inter sparked a late rally.
They had a very aggressive start, putting the first cross into the box after 12 seconds, but after 100 seconds Navarro flew to fingertip Walter Samuel's glancing header round the post.
Patrick Vieira was booked for a late tackle on Daniele Mannini, while Mario Balotelli hit the roof of the net from 30 yards. A Zlatan Ibrahimovic volley with the outside of his right foot whipped just over.
Ezequiel Lavezzi curled a couple of free kicks off target from just outside the box for the home side and also drilled over on the counter.
Balotelli's dipping half-volley with his weaker left foot forced Navarro into a tricky double save. SuperMario also curled in a dangerous cross that Fabiano Santacroce nicked off Dejan Stankovic's foot from six yards.
Marek Hamsik would have been sent through clear on goal, but just failed to get control of Lavezzi's through ball. The Slovak international has been poor of late and was leaning back to volley well over from a very promising position.
After the restart Lavezzi went on the counter and fell under pressure from Stankovic, but the referee correctly waved play on. German Denis trapped the ball with his back to goal and turned inside the box, but Ivan Cordoba and Samuel managed to charge down the shot.
Francesco Montervino horribly wasted a promising counter, while Vieira opted to fire - meekly - at Navarro rather than spread the play for Ibra.
Marcelo Zalayeta - who scored in this fixture last season - replaced Denis. He could've scored with his first touch, but Mannini foolishly went for goal instead of crossing for the Uruguayan.
On 67 minutes Navarro had to get down to fingertip a screamer of an Ibrahimovic free kick round the base of the near post.
Napoli broke the deadlock after 73 minutes and it was that man Zalayeta again! Inter's nightmare found space in the D from Lavezzi's through ball and unleashed a right-foot screamer that swerved mercilessly past Julio Cesar rooted to the spot.
Julio Cruz immediately replaced Vieira for a very attacking formation. There was bad news for Napoli, as Lavezzi pulled up mid-run with a suspected thigh strain and limped off to make way for Jesus Datolo. As Pocho took his time to limp away, Balotelli came flying in to complain and sparked a scuffle, receiving a yellow card.
Manuele Blasi nearly got a second with a bizarre finish, as his snapshot from outside the area took a deflection to wrong-foot Julio Cesar. The goalkeeper palmed it into the air and backpedalled to gather the ball as it came back down.
Datolo's free kick was deflected over, but Inter struggled to make any impact in the final stages.
Napoli: Navarro; Santacroce, Contini, Aronica; Montervino, Amodio (Bogliacino 88), Blasi, Hamsik, Mannini; Lavezzi (Datolo 83), Denis (Zalayeta 63)
Inter: Julio Cesar; Zanetti, Cordoba, Samuel, Chivu (Maxwell 81); Vieira (Cruz 75), Cambiasso, Stankovic; Figo (Mancini 69), Balotelli, Ibrahimovic
Ref: Rosetti
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