🧨Napoli rally for wild 2-2 v Roma, Malen shines🔝, Santos in tears 😭 | OneFootball

Napoli-Roma ends 2-2 amidst individual plays, errors, penalties, and lucky shots. The Neapolitans come back twice from Malen's brace (7' and 71') with goals from Spinazzola deflected by Pisilli (40') and Alisson Santos (82'), who had just come on and delivered a great performance.

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Napoli reaches 50 points and Roma moves to 47 points, respectively +4 and +1 over Juventus, who are in 5th place.

In the first half, Roma starts strong, immediately with the goal at 7': Mancini serves Zaragoza deep, he crosses low for Malen who scores with his first touch. The forward is a thorn in the side of the defense with long balls and counterattacks by the Giallorossi, as Napoli holds the reins of the game. The equalizer comes from an episode: Spinazzola shoots from outside the box, Pisilli deflects and Svilar is deceived by the trajectory at 40'.

The second half begins with a stalemate as Gasp tries to tactically adjust Roma (Soulé comes in) but it's Napoli that is dangerous: Svilar saves a shot from Spinazzola in the area. At 68' Wesley earns a penalty by surpassing Rrahmani on an assist from Malen, the winger is forced to change due to an ankle problem, from the spot Malen scores the 2-1: it's his 5th goal in 5 matches, only Batistuta did better as a debutant for the Giallorossi (6 goals in the first 5 games with Roma).

The entry of Alisson Santos breathes new life into Napoli, exploiting Roma's loose defense at 82': the Brazilian receives at the edge of the area and strikes the 2-2 shot. Wild celebration with tears for Napoli's new signing.

😱 Alisson Santos equalizes: 2-2 and tears

MINUTE 82 - Alisson Santos (entered 10 minutes earlier) receives at the edge of the area, Roma's defense is loose and the Brazilian strikes the shot: it's 2-2. 

Wild group celebration where the tears of Napoli's new signing are visible.

🧨 Malen's brace from the penalty spot! OUT Wesley 🤕

MINUTE 68 - Malen launches Wesley deep who surpasses Rrahmani, the Napoli player touches Wesley's foot who falls in the area. Clear penalty, as confirmed by Marelli: "There's a touch on Wesley's left foot, clear penalty."

Malen shoots with the inside and beats Milinkovic-Savic who guesses. Rrahmani is booked: "The yellow card is correct, it's a clear goal-scoring opportunity but Rrahmani tries to legitimately get the ball."

Wesley is forced to change due to an ankle problem. The Roma winger can't even put weight on it as he leaves the field.

🧤 Svilar denies Spinazzola's brace, Vergara sombrero 🤠

MINUTE 58 - Beautiful play by Vergara in midfield against Mancini: stop and sombrero to start a counterattack, shortly after the Napoli player slips.

MINUTE 47 - Politano crosses from the right, Spinazzola controls in the area and strikes with power: Svilar makes a great save.

♻️ Soulé comes in, Zaragoza (assist provider) goes out

MINUTE 46 - Soulé comes in who is not in top condition due to pubalgia. Zaragoza goes out after providing the assist for the lead and then faded as the minutes passed.

💥 1-1 by Spinazzola: Pisilli deflection! Personal goal record

MINUTE 40 - Spinazzola receives outside the area, shoots with the right foot and the trajectory is deflected by Pisilli's calf. At this point, Svilar can no longer intervene: it's 1-1 on the second shot on target of the match.

It's a record number of goals in a single Serie A season for Spinazzola: now at 3; surpassing the 20/21 season where he scored 2 with Roma.

😈 Malen on fire, "burns" Rrahmani but shoots wide

MINUTE 19 - Malen is on fire, turning every ball into a goal opportunity: a simple long pass allows Malen to burn Rrahmani - who was clearly ahead - with speed over 30 meters. Only a double cutback forces him to dribble and then shoot, which goes wide.  

👀 Hojlund wants a foul from Ndicka

MINUTE 10 - Hojlund chases a ball in depth, gets the timing on Ndicka who wraps his arms around his torso. The forward falls but referee Colombo doesn't see a foul, leading to strong protests from Hojlund and Napoli.

💣 ALWAYS Malen: 1-0, Zaragoza assist! Record numbers 📊

MINUTE 7 - Mancini serves deep to Zaragoza who crosses low into the area, Malen shoots first-time with power and beats Milinkovic-Savic, blameless on the goal.

Malen is only the third player to score 4 or more goals in the first five games with Roma in Serie A among those who debuted with the capital team in the three-point-per-win era (since 1994/95), after Gabriel Omar Batistuta (6) and Stephan El Shaarawy (4). This is reported by Opta.

🔥 Conte: "We will attack Roma, good feelings"

Antonio Conte spoke to DAZN before the Napoli-Roma match

“The feelings are good, we had a very good game against Como, it's understandable to go out on penalties in the quarter-finals. The team is in good condition, we are playing excellent matches. We will try to win the ball, to attack Roma as we do with everyone, then we will try to find solutions when we have the ball. Roma is a great team, they also make intensity and aggression their winning weapon.”

💥 Massara: "Dybala is special. Renewal? The injury..."

Frederic Massara spoke to DAZN microphones.

“Big match? The victories have been missing but not the performances. Dybala would be missed by any team, he is a special player, different, he has absolute quality, he makes the difference in Serie A. The stop does not affect the discussions we will have with him and his agent.”

✅ OFFICIAL line-ups

NAPOLI (3-4-2-1): Milinkovic-Savic; Beukema, Rrahmani, Buongiorno; Gutierrez, Lobotka, Elmas, Spinazzola; Politano, Vergara; Hojlund.

ROMA (3-4-2-1): Svilar; Mancini, N’Dicka, Ghilardi; Celik, Pisilli, Cristante, Wesley; Zaragoza, Pellegrini; Malen.

For Napoli, McTominay (injury) and Juan Jesus (suspension) are absent. For Roma, Dybala is not present while Soulé is called up but does not start, his use is difficult according to Sky Sport.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

📸 CARLO HERMANN - AFP or licensors