MAGIC OF MERTENS, GOAL OF HAMSIK: NAPLES WINS EVEN IN BENEVENTO

Crowded “Ciro Vigorito” stadium. Almost 30 thousand present. Difficult to say how many fans are Napoli. Many, many. There is twinning and the climate on the stadium is football. The match Benevento – Napoli on paper has no history, but the derby are never easy. The Samnites are taillights in a championship dominated by Naples. Maurizio Sarri deploys the best training with the return of Albiol for a boarding from the first minute. Winning means staying in the head. The first minutes are of the Samnite brand. They take possession of the ball, attack Napoli, make a pressing very high and worry Reina. The initial outburst of Benevento lasts ten minutes. At 13 minutes before the Naples blazes. Insigne sees the goalkeeper out of the posts, try a lob, takes the crossbar.
At 15 minutes always Insigne who releases in the Hamsik area. The captain pulls very high. The match is now in the hands of Napoli. At the minute 19 magic of Mertens. Receives ball in the area, fake, turns, right to round, lob, goal. Applause from the entire stadium. A few minutes and it is still the Napoli that at 25 minutes touches the goal always with Martens.
At the 39 minute action of Benvento counterattack that however fails to go beyond a shot on the outside of the network. At 40 minutes Allan served in front of the door of Benevento strong pulls, the goalkeeper manages to save.
The second half begins with a great play of Allan, passage to Callejon, support to Hamsik that puts on the network. Just a minute and Napoli goes on 2 to 0. The Benevento does not give up, continues to make his game and to respond to Napoli blow blow. At 10 minutes Koulibaly lands a Samnite in the area. The referee assigns the penalty. With the Var, however, the action is reviewed and the penalty canceled due to clear offside at the time of contact between Costa and Koulibaly. However, excellent match of Benevento that does not stop in front of the Naples superpower and try to score. At 30 minutes comes out Mertens due to injury. He remedied a bad blow from behind the left leg by a Samnite defender who arrived late on the ball.