Lazio put back at its place: Napoli is just too strong for them!

What a great match last night! Lazio (4th) and Napoli (3rd) closed the Italian Serie A week 31st and it didn't take long to understand how the match was going to be. At the beginning it seemed that the Simone Inzaghi players were guessing again the way to play the match getting few times near the Napoli's box with Milinkovic-Savic and Immobile but with no luck.

The impressive famous ball possessing by Napoli was pretty clear after a while and the 0-1 lead comes as easy as it looked on screens at 25' : Mertens for Hamsik that gave a superb assist to Callejon that only need to push the ball in. The classic goal you probably scored at PES many times!

Callejon ( Picture taken from WorldSoccerTalk)

 Napoli dominate the first half even missing another huge chance with Insigne all alone in front of Strakosha but his shot went out for nothing. No difference in the second half with a Lazio team very passive and you can see that when Insigne anticipated everyone goalkeeper included putting in a very important 0-2 at 51'.

Insigne (Picture taken from Gazzetta.it)

This is the exact moment when coach Inzaghi decided to put on the pitch Keita and things really changes even because Napoli also had to take a breath. Lazio became very dangerous and missing some very important chances with Keita and Immobile that could really open the match again but tonight wasn't just the right night for them.

The killer goal arrived at 90' when Insigne finalizes another great coral move with a precise and  powerful shot and cross by Zielinski. 0-3 well deserved.

Sarri (Picture taken from NapoliFootball.com)

Sarri put in the perfect team and Lazio probably found itself up there in the league thanks to many fortunate matches and of course some skills too anyway. Probably a mistake to put on the pitch the young Murgia since the beginning and also living out of the pitch a player like Keita it was another huge mistake. I guess Simone Inzaghi trusted his luck and his team too much this time. At the end Lazio never really wasn't in for the win you could clearly see they only started to get dangerous on the 0-2 when Napoli's team was kind of safe or at list was having a moment of fatigue especially after two fantastic matches against Juventus. Hamsik was just perfect and indeed he always plays every match. Napoli just need some more quality changes and they will definitely have more chances of winning the title again. Bravi! You are making the all Italian Serie A proud!

No surprises at San Paolo! Juventus goes on!

The San Paolo stadium looked like the Hell for Juventus after the "lesson" the zebras got from them in the Italian Serie A fixture ended up with a unfair 1-1 draw. But that was another match. Last night Napoli had to get back on track and recover a 3-1 from the Italian Cup Semi-Final first leg in order to get Roma for the future final. It has been another great match by Napoli but as always not enough.

Again many useless talks about Higuain and bla bla bla even a silly Napoli supporter that got into the field just to bother the start of a great match and quickly kicked out. This time the "fat guy" - talking about Gonzalo and the social media jokes about him  - punished them.

Napoli started very well as always with great coral actions, ball possession and a great feeling between Milk, Insigne, Hamsik and Callejon that have been very spectacular in few occasions but always finding a great Neto on their way at least in the first half.

The Pipita silenced the San Paolo at 32' when he stroke a powerful and precise shoot on the right side of Reina that got surprised by it. 0-1 that already put a black mark on the partenopei's hope especially because this is how the first half was.

HIGUAIN (Picture taken from Thethao ) 

The second half is another story because finally the Napoli's offensive players seemed to getting shoot in targets much more and at the 53' Marek Hamsik put in a great strike from right outside the penalty box and there was nothing to do for Neto , 1-1 and Napoli smiled again. Didn't last much! 5 minutes after that Cuadrado put a fast low ball in the box finding a great coming by Higuain that powerfully scored the 1-2 that secured the Final qualification even if there were still more than 20 minutes to play.

Hamsik (Picture taken from Zimbio)

Napoli did its best to recover the desperate situation and they actually made it. 3 minutes after Higuain's second goal, Sarri put Mertens on the pitch and he practically scored immediately taking advantage of a huge mistake by Neto that slipped the ball from his feet. Fantastic run by Mertens and congrats to him for believing that the keeper could have made a mistake. Great Intuition and it's 2-2.

At this point the home team is attacking like a military tank force over a field of flowers and they even found the 3-2 at 67' with Insigne! It didn't seem impossible to score 2 more goals at that point and incredibly Napoli actually had 2 big occasions both wasted by Pavoletti, the first one again thanks to an almost mistake by Neto - very distracted in the second half - and the second one the unluckly striker shot went over the bar for centimeters! 

Allegri and Sarri (Picture taken from RadioGoal24)

Allegri and company can smile and being happy to have reached the Final against such a powerful team like Napoli. Sarri can still see a lot of positive signs out of the match but still a very sour taste in his mouth. Juventus has been beaten but not completely because they will be the ones who will play the Italian Cup Final against Lazio!