Deflections, own-goal and woodwork help Luis Enrique’s side to a surprising win at the Stadio San Paolo
A.S Roma cruised to an emphatic 3-1 win over Napoli in the Derby del Sole at Stadio San Paolo on Sunday, December 18th, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 Simplicio in the second-half.
It was a much needed win for Luis Enrique’s side as it will relieve a lot of pressure off them. The Giallorossi climb to the 7th spot after the win, meanwhile, Napoli’s poor run of league form continues.
Walter Mazzarri made three changes to his side from the 1-1 draw against Novara last weekend. Gokhan Inler, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-Maggio-c9098.
On the other hand, Luis Enrique made several changes to his team from the 1-1 draw against Juventus recently. Pablo http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Francesco-Totti-c13940 started upfront for the visitors.
The game got off to a worst possible start for the hosts, as some individual brilliance from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Hugo-Campagnaro-c16394 with ease before fizzing a low cross which deflected
off http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Salvatore-Aronica-c32276 and De Sanctis and went into the back of the net to give the visitors the lead.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Maarten-Stekelenburg-c22998. A minute later, Hamsik played
a lovely ball on the left to Inler, whose dangerous cross was met by a diving clearance from the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 shot-stopper.
Sanity returned to proceedings after a lively start as both teams looked to maintain possession. The Partenopei side started to maintain its dominance and came extremely close to an equaliser on the 24th minute mark.
Zuniga turned http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleandro-Rosi-c4378 inside out and played a lovely ball in the middle for Hamsik, who missed from an open goal. The home fans were stunned by the Slovakian’s miss and the player himself could not believe what he had done.
The host’s continued to apply the pressure as they forced Stekelenburg into making another brilliant save. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Paolo-Cannavaro-c29080 played a lovely ball to Maggio, whose first-time volley was met by another brilliant save from the Dutch
international.
Luck continued to favour the visitors, as Napoli were denied a clear goal-scoring by the woodwork on 34th minute. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ezequiel-Lavezzi-c13073 exchanged some lovely passes with Hamsik before thumping a fierce low strike which rattled
against the post.
Roma had two lovely opportunities to double their advantage on the stroke of half-time. De Rossi played a lovely ball to Osvaldo, who controlled the ball brilliantly and stabbed his shot just wide of the far post. Minutes later,
the former Espanyol star played the ball to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Leandro-Greco-c21833, whose powerful shot rattled against the cross-bar.
A lively first-half came to an exciting as the Giallorossi went into the tunnel with their heads held high.
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