Serie A match report: Chievo Verona 1-0 Napoli
Chievo Verona once again lived up to their tags of ‘Giant Killers’ as they beat Napoli 1-0 in a Serie A encounter at the Stadio Marc Antonio Bentegodi, Verona on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Davide-c10638 Moscardelli scored the only goal of the game, as Chievo tasted their first win of the 2011/12 season.
Domenico Di Carlo made wholesale changes to his starting line-up from the 2-1 defeat to Parma in their last game. Influential striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-Pellissier-c33091 missed the game through leg injury and Cyril Thereau replaced him in the starting
line-up.
On the other hand, Walter Mazzarri also reshuffled his pack from a 3-1 victory over the Champions, Milan. Hat-trick hero, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Goran-Pandev-c15161 lead the attack
in a 3-5-2-1 formation.
The hosts got the game off to a bright start and could have scored in the third minute. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rinaldo-Cruzado-c31166 clear on goal but his ambitious effort from outside the box sailed over the
bar.
The Azzurri had a wonderful opportunity to open the scoring in the 7th minute, as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mario-Santana-c24037 made a lovely run in the opposition box but his powerful shot missed the left side of the post by few inches.
The visitors looked strong in the opening few minutes and came close to scoring from several opportunities. The Flying Donkey’s also had some few superb opportunities to take the lead especially an effort from Perparim Hetemaj
from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alberto-c4309 Paloschi’s cross went whiskers away from Morgan De Sanctis’s goal.
The game dried up in the middle period of the first half and neither of the two teams could threaten the goal. The game ended 0-0 at the break, as both teams played on equal footing.
The hosts got the second half off to a bright, as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luca-Rigoni-c22520 played a lovely cross to Hetemaj but the Finnish star’s shot was brilliantly saved by De Sanctis down to his left.
Just before the hour mark, both teams decided to make a double change. Cavani and Inler replaced Santana and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Paolo-Sammarco-c29099 came on for Thereau and Cruzado.
The change could have brought instant dividends for the hosts but Bostjan Cesar and Moscardelli could not take full advantage of their chances.
The Partenopei side decided to make their final substitution in the 71st minute as they brought on Slovakian star, Marek Hamsik for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Giuseppe-Mascara-c15024. However, the change could not stop the hosts from taking a lead almost
immediately. Substitute, Moscardelli struck a wonderful shot into the top left corner of the goal to make it 1-0 for Domenico Di Carlo’s side.
The visitors pressed hard for an equaliser but their chances went in vain as they suffered their third consecutive defeat at the hands of Chievo.
Chievo: Sorrentino; Sardo, Morero, Cesar, Jokic; Rigoni, Bradley, Hetemaj, Cruzado (Sammarco 59); Paloschi (Mandelli 84), Thereau (Moscardelli 59)
Napoli: De Sanctis; Fernandez, Aronica, Fideleff; Maggio (Inler 58), Gargano, Dzemaili, Zuniga; http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Santana-c32502 (Cavani 58), Mascara (Hamsik 71); Pandev
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Napoli-c40003 will take on Fiorentina in their next league game on Saturday, September 24th, 2011, while Chievo will host Genoa the next day.
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