Napoli overcame their problems at "Marassi" and came away with a win against Genoa with a player less - they did it with a penalty goal in the 95th minute when Rasmus Hojlund was safe from the penalty spot.
When a match is won in Italy in this way, controversy is a common occurrence, and it was not absent this time either, because the "Griffin" coach Daniele de Rossi was very angry about the way his team was defeated.
Genoa lost to Lazio in injury time in the last round, also by a penalty...
"The sport I played no longer exists - this is not that football," said the legendary midfielder.
"I don't know what the rules are, what is a penalty and what is not. We are losing the second match in a row the same way and I don't know how to tell the players in the locker room to keep their heads up and move on," De Rossi pointed out.
His team took an early lead through Ruslan Malinovski (from the penalty spot), Napoli turned the tables by halftime with goals from Hoylund and Scott McTominay.
The Scot then got injured, Genoa reached 2:2, and the current champion was left with ten men about twenty minutes before the end because Juan Jesus received a second yellow card.
The home team wanted to win and attacked, and then referee Davide Massa, with the help of VAR, called the duel between Maxwell Corne and Antonio Vergara a penalty.. Hojlund somehow managed to shake the net...
Napoli has now closed to within six points of leader Inter, one less than Milan, but a match more than both rivals.
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