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Napoli received a 3-0 defeat and a one-point deduction for not traveling to Turin earlier this month after two coronavirus cases were recorded on the team. But Gennaro Gattuso’s side picked up where it left off before the controversy, with a third victory in the same number of league games they have played.
“Brilliant Napoli! What a pity not to be able to play Juventus in Turin,“Naples owner Aurelio De Laurentiis tweeted.
Mexican forward Lozano scored two quick goals in the first half, after scoring a double in Napoli’s previous full match: a 6-0 win over Genoa also at the San Paolo stadium. Matteo Politano exploded in a third after half an hour with Victor osimhen grabbing his first Napoli goal just before the break.
Slovenian forward Josip Ilicic returned for Atalanta after almost three months due to personal problems, starting with Papu Gómez and Duvan Zapata. But with many players returning from international service on the side of Gian Piero Gasperini lacked the power of fire of his three previous games in which he had scored 13 goals.
France midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko had her first opening for Napoli with Lorenzo Insigne injured and Piotr Zielinski and Eljif Elmas still recovering from the coronavirus. Lozano scored a cross from Giovanni Di Lorenzo at 20 minutes, kinky in the seconds minutes after after a mess in the defense of Atalanta.
Politano shot in a third after half an hour with Osimhen scoring his first Napoli goal just before the break after another defensive mistake of Atalanta. Nigerian Osimhen lifted a shirt after his debut goal on which was written “End Police Brutality in Nigeria “ while protests against police violence continue in their home country.
Replace Sam Lammers retired a goal with 20 minutes to go, but Atalanta fell from first place to second with Napoli one point behind them in third place.
Later on saturday Zlatan Ibrahimovic prepares to return in the Milan derby, while Juventus will be without Cristiano Ronaldo on his way south to Crotone.
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