Napoli’s dreams of achieving the “Scudetto” began to fade gradually, after they fell to Empoli 3-2 despite their 2-0 lead until the 80th minute on Sunday, in the 34th stage of the Italian Football League.
Napoli’s defense, seeking to achieve its first title in the league since the era of Argentine legend Diego Maradona, faltered in the last ten minutes, as the substitute French full-back Kevin Malkoi lost the ball, which allowed Empoli to reduce the result to 2-1 through Scottish Liam Henderson (80), before it was… Andrea Pinamonti is unique with goalkeeper Alex Merritt and equalizes 2-2 (83).
Before this coup from Empoli, the match was within the reach of the dominant Napoli, and he advanced with the goals of Belgian Dries Mertens (44) and Lorenzo Insigne (53).
But coach Luciano Spalletti was defenseless in the absence of his suspended Senegalese rock, Kalidou Coulibaly.
And two minutes before the end of the original time, Pinamonti himself returned to eliminate Napoli’s efforts to even get a point, and scored the winning goal (88), leaving Napoli in third place with 67 points, five points behind leaders Inter.
For his part, Empoli raised its score to 37 points, in 14th place.
Prior to that, Salernitana, who had been in the last position for a long time for many months and was facing the inevitable relegation risk, continued his recent revival and achieved his third victory in a week by dropping Fiorentina, seeking to one of the European positions, 1-0 on Sunday.
Salernitana beat Sampdoria 2-1 in the last round and then Udinese 1-0 in the middle of the week in a postponed match to become only 3 points away from the last team that occupies a position that qualifies to remain in the elite clubs, which is Cagliari, knowing that they will meet on the eighth of next month.
Bosnian giants Milan Durić opened the scoring with a header after 9 minutes. Fiorentina managed to equalize through Ricardo Sabonara, but the last word was for Salernitana, whose reserve Federico Bonazoli scored the winning goal, taking advantage of a mistake by Fiorentina defender Igor (79).