Naples cut halfway to the Italian Cup final, with a victory, on Wednesday, against Inter Milan 1-0 at home in the Giuseppe Meazza stadium in the first leg of the semi-final.
Thanks to Napoli’s victory, Spain’s Fabian Ruiz, the only goal (57), is the first time that the southern team managed to beat Inter at home in the Cup co It is also the first loss for Inter Milan at home in all competitions since it fell against Barcelona in the sixth round of the group stage of the Champions League on December 10, 2019. competition, according to “Opta” statistics.
Naples has not reached the final of the cup competition since the 2013-2014 season when it crowned its fifth title and was at the expense of Fiorentina 3-1.
Antonio Conte, the league’s top manager, rested several of his key players, before the next match, as he will face Lazio, third, by one point, and Juventus in Rome on Sunday.
The owner of the land was relatively superior in the first half, with some glimpses of his guest, who suffers in “A Serie”, which placed him in the eleventh place on the list.
Argentine Laotaro Martinez missed an easy ball in front of the Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina after he knocked her out of the net (17).
Ospina almost hit the net after he made the mistake of passing the ball, but German Diego Demi from Leipzig earlier this year cut the ball before it reached the Belgian Romelu Lukaku (26).
The hot Daniele Baldelli saved his goal from a certain goal after he had sent off Pieter Zielinski’s shot at the last minute while she was on the way to the net (45 + 2).
The rhythm of the match rose in its second run, and it seemed that the two teams wanted to achieve a positive result that would comfort them in the return match, which was what the guests managed to achieve after Ruiz scored the goal, following an individual effort that he started with mutual passes with Giovanni de Lorenzo and ended with a shot from the outskirts of the penalty area to the right of Padelli (57) ).
The goal gave the Napoli players a rest, then they defended the defense intending to repel the continuous attacks on their goal, while the Inter players left their area with the goal of pressing for a tie, which is soon to be achieved by the Danish alternative, Christian Eriksen, but his shot from a close distance deviated slightly from the goal (72).
The recent attempts of Inter to penetrate the area of Naples did not help after the latter’s coach, Gennaro Gattuso, requested that the area be closed to them.
The two teams will meet again in San Paulo on the fifth of next March.
On Thursday, the first leg of the other semi-finals will be played, as Juventus will visit Milan in San Siro.
