The Coppa Italia title is the trophy that many Serie A teams want to crown, and in the third round, napoli's matchup with Fiorentina has attracted a lot of attention. Napoli is the dark horse team in Serie A this season, currently in third place in the league, and there is still hope of a title race. Historically, Napoli and Fiorentina have both won six Coppa Italia, and both teams are extremely successful clubs in this tournament, and there are many direct confrontations in this campaign.
The rhythm of both teams in this game was quite bright, without dragging the mud and water. After the opening, Vlahovic became the most active attacking end of the Fiorentina side, and his long-range shots and headers were quite threatening, making the Napoli defence a bit difficult to handle. Sure enough, after many attempts, he finally had a harvest in the 40th minute. This time it was Sabonara's instigation on the left side, he broke through the defender's stare after calmly crossed, the middle of the road Vlahović got the ball and took advantage of the trend, shook out of the shooting space, and then calmly pushed the score, the score came to 1-0.
However, Fiorentina did not have a happy 3 minutes, their goalkeeper Drongovsky made a low-level mistake, his big foot ball did not open, directly cut off by the Napoli player in front of him, and then his teammate handed the ball to Mertens' feet, because of the sudden firefrene players did not have time to defend, so the Belgium international easily shot into the far corner to break the goal, the score came to 1-1. Fortunately, at the start of the second half, Fiorentina adjusted in time for the slump after losing the ball due to low-level mistakes, and in the 56th minute, Biraj scored with two consecutive free-kicks to complete the goal, and the score was rewritten to 2-1.
The score that was hard to equalize was overtaken in the blink of an eye, and this time it was the turn of the Napoli players to fluctuate. Especially in the second half, the players' emotions became more and more impatient. No, in the 83rd minute, Lozano was sent off by the referee for maliciously stepping on Gonzalez's ankle, and 10 minutes later, Fabian recklessly fouled people in defense, was shown a second yellow card, and was also sent off. At this time, Napoli only had 9 people left, but a magical scene appeared, in the 5th minute of injury time, Napoli attacked for the last time, Petania received a flat cross from her teammate on the right and pushed the goal, the score came to 2-2, forcing the suspense to be left in extra time.
However, due to the inferior numbers, Napoli completely collapsed in extra time. The Fiorentina side scored in the 105th minute by Venuti. Two minutes later, Piyantek was the icing on the cake, and in the 118th minute Malech gave Napoli a fatal blow, eventually locking the score at 5-2, and the Purple Lily advanced to the fourth round of the Coppa Italia.
This game is really a twist and turn, the battle is very fierce, addictive. Originally thought that Napoli would simply give up the struggle after being sent off two people, who would have thought that the injury time stage could still be staged in a great draw. In extra time, the Purple Lily also completed the big explosion in time when Vlahović was replaced, relying on the multi-point blossom of the players in the front court, and finally had a thrilling first victory. Curiously, the post-match possession rate showed that Napoli, which played two less, also had 48%, close to 50% of the ball, which shows that this team is an extremely tenacious and powerful Serie A veteran team.
Of course, Fiorentina's Vlahović once again proved his worth. After this match, Vlahovic has scored 19 goals on all fronts, bearing in mind that this is only Vlahovic's 23rd appearance this season, so efficient and long and stable that he has become the top center in Europe. Now that his value has reached 70 million euros, seeing such a hot state, Arsenal, the Premier League giants who have been coveting Vlahović, may have to take a shot as soon as possible, otherwise according to his play, the rest of the giants who are not bad for Real Madrid and Paris will also be eager for them, which will be more than worth the Gunners.