NAPLES \u2013 A never-ending penalty shootout at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium rewarded Napoli, who advanced to the Coppa Italia quarterfinals to face the winner of Fiorentina-Como. The final score between Napoli and Cagliari was 10-9 after the penalty shootout that resulted in a 1-1 draw after regulation time. Zito Luvumbo's miss proved decisive.<\/p>\n
The Azzurri's first chance came in the sixth minute. Oliveira tried a shot from outside the box, but the ball was intercepted. Two minutes later, Pasquale Mazzocchi ventured into the opponent's box, but was unsuccessful. In the 28th minute, Lucca broke the deadlock. The Azzurri capitalized on a dead ball situation, and the Napoli striker collected a cross and headed home. The first half ended with a flash of brilliance from Politano, who crossed, but Luperto cleared the danger.<\/p>\n
In the sixty-fifth minute, Napoli threatened through Mazzocchi, who was beaten to the spot by Idrissi. Two minutes later, Cagliari scored. Esposito, after a rebound, found himself alone in front of goal and scored the equalizer. In the eighty-seventh minute, McTominay chested down the ball and attempted to slot it past Caprile, but it was a corner. A final flash of brilliance before penalties.<\/p>\n
"Last year against Modena too," Antonio Conte recalled after the match, "we went to penalties. This one was much tougher, because all the players were very good and it was difficult for the goalkeepers. In the end, the team that deserved the most went through. It's disappointing that McTominay scored an inadvertent and fortuitous goal. We're happy; everyone responded well. We know we're not many, but we have to keep going and make a virtue of necessity. I'm happy with everyone's effort.".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NAPOLI – Un\u2019infinita lotteria dei rigori al Diego Armando Maradona premia il Napoli che approda ai quarti di finale di Coppa Italia per affrontare la vincente di Fiorentina-Como. 10-9 il risultato finale tra Napoli e Cagliari dopo la serie di penalty scaturita dall\u20191-1 del tempo regolamentare. Decisivo l\u2019errore di Zito Luvumbo. La prima occasione per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-114505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calcio"],"relative_dates":{"created":"10 months ago","modified":"10 months ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"paolopicone","display_name":"Redazione Centrale","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/54de8379a15a6539d41f5cd43c1b6fc220d10161ae5fefcd739b4111632a6a1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Redazione","last_name":"Centrale","user_url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114505"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=114505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}