Osimhen wins penalty as Napoli recover Serie A best position with Bologna win

By Labaran Kenneth

The Nigeria striker assumed key part in aiding the Parthenopeans skip back to winning ways after Sunday’s goalless draw against Roma.

Victor Osimhen won a penalty for Napoli in their 3-0 victory over Bologna in Thursday’s Serie An encounter.

The 22-year-old couldn’t add to his count of five league goals, yet his contribution at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona assisted the hosts with recapturing their lead at the highest point of the table.

Fabian Ruiz got Napoli looking flying so far with an early goal in the eighteenth moment and not long before half-time, the hosts were granted a penalty after Gary Medel was found guilty to have taken care of the ball with his arm during an aeronautical test with Osimhen.

Lorenzo Insigne step forward to convert from the spot as the Parthenopeans kept a two-gaol lead at the break.

After the restart, Napoli continued to push to expand their lead and they won one more penalty after Senegal safeguard Ibrahima Mbaye cut down Osimhen in the 59th moment.

Insigne was emboldened again and he scored his second goal of the night to seal greatest point for the hosts.

The winning was Napoli’s 9th league win in 10 matches, after they dropped their first point of the season in a goalless draw with Roma on Sunday.

Osimhen played the whole span close by Senegal’s Kalidou Koulibaly while Cameroon’s Andre-Honest Zambo Anguissa was in real life for 75 minutes and Algeria safeguard Faouzi Ghoulam made his re-visitation of activity as a 87th-minute substitute.

Next up for Osimhen and his Napoli teammates, is an league fixture against Simy and Joel Obi’s Salernitana on Sunday.

In the mean time, assistant coach Marco Domenichini who led Napoli without even a trace of suspended manager Luciano Spalletti adulated praised the team for the victory.

“We dealt with the game well,” Domenichini told the club’s site. “The success is merited, we began a little more slow than expected however at that point we figured out how to manage pace and score.

“We have an available group that follows his coach day after day for a long time. This group is the aftereffect of Spalletti’s work yet additionally the utilization of the young men.

“Indeed, even the individuals who came on the bench gave a basic contribution. We really wanted to proceed with this way, thinking race by race as we have been doing so far.

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