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FilGoal | News | Napoli celebrates Maradona’s birthday in advance with a quartet against Sassuolo

Napoli consolidated their leadership in the Italian league, with a new landslide victory over Sassuolo, 4-0 in the 12th round of the competition.

Napoli celebrated in advance the birthday of the legend Diego Armando Maradona, whose memory falls on Sunday 30 October.

Napoli’s victory was obtained thanks to the hat-trick of Victor Osimhen and Javichia Kvarastaglia.

Thirteenth consecutive victory in all competitions for Partenopi, the only team in Italy not to have tasted defeat this season.

Napoli raises the score to 32 points ahead, to 6 points from Milan, who will meet Torino on Sunday.

The balance of Sassuolo stops at 15 points in ninth place.

Napoli took the lead at the beginning with a brace in the 4th and 19th minutes, signed by the Nigerian Osmin and the Georgian Khvichia.

On 36 minutes the Georgian scored his sixth goal of the season with a powerful shot from inside the box.

Kafara became the third most marked player in the first 12 games with 11 goals (6 scored and 5 assisted), after Cristiano Ronaldo (13) and Diego Milito (15).

In the 77th minute, Osimhen scored his seventh league goal, pushing Austrian Marko Arnatovic as the top scorer.

Osimhen became the first hat-trick in the Italian league this season and the first Nigerian to score a hat-trick in the competition.

At 84 ‘Sassuolo closed the match with ten men after the expulsion of Frenchman Armand Lewarente after receiving a second yellow card.

The game ends with a new Napoli victory, waiting for someone to stop it.

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