Napoli stumbles with his tie with Genoa with Inter approaching the lead – ryan

Napoli player Romelu Lukaku after scoring a goal in his team’s match against Genoa in the Italian First Division Football League Napoli on May 11, 2025 – (Photo Agency/Getty Images)

Napoli remained in the lead with 78 points, one point ahead of Inter, who won 2-0 to Turin earlier in the day, with two rounds remaining at the end of the season.

The clay is worse for the owner of the land to replace the midfielder Stanislav Lobotka, just minutes after the start of the match due to an ankle problem.

Romelu Lukaku scored the opening goal of Napoli after 15 minutes of the match, after Scott Maktinai sent a perfect pass inside the penalty area to put Lukaku in the net from the first touch after escaping from the censorship.

Genoa almost realized the tie half an hour after the time of the match, when the Andrea Benamont’s header hit after a cross pass from a free kick in the crossbar.

Genoa pressed the tie in the 32nd minute, with a goal in his goal, scored by Napoli goalkeeper Alex Merit, after Honyaist Ahankor played a header that the goalkeeper kept away from the post, then returned to hit his body and lived in the net.

The bleak atmosphere changed at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium in the 64th minute when Giakomo Rasparadori launched a powerful shot from a close distance, putting Napoli in the front and igniting the atmosphere in the stands.

But Johan Vasquez’s goal with a header six minutes before the end of the match silenced the fans on the field, so that everyone realizes that the title race became wide open again.

Maktinai called on the fans to calm down, indicating that the team still has a priority, even a simple title in the title race.

“We must keep our calm, not the time to panic,” he said.

“Genoa is a strong team, he scored two goals well and we must look at the mistakes we made.”

Napoli will be a guest of Parma in the next round, while he will play his last match in the season against its guest Cagliari.

On the other hand, Inter Milan hosts his opponent Lazio at the San Siro stadium before concluding the season when he is a guest of Como.

“We must preserve the same mentality, it is what helped us reach this situation, so we have to move forward with the same strength and diligence at work as we did daily,” Rasradori said.