(AFP) - Napoli continued tweeting alone in the lead, reinforcing its position before the temporary cessation due to the Qatar World Cup 2022, when it defeated its guest Udinese 3-2 on Sunday in the fifteenth stage of the Italian Football League .
And he took turns scoring the Napoli trio, Nigerian Victor Osimhen (15), Poland's Piotr Jelinsky (31), and North Macedonian Elif Elmas (58), while Udinese's other North Macedonian Ilya Nestorovsky (79) and Germany's Lazar Samardzic (82) scored.
Napoli achieved its eleventh successive victory in the league and its thirteenth this season, raising its score to 41 points in the lead, 11 points ahead of its closest pursuers, Lazio II and Milan III, and the defending champions, who play Sunday against Juventus and Fiorentina, respectively.
And Napoli remains the only team that has not lost any match so far in the league, in its quest for its third title in its history and the first since the 1989-1990 season.
For his part, Udinese failed to return to the winning streak and scored his seventh match without a win in the league, after he also bid farewell to the local cup competition at the hands of Montsa, the newcomer to the top flight.
And after he was a surprise at the start of the season and was a stone's throw from the lead about a month ago, he is now in eighth place with 24 points.
At the “Diego Armando Maradona” stadium, the match seemed within reach of Naples from the start, so the landlords opened the scoring in the fifteenth minute, when Elmas converted a cross with his right hand into the penalty area, and Osimhen raised his head to her and settled it in the net.
According to the "Opta" sports statistics network, Osimhen, with this goal, hit the net for the eighth time with a header since the beginning of the year 2022, noting that no one is better than him in the five major leagues except Tottenham striker Harry Kane with nine header goals.
After another 15 minutes, Napoli strengthened its lead when Osimhen played a ball with his heel in the middle of the field to the Mexican international striker Hirving Losano, who made a quick counterattack, and passed it through to Jelinsky, who set it up in front of him inside the penalty area and hit it with a wonderful power to the left of goalkeeper Marco Silvestri (31). .
Napoli continued its brilliance at the start of the second half, scoring a third goal when Diamond received a perfect through-pass from Cameroonian Andre-Frank Zambo Angisa, entered the penalty area, dodged the defenders and hit the net (58).
Udinese rose up against its host about ten minutes before the end of the match, and scored the goal of reducing the difference with a powerful and beautiful shot from Nestorovsky (79), then the guests returned to score a second goal that almost turned things upside down, when Samardjic hit goalkeeper Alex Merritt (82), but That uprising was not complete and the three points went to Napoli.
And Napoli became the only second team in the history of the Italian league capable of winning at least 13 out of 15 matches played in one season, after Juventus, who achieved this in four seasons: 1949-1950, 2005-2006, 2013-2014, and 2018- 2019.
Sampdoria continued its disappointing results and suffered its fourth consecutive loss in the league, this time against Lecce with two clean goals scored by Lorenzo Colombo (45 + 1) and Zambian Lamic Banda (83).
Bologna also regained its balance after its humiliating loss to Inter 1-6 in the last stage, and defeated its guest Sassuolo 3-0.
The stage ends on Sunday with matches between Atalanta and Inter, Roma with Turin, Monza with Salernitana, and Verona with Spezia.