(AFP) - The upcoming confrontation between Udinese and its guest Atalanta ended in favor of Napoli, with a 2-2 draw in a meeting during which the guests advanced with two clean goals, Sunday, in the ninth stage of the Italian Football League , which allowed the southern team to take the lead by defeating its host Cremonese 4. -1.

Atalanta seemed on its way to its sixth victory in the last seven stages and the seventh this season without any defeat, after advancing with two clean goals, which would have allowed it to temporarily lead by three points from Naples.

But Udinese, who played the match on the back of five consecutive victories, came back from afar and saved a point to avoid a second defeat for the season, after it received an opening 2-4 against Milan, the defending champion, on August 13.

Atalanta finished the first half ahead with a goal from the Nigerian-English Ademola Lookman after a pass from Colombian Luis Muriel (36), before the latter added the second goal from a penalty kick that he snatched himself from Destiny Odoji (56).

Spaniard Gerard Deulofeu narrowed the difference to the landowner in the 67th minute with a free kick, then Argentine Nehuen Perez succeeded in snatching a tie with a header after a corner kick (78), giving his team its twentieth point in third place, on goal difference against Milan, the defending champion, while Atalanta temporarily topped before To give it up after Napoli's away win over Cremonese.

"It's a very important point for us," Peres told the "Dazon" broadcasting network. "It is very important to collect points at home. The match became different after we were two goals behind, but we played well."

Atalanta will face very intense tests from now until the league stops due to the Qatar World Cup, which starts on the 20th of next month, as it faces Lazio (stage 11), Napoli (stage 13) and Inter (the last 15th stage before the league stopped on November 13). .

Atalanta coach Jean-Piero Gasperini, who was celebrating his 300th match with La Dia, said that his team should be "happy with this result, even though it was achieved at a time when the match was in our hands by advancing with two deserved goals."

He continued, "The free kick scored by Deulofeu was a big boost for Udinese, and we were unable to maintain our level despite the changes we made."

In Cremona, Napoli continued its wonderful season by achieving, for the first time in its history, eight consecutive victories in all competitions, including three in the Champions League, and the last of which was in the middle of the week away from home, with a sweeping result over Dutch Ajax 6-1, by defeating the injured Cremonese 4-1.

The result does not reflect the course of the match, as coach Luciano Spalletti's team waited the last quarter of an hour to advance and stoppage time to finally decide the result.

The southern team started the match well, after taking the lead in the 26th minute from a penalty kick executed by Matteo Politano, which was grabbed by the brilliant Georgian newcomer, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

The result remained the same until the end of the first half, but Cremonese started the second by equalizing through the Nigerian-Belgian Cyril Desire (47), then withstood his guest until the 76th minute before bowing in front of the header of Argentine substitute Giovanni Simeone, who received the ball from Portuguese Mario Roy.

Diego Simeone's son, Spanish coach Atletico Madrid, raised his score to four goals in nine matches he played with the southern team since he came to him this summer from Verona, including only one as a starter.

Simeone touched on his life in Naples to the "Dazon" network, saying, "I feel a bit like one of them. I'm a bit Argentinian and a bit Italian," adding, "What matters in football is the quality you present at the time you play. There are a lot of times when I didn't play." A lot of minutes and I did well, times I played a lot of minutes without doing anything."

And when the match was taking its last breath, Naples finally won with a third goal for the other Mexican substitute, Hirving Losano, after another pass from Kfaratskhelia (3 + 90), before the other Uruguayan substitute, Matias Oliveira, added the fourth with a header after a corner kick (5 + 90).

Argentine Paulo Dybala continued his brilliance with his new team, Roma, by scoring his fifth goal in the Capital Club shirt, contributing to compensating for his fall Thursday at home in the “Europa League” against Spanish Real Betis 1-2 by defeating 2-1, but the joy was not complete because he left. injured.
And after opening the scoring early through Englishman Chris Smalling (6), Roma found himself at the same distance from his guest after Brazilian Gabriel Streveza equalized (39), despite the numerical shortage in his team as a result of the expulsion of Dane Morten Helmand (23).
But Dybala returned the team of Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho to the front at the beginning of the second half (48) before he was injured after executing the penalty kick.
With his sixth victory, Roma raised its tally to 19 points, temporarily in fifth place, at the expense of its neighbor Lazio, who will visit Fiorentina on Monday.