Leaders Napoli and Milan, the defending champions, are preparing for their expected position on Tuesday in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, with two disappointing draws on Saturday against Hellas Verona, 0-0, and Bologna, 1-1, respectively, in the thirtieth stage of the Italian Football League .

Napoli played the meeting with shaky spirits after losing in the middle of the week at Milan 0-1 in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, to fall for the second time against the Lombardy team within a few days after the humiliating loss in front of him at his stadium, “Diego Armando Maradona” by 4-0 in the stage before last. .

Despite this stumbling in a match during which he regained the services of his Nigerian top scorer Victor Osmihan, it does not seem that anyone is able to stand in the way of Napoli achieving the dream of winning the title for the first time since 1990, as it is 14 points ahead of Lazio II, eight stages before the end of the season.

Coach Luciano Spalletti started the match against a team that had not won any away matches this season and had won only once in the past seven stages with a modified squad in order to rest its stars in preparation for Wednesday.

And Spalletti kept the Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia on the bench, which witnessed the return of Osimhen after recovering from an injury during his participation with his country in the international match window at the end of last month, which kept him out of the last three matches, two of them against Milan when the southern team lost 4-0 on the second of this month in League and then Tuesday in the Champions League.

Spalletti confirmed that Osimhen, who entered in the last quarter of an hour, will start Tuesday, saying, "He will start, yes. Osimhen has this physical strength and speed... He can protect the ball, use his head or change his speed. He has multiple alternatives. He is now a hero for these fans." So there is always a wave of enthusiasm about him."

Matteo Politano and Mexican Hrving Losano and Jacomo Raspadori were unable to invest the field advantage of the southern team, so the first half ended in a goalless draw with the most dangerous chances for Verona through Kevin Lasagna, who threatened Alex Merritt's goal more than once with his long shots.

In the second half, Spalletti found himself forced to push Kfaratskhelia and Poland's Piotr Zielinski instead of Losano and Germany's Diego Dime (64) in search of deciphering Verona's defensive code, but without success, to then pay Osimhen instead of Raspadori (73).
The Nigerian was close to giving his team the goal of progress, but luck hindered him after his missile hit the crossbar (83), before Verona got the chance to decide in stoppage time from the Belgian Cyril Ngong alone, but he toppled the ball by the right post, although he was alone in the face of Merrill. (90+1).

In the end, the southern team faltered for the third time in the last four matches (losing the League and the Champions League against Milan, and Saturday’s draw with Verona, in exchange for a 2-1 victory over Lecce), and settled for the third draw of the season against a team struggling to survive, as it ranks eighteenth by three points. Points from the safety zone.

In turn, Milan was mentally and technically preoccupied with facing Napoli on Tuesday, so he paid the price and threatened to give up the final fourth place that qualifies for the main continental competition by stumbling again, this time in front of its host Bologna 1-1.

It was difficult for coach Stefano Pioli to play the Bologna match with a starting line-up in light of the difficulty of the task awaiting his team on Tuesday, so he started with a backup line-up that missed all the ten field players who faced the southern team in the middle of the week, and French goalkeeper Mike Manian was the only player from the starting line-up.

In the end, Milan contented itself with a second draw in a row and an orphan victory from the last six matches in “Serie A”, but luck helped him and he remained in the last fourth place qualifying for the Champions League thanks to the service of Monza, who is owned by his former president Silvio Berlusconi, as the newcomer won the League of Lights. Over Lombard's neighbor Inter 1-0 in "San Siro".

Only 33 seconds passed until Milan found itself behind with a goal scored by Nicolas Sansone after a cross from Austrian Stefan Bosch, but the Lombard team equalized just before the end of the first half through Tomazo Bubiga (40).

In an interview with the "Dazon" network, Pioli bemoaned the bad start of his team, saying, "We should not have started in this way. To concede at such an early age is unacceptable for a team of our level."

"After that, we took over the initiative. We played well and didn't allow Bologna to play their usual style but we didn't make the most of the chances we had."
Despite the entry of players such as the Portuguese Rafael Liao, the Spaniard Ibrahim Dias and the Brazilian Junior Messias, Milan was unable to reach the net of its guest, who kept his unbeaten record for the fifth consecutive stage, raising his score to 44 points in eighth place.

After five consecutive stages without any victory, the Inter fans believed that the victory in the Portuguese stronghold of Benfica 2-0 in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals would give his team the necessary moral push to return to the right track and overtake its guest Montsa, but coach Simone Inzaghi’s team suffered its eleventh defeat. With a goal scored by the owner of the land with a header by Luca Caldirola after a corner kick (78), the "Nerazzori" suffered its third defeat at home this season.