Napoli recovered after three consecutive defeats in all competitions, beating its guest Bologna 1-0 on Sunday in the fourth stage of the Italian Football League.
Napoli owes its Slovakian midfielder Stanislav Lobotka, who scored the winning goal in the 66th minute at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in southern Italy.
Napoli raised its score to six points in ninth place by achieving its second victory in the league, after the first over Genoa (2-0) in the opener, while Bologna’s score froze at one point from a draw and three defeats in seventeenth place.
Coach Massimiliano Allegri's team put an end to a series of three consecutive defeats domestically and in Europe, which came against Como (1-2) and Inter (2-3) in the last two stages of the league, and against England's Arsenal in the Champions League (0-1).
Referee Kevin Bonacina canceled a goal for Bologna headed by Belgian Artur Tiat due to offside, after returning to the video assistant referee (VAR).
Lobotka gave Napoli the winning points through outstanding teamwork and a series of passes between Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, and substitute Costantino Favasoli, who played a cross from the right side, and the Slovakian followed it with his right from the outskirts of the six-yard area to the goal (66).
Sunday's matches will conclude with Juventus hosting Sassuolo.
English star Harry Kane, Bayern Munich striker, scored a goal, giving his team a valuable victory over its host Elversberg, newly promoted to the German Premier League (Bundesliga), with a score of 2-1 in the third round, on Sunday.
Bayern Munich, the defending champion, ended the first half ahead with a goal by its young player, Lennart Karl, 26 minutes into the match, which was held in a very small stadium, with a capacity of about 14,000 spectators.
In the second half, the hosts equalized with Maurice Krattenmacher's goal with a wonderful shot in the 61st minute.
But Harry Kane, the top scorer in the German League last season, tipped the balance in his team's favor with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area, which landed in the net in the 72nd minute.
With this victory, Bayern Munich overcomes the setback of its goalless draw with Schalke in the last round, raising its score to 7 points in fourth place, while Elversberg suffered its first loss, freezing its score at 6 points and falling to sixth place.
In the next round, Bayern Munich will host Union Berlin on Friday, at the Allianz Arena, while Elversberg will face off against Schalke on Sunday.
The Bavarian giant took the initiative to put pressure on its opponent in an attempt to score an early goal, but its attempts in the first quarter-hour, through Harry Kane, Karl and Tom Bischoff, were not enough to score the net.
On the other hand, Elversberg entered the atmosphere of the match after 17 minutes, when David Mokwa shot a ball with his left hand near the post, and two minutes later his teammate Noah Darvish shot a ball outside the goal.
Bayern's attempts continued, as Kane and Dayot Upamecano missed two chances, before Moroccan Ismail Sibari passed from the left side and played a cross, which Lennart-Karl met directly with his left into the net, giving the visitors the lead.
The pace of play was relatively calm until Al-Sibari shot a ball near the post in the 38th minute, while Cole Campbell scored a goal against Bayern goalkeeper Jonas Orbig in the 45th minute, but the referee indicated that Darvish was offside.
Bayern rushed offensively in the second half, threatening their opponent's goal with two attempts by Nathaniel Brown and Harry Kane.
But the hosts equalized with a goal against the run of play, with a perfect shot from Maurice Kratnemkhayer, which landed in the left clip in the 61st minute.
Four minutes later, Bayern coach Vincent Kompany rushed to revitalize his team with four substitutions at once, bringing in Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Jamal Musiala and Luis Diaz in place of Brown, Bischoff, Karl and Al-Sibari.
A few minutes after arriving, Luis Diaz almost scored a goal had it not been for a distinguished save from Elversberg's goalkeeper, before Harry Kane broke up the clash with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area, giving Bayern the lead again after 72 minutes.
The English star celebrated his first goal in the German League this season after missed attempts by his teammates Josip Stanisic, Michael Oliseh and Aleksandar Pavlovic.
The two teams exchanged offensive attempts in the last quarter-hour, with Bayern relatively dangerous, who almost added a third goal through Pavlovic and Kimmich, whose shot was blocked by Elversberg's goalkeeper in the 86th minute, while Elversberg's reaction was not sufficient to produce a positive result after the match extended into 3 minutes of stoppage time.
Erling Haaland, the star of the Manchester City team, expressed his happiness at his team’s victory over its arch-neighbor and host Manchester United, despite the numerical deficiency that his club suffered during the match, noting at the same time that his Italian colleague Gianluigi Donnarumma, the team’s goalkeeper, resembles a “wolf.”
Manchester City defied the numerical shortage, and continued its wonderful start in the English Premier League football championship this season, after achieving a valuable and well-deserved 1-0 victory over Manchester United, at the top of the matches of the fourth stage of the prestigious competition, at “Old Trafford” stadium, the stronghold of the team nicknamed “The Red Devils.”
Manchester City, which played its first derby against United without Spanish coach Pep Guardiola in 10 years, suffered from a numerical deficiency in its ranks, following the controversial expulsion of its star Phil Foden in the 23rd minute, following a joint ball with Bruno Fernandes, the Manchester United player.
The only goal of the match came from Haaland in the 60th minute, while Manchester United players were unable to achieve an equalizer during the remaining time of the match, especially after the brilliance of Donnarumma, who skillfully made a solo save from Cameroonian Brian Mbeumo, the United player, in the last minute of stoppage time for the match.
The Norwegian star said after the match in statements to Sky Sports: “It is a new experience for me to achieve victory while we are playing with ten players. "It's honestly amazing."
Haaland talked about Donnarumma's amazing save to prevent Mbeumo from scoring the equaliser, and said: “Having this (wolf) in goal gives you great confidence. He kind of looks like a wolf. "He's a crazy person, but he's also a player who decides matches."
With this result, the score of Manchester City, which is seeking to regain the title that was absent from its coffers in the past two seasons, rose to 12 points, achieving the full score so far, after winning all of its first four matches in the competition this season, occupying second place on goal difference behind Arsenal (the defending champion), which sits at the top with the same balance of points.
On the other hand, Manchester United, which has been unable to win the title since the 2012/2013 season, continued its disappointing start in the competition, after its score froze at 4 points in thirteenth place.
