Serie A: Napoli again slips up, with Nicola Venezia wins their first victory

A Venezia completely transformed by the Nicola treatment beat Napoli and won the first three points of the season, with a goal from Adams and a masterful performance from Stankovic who rejected the impossible, including a penalty from De Bruyne. For Allegri's team comes the third stop in the first seven days of the championship, the second consecutive after the reverse this week in the Champions League.

Nicola changes practically nothing compared to the defeat in Bergamo which was fatal to Stroppa. The only news is Haps who on the left wins the run-off with Sagrado to replace the injured Correia. Allegri relies on the incursions of the newfound McTominay to support Lucca together with Giovane. The bench is literally golden with De Bruyne, Hoylund, Lang and Anguissa. Empty scoreboard in the first half hour with Venezia buttoned up and committed to stemming the haemorrhage of goals from the first outings of the season: the only shot was a weak right-footed shot in the 8th minute from a disoriented Adams. In the 30th minute the opportunity comes for Napoli and comes from a corner with Rhahmani who collects a rebound and kicks a shot from a few steps away. Haps sacrifices himself and saves a safe goal two steps from the line.

The guests persist: in the 34th minute Giovane creates panic on the left and serves Lucca with an assist on the kiss, but the center forward "misses" the ball from an excellent position. We start again without changes and in the 3rd minute the Azzurri come close to scoring with a nice combination between Lucca and Beukema, with Giovane but missing the connection by centimeters. On the reverse, Venezia takes the lead: in the 4th minute Rrahmani clears a header, Adams takes possession of the ball and unleashes a right-footed shot that hits Meret. Allegri immediately resorts to the big names on the bench: De Bruyne, Hojlund and Alisson come in for Gilmour, Giovane and Lucca. It is Alisson himself who creates panic on the left: his assist for Hojlund just asks to be pushed towards goal, but the former Juan Jesus recovers and half a meter from the line saves an already scored goal for a corner. The game was played with only one goal: in the 22nd minute Hojlund appeared in front of Stankovic and Moreno knocked him out. De Bruyne goes to the spot but the Serbian goalkeeper hypnotizes him and blocks the right-footed low shot.

Napoli are exposed to the counterattack and in the 25th minute Adams puts the newly substitute Rrahmani in front of Meret, but the shot is not irresistible and the goalkeeper rejects it. The guests pressed, but Stankovic was having a day of grace and in the 39th minute he flew to block Lobotka's shot from the edge of the corner which was destined for the top corner. In the 88th minute Alisson tries with a counter-ball shot, but the Venezia goalkeeper is still reactive. The Brazilian again shoots with precision in injury time, Stankovic stretches out and with his fingertips seals the first success for the lagoon players with Penzo literally going crazy with joy.