Series A Wresters Venezia frustrated title candidates Napoli in a 0-0 draw in Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo on Sunday.
Napoli knew that a victory would take them the top of the rankings before it was confronted with Atalanta later in the day.
Nevertheless, the Antonio Conte team could not get the job done and instead had to settle for a point, giving Inter the opportunity to move three clearly at the top, while Atalanta level with the Azzurri would withdraw with a victory.
Both parties had opportunities to score in a hectic opening spell, in which Napoli's Giacomo Raspadori hit the post, while Venezia attacker Daniel Fila shot directly to visit goalkeeper Alex Meret from a promising position.
Napoli started to control the game, while the first half was wore and Venezia stopper Ionut Radu Alert had to be to keep the efforts of Raspadori, Romelu Lukaku and Scott McTominay out.
The home team almost scored against the run of playing in the 42nd minute, but the low shot of Fila was prevented from crossing the line by Amir Rrahmani's brilliant last ditch block.
Napoli increased the pressure after the interval, in which Matteo Politan pulled Saves from Radu twice, although Venezia almost took a winner in the stopping time, with the powerful effort of Nicolussi Caviglia from the edge of the box stored by Meret.
Venezia, who has no longer won in the competition since the beating of Cagliari with 2-1 in December, remains in 19th place in the table on 20 points, five drift of safety.
8 – Antonio Conte has earned eight points in his last seven league games; In #Seriea, in a series of seven games in one season, the worst result has been with Atalanta (four in that case). Difficulty.
– OPTAPAOLO (@OPTAPAOLO) March 16, 2025
Data Debrief: attracts expensive for Napoli
Napoli has now signed five of their last seven league games, after he won seven of their previous seven. Their only victory in this run came the last time, against Fiorentina, and Conte hopes for a change in fortunes after the international break.
In the meantime, Venezia has signed four games in a row in the Serie A for the first time since March -UKril 1962 (a line of four) – although they need victories if they want to get away from danger.
They are one of the two teams, together with Empoli, who are still having a Series A victory from 2025; In general, the Venetians did not win in 12 games (D7 L5).
Venezia owed Radu, with their goalkeeper who made seven saves, where Napoli create opportunities with a value of 1.54 expected goals for the 0.73 of the hosts.
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