Napoli’s nightmare season continued on Sunday after crashing to a 3-0 defeat at Torino, whereas AC Milan consolidated their place in Serie A’s Champions League positions with a 3-0 win at Empoli. Livid Napoli followers launched flares onto the pitch on the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino throughout a humiliating loss for the troubled champions, who’ve sunk right down to ninth place. Last season’s historic Scudetto has now been forgotten as Napoli plunge deeper into disaster with every passing week, their third defeat in 4 matches in all competitions absolutely deserved after a shambolic show in Turin.

Without Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen, Walter Mazzerri’s facet failed to attain for the fourth straight match and are fully unrecognisable from the workforce which cruised to title glory final time period.

Napoli are a full 20 factors behind league leaders Inter Milan and are nearer to the relegation zone than the highest of the desk.

Antonio Sanabria acquired the ball rolling two minutes earlier than the break when he rolled residence from shut vary, and issues went from unhealthy to worse within the fiftieth minute when debutant Pasquale Mazzocchi was despatched off for a wild problem on Valentino Lazaro.

Mazzocchi, who signed from Salernitana on Friday, had solely been on the sphere for the reason that begin of the second half and two minutes later Nikola Vlasic doubled Torino’s lead with an excellent low strike from outdoors the realm.

Napoli have been in every single place and they need to have been three down simply after the hour mark when Sanabria hit the submit and Duvan Zapata by some means did not end on the rebound.

However Alessandro Buongiorno made certain of an emphatic victory within the 66th minute when he thumped a bullet header previous Pierluigi Gollini.

AC Milan cruise

A luxurious early strike from Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Olivier Giroud‘s thirty first minute penalty set third-placed Milan on the best way to a win which was sealed by Chaka Traore with two minutes remaining.

Missing a bunch of gamers to harm and the Africa Cup of Nations, Milan took benefit of their closest rivals for the highest 4 dropping factors.

Stefano Pioli’s workforce are six factors forward of fourth-placed Fiorentina who misplaced 1-0 at Sassuolo on Saturday, and an extra level in entrance of Bologna in fifth following their draw at Genoa.

Milan have had a bumpy marketing campaign riddled with accidents and questions over Pioli’s future however Sunday’s win was their fifth in six matches in all competitions.

“We went through a bit of a difficult period… We never listened to what other people were saying, we got down to hard work and that’s why we won today,” mentioned Theo Hernandez, who was once more deputising at centre-back.

France worldwide Hernandez is a buccaneering left-back by commerce however has been pressured to maneuver to the centre of defence by an harm disaster which has left Pioli with out Fikayo Tomori, Malick Thiaw and Pierre Kalulu.

Empoli keep second-from-bottom after failing to win for the seventh straight match, Aurelio Andreazzoli’s facet lacking seven first-team starters and no match for the rampant away facet.

“It’s in the difficult moments that you learn if people have given up on you, and that wasn’t the case here,” mentioned Pioli.

“When things don’t go well we stay together and we give each other a hand.”

Milan path metropolis rivals Inter by 9 factors and are 4 behind second-placed Juventus, who play Salernitana afterward Sunday.

Lazio warmed up for his or her midweek derby with Roma within the Italian Cup quarter-finals by profitable 2-1 at Udinese and transferring as much as sixth.

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