It is not easy to explain the end of the game between Naples and Milan, but the only certainty is that Spaletti’s team took advantage of the Rossoneri bad game to get the three points, equalize them in the table and do a small favor to Inter Milan , which is already a leader four points above its two pursuers.
Elmas’s goal was enough just to start the game, at the start of a corner kick that beat Tonali too easily (5 ‘) for Napoli to take the game. And it was fair, because Milan proposed between little and nothing. Brahim did not shine between the lines and that caused a malnourished team in three quarters of the field, with a flat and horizontal game that Napoli knew how to defend compactly.
Zambo Anguissa acted as a stopper and Spaletti proposed a game of not breaking lines other than to complete a transition, but without generating inferiorities behind. That’s why Milan never managed to catch the opposing defense off guard. With almost no notable chances other than a deflected shot from Florenzi and Giroud, Pioli’s side ended the last minutes overturned with lateral centers, but without scratching shots. It was only on one convoluted play that the ball ended up at Kessie’s feet and Kessie drove it deep into the net. It was the 90 ‘, moment of controversy because the VAR called the referee for a possible offside and it was. It was decreed that Giroud, lying on the ground with half his body in a forward position, annoyed the defender in his attempt to clear before Kessié’s goal. The rest was history. All three points went to Naples.