{"id":491777,"date":"2025-03-30T16:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491777"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:55:28","slug":"napoli-beat-milan-2-1-to-close-the-gap-to-the-serie-a-leader-inter","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/napoli-beat-milan-2-1-to-close-the-gap-to-the-leader-in-serie-a-inter\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli beat Milan 2-1 to close the gap to the Serie A leader Inter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli won a crucial match against Milan with 2-1 at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona and is again only 3 points behind Inter as the other Milano team won 2-1 against Udinese earlier today, and the fight between these 2 teams for the Scudetto continues.<\/p>\n<p>The clash started in the best way possible for the home side as Matteo Politano received a phenomenal pass from Giovanni Di Lorenzo after only 2 minutes, and the forward scored with a shot into the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n<p>The fans in Naples didn\u2019t have to wait long before they saw their team score again. In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> minute, the team\u2019s superstar Romelu Lukaku doubled the lead with another shot in the bottom right corner as the club finished the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half with a 2-goal lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lukaku hits 4\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3 career goals as Napoli \ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude40\ud835\ude41\ud835\ude50\ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude40 to give up on their Scudetto dream \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udcad <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tPVuMAI6PT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tPVuMAI6PT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1906447720459784423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Santiago Gimenez had a fantastic chance to score for Milan from a penalty, but his shot was saved by the goalkeeper. Despite that, Rossoneri scored in the 84<sup>th<\/sup> minute thanks to Luka Jovic, who entered the pitch 4 minutes earlier, but they failed to score another goal and Napoli secured the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Milan remain in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> place in Serie A after the defeat with 47 points \u2013 9 points behind the 4<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli won a crucial match against Milan with 2-1 at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona and is again only 3 points behind Inter as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491779,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17381,17590,17860],"news_category":[138,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17861,390,449],"acf":{"announce":"Conte\u2019s side won and is back within 3 points of the Serie A leaders.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491781,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491777\/revisions\/491781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491777"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491777"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}