The Scudetto race reopens. Genoa's double comeback slows down Napoli. Inter are only one point behind
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Everything else is boredom.
Antonio Conte had said this on the eve of Napoli-Genoa to emphasise that the only thing that really counts in football is victory, the final goal. The Scudetto, in short. That everything else is barroom talk worth little or nothing.
Woe betide the poor Count. Boredom indeed! After what happened at the Maradona, with this mocking 2-2, caught by the hair by the Genoans with six minutes to go, Napoli plunged back into a white-hot championship final. A final with a thrill to be rewritten because Inter, victorious from the downpour in Turin (0-2), are back on their heels, just one point behind the leaders: Napoli 78, Inter 77. With Inzaghi's breath on Conte's neck, who now, with two days to go, will have little time to get bored. Starting with the next game with Parma and then the last at home with Cagliari. "We've lost a bonus," Conte said with a thread in his voice and a lot of anger in his eyes. "We built a lot, but we were not precise in the details"-.
The devil is in the details, admonishes an old English proverb. After so many calculations, so many strategies, into the fight for the Scudetto slipped a Mexican, Joao Vasquez, who with a dunk almost in extremis nailed Napoli to a draw that put everything into question.
That's football, baby! , one has to say thinking that Napoli had taken an early lead with a powerful goal from Lukaku, skilful in exploiting a precise assist from McTominay. And not even Genoa's momentary equaliser (Meret's own goal on Ahnor's header) had destabilised the Parthenopeans, who in the 64th minute had taken the lead again with a splendid move by Raspadori, again well served by MacTominay.



