Napoli moved top of Serie A following a routine 2-0 fetch over Monza at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
First-half dreams from Matteo Politano and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia did the trick for Antonio Conte’s facet, who leapfrogged Juventus to the summit of the desk.
The hosts broke via in the twenty 2nd minute as Politano rounded off a sturdy stoop by drilling a low shot past Stefano Turati in the Monza draw.
The visitors had been then victims of their comprise downfall as Napoli doubled their lead 11 minutes later.
Turati jog out from the back went straight to Frank Anguissa, who then blended with Scott McTominay to space up Kvaratskhelia to volley residence.
Though Monza improved in the 2nd half, they had been unable to if truth be told fret Napoli, who held out for the three ingredients and their fourth neat sheet of the promoting campaign.
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Files Debrief: Politano suits Zapata and Dybala
Napoli are back at the Serie A summit for the first time since the rest day of the Scudetto-winning season of 2022-23.
Politano got the ball rolling as he grew to develop into one among handiest three gamers to salvage in every of the closing 10 Serie A seasons, along with Duvan Zapata and Paulo Dybala.
Kvaratskhelia doubled the lead with what used to be his fifth bid draw involvement (three dreams, two assists) of the promoting campaign, a tally handiest bettered by AC Milan’s Christian Pulisic (six).
The Partenopei fetch now gone 388 minutes with out conceding a draw, and fetch recorded three successive neat sheets in Serie A for the first time since February 2023.
