Romelu Lukaku helped himself to a aim and two assists to ship Napoli high of the Serie A desk with a cushty 4-0 away triumph in opposition to Cagliari on Sunday.
Lukaku teed up Giovanni Di Lorenzo and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia earlier than discovering the again of the web, with Alessandro Buongiorno confirming the win in harm time.
Antonio Conte’s facet took the lead within the 18th minute when Di Lorenzo noticed his effort deflect off Yerry Mina and past the clutches of Simone Scuffet.
The guests needed to wait till the second half to double their benefit, with Lukaku sending Kvaratskhelia on his means earlier than ending on the close to submit.
Kvaratskhelia then turned supplier for Lukaku to brush dwelling Napoli’s third after Scuffet’s misplaced go out from the again was ruthlessly punished.
Additional gloss was added to the scoreline in second-half stoppage time when Buongiorno headed dwelling David Neres’ inviting corner-kick.
3 – David #Neres is the first participant to offer an help in every of his first 3 matches (v Bologna, Parma and Cagliari) in #SerieA since this type of knowledge has been obtainable (since 2004-05). Magnanimous.#CagliariNapoli pic.twitter.com/oXbwL3b0zr
— OptaPaolo (@OptaPaolo) September 15, 2024
Information Debrief: Lukaku repaying Conte religion
Lukaku has scored and supplied a couple of help in a single match solely thrice in his profession within the high 5 European Leagues, now doing so twice beneath Conte.
The Belgian ended the encounter with an anticipated objectives (xG) tally of 0.77, the very best of anybody within the Napoli staff, whereas additionally taking his tally to 2 objectives in two video games for his new membership.
Brazilian Neres, in the meantime, grew to become the primary participant to offer an help in every of his first three matches in Serie A, with Napoli’s new recruits impressing.
