NAPOLI starting XI (4-3-3): Meret, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Buongiorno, Olivera (subbed for Spinazzola), Anguissa, Gilmour (subbed for Raspadori), McTominay, Politano (subbed for Ngonge), Lukaku (subbed for Simeone), Kvaratskhelia (subbed for Neres)
Bench: Caprile, Contini, Juan Jesus, Marin, Zerbin, Mazzocchi
ATALANTA starting XI (3-4-1-2): Carnesecchi, Djimsiti, Hien, Kolasinac (subbed for Kossounou), Zappacosta (subbed for Bellanova), De Roon, Ederson, Ruggeri, Pasalic (subbed for Brescianini), De Ketelaere (subbed for Retegui), Lookman (subbed for Samardzic)
Bench: Rui Patricio, Rossi, Toloi, Godfrey, Sulemana, Cuadrado, Zaniolo, Palestra
Goals: Lookman 10’ 31’. Retegui 90+2’
Atalanta moved up to third, three points below Napoli.
Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini surprisingly opted to drop Mateo Retegui. It was reportedly because he wanted a more unpredictable attack against a Napoli defence that had kept clean sheets in six of their past seven matches and only conceded five goals all season.
Gasperini instead picked Ademola Lookman and Charles De Ketelaere in attack with Mario Pasalic behind them and that paid off almost immediately as Atalanta took the lead in the 10th minute.
A cross was cleared by Napoli but only as far as the edge of the area where it was put back in and De Ketelaere nodded it back for Lookman to slot into the near bottom corner.
Napoli almost levelled immediately, but Scott McTominay’s powerful effort crashed off the right post.
The Atalanta forwards combined again in the 31st as De Ketelaere raced down the right and squirmed between two players before passing across to Lookman, who slotted a hard shot into the far bottom corner.
Retegui was brought on for De Ketelaere with 14 minutes remaining and he volleyed a cross into the bottom right corner in stoppage time for his 11th goal in as many matches.
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