In the 17th round of Serie A, Roma hosted Napoli. In the first half, Bovey missed a good chance to score, and Mourinho was hot against the opposing player, and the deadlock was never broken. In the second half, Politano was sent off for a retaliatory foul, Pellegrini came off the bench, Osimhen was also sent off for 2 yellows and 1 red, and Lukaku scored another goal in stoppage time. In the end, the defending champion of Serie A, Napoli, lost the game, and received 2 red cards because of an unbalanced mentality, 9 played 11, and lost 0-2!
From the very beginning of the game, the scene was quite hot!Coupled with the referee's repeated inaction, the players on both sides moved more and more, and even the Roma coach Mourinho on the sidelines also started a confrontation with Napoli player Kvaratskhelia!Overall, Roma dominated the first half, in the 19th minute, Lukaku took the ball back in the box, Bovey met the ball and volleyed, the ball hit the crossbar, and in the 21st minute, Belotti burst into the box and passed to the goal, Bovey wasted the opportunity to score again. In the first half, the referee had already shown four yellow cards, but the situation was not controlled.
In the second half, the physical confrontation between the players on both sides was still fierce, playing the feeling of the Premier League, and after the physical confrontation again and again, the mentality of the players also changed, in the 65th minute of the game, Napoli quickly counterattacked, Roma player Zalewski pulled Politano from behind, Politano exploded in the first mentality, and kicked Zalewski in retaliation was directly shown a red card by the referee, and Napoli began to play one less. Ten minutes later, Napoli had conceded a goal with one man in hand, and El Shaarawy fired a shot from the edge of the box and Manuel Pellegrini turned and volleyed home to finally break the deadlock at home.
Then in the 86th minute of the game, Napoli was sent off again, Osimhen brought down Shaarawy from behind and received a yellow card, because Osimhen had already carried a yellow card, so Osimhen was sent off for 2 yellows and 1 red, and Napoli only had 9 people left. In the sixth minute of stoppage time, Roma counterattacked quickly, Lukaku calmly beat a defender in the penalty area, and Roma beat defending champions Napoli 2-0. After all three points, Roma overtook Napoli to move up to sixth place in Serie A with 28 points.
In the whole game, the referee on duty showed a total of 11 yellow cards + 2 red cards, and Napoli was sent off 2 people!It's okay to be hot, and reasonable physical confrontation is understandable, but retaliatory hurtful actions are very undesirable.