Napoli spurned the chance to return to the top of Serie A after suffering a stunning 2-1 loss against Como. (More Football News)
With title rivals Inter having won on Saturday, the pressure was on Antonio Conte's team to get thꩲe three points required to return to the summit at Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia on Sunday.
Instead, Napoli's winless streak in the league extended to four matches as Assane Diao thu💎mped in a second-half winner for the hosts – coached by Cesc Fabregas – on the b🐟anks of Lake Como.
Napoli got off to a nightmare start when Kosovan centre-back Amir Rrahmani giཧfted the lead to Como in the seventh minute by sending Matteo Politano's throw-in into his own net, with goalkeeper Alex Meret well off his line.
Como's lead 🃏lasted only seven minutes, though𓂃, as Giacomo Raspadori capitalised on some sloppy defending to slot beyond Jean Butez.
Yet with the match ebbing towards a draw,꧅ Diao drilled in from the edge of the area after taking in Nico Paz's pass, securing a memorꦦable victory for 13th-place Como.
Data Debrief: A win to savour
This was just Como's second win over Napoli in Serie 𝐆A, with their previous such victory coming wꦉay back in November 1952.
Como had facedꦦ Napoli 18 times since then in Italy's top flight, losing on 14 occasions and drawing the other four 🌄matches.
Fabregas' team did not create much – indee🔯d, Como attempted only two shots during the first half, and they finished with an e🌼xpected goals value of 0.56.
Napoli, though, were far from at their best, creating just 1.09 xG, while forward Romelu Lukaku managed just eight touches and one shot before he was taken off just af💫ter the hour.
Diao settled the contest, scoring for a third league match running for the first time in his top-flight career, a🎃s Como backed up last week's impressive victory over Fi🔯orentina with an even better result.
