Zambo Anguissa Makes Losing Return For Napoli

Zambo Anguissa made his way in at the 63rd minute, and his Napoli side went on to be thrown under the bus with a 70th minute goal from Patrick Cutrone.

It was the latter’s first game in 5 Napoli outings, but it didn’t go exactly to script.

Patrick Cutrone’s bizarre winner with 20 minutes remaining in Naples fired promoted Empoli seventh and hit Napoli’s bid for a first title since the days of Diego Maradona.

Cutrone rose highest for a corner and his flick flew at Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa, who minutes after his return from injury headed his clearance into the back of Cutrone’s head and then watched the ball fly back into his own goal.

It was an unfortunate way to lose for Napoli who had 30 shots, struck the bar through Eljif Elmas in the first half and had a Juan Jesus goal ruled out for offside nine minutes before Cutrone’s winner.

Napoli held top spot before last weekend’s matches but have now also been overtaken by Atalanta who moved third with their 2-1 win at Verona.

Napoli travel to Milan next weekend hoping to not fall further behind the pacesetters with key players either out or only just returning from injury.