Hapless Sassuolo have four goals disallowed on Napoli defeat
Hapless Sassuolo had several goals disallowed for offside, three of these following VAR reviews, in an unlucky 2-0 defeat by Napoli in Serie A in Saturday.
Elseid Hysaj put Napoli ahead in the eighth minute, the Albanian's primary goal for the club on the subject of his 193rd overall look, with a low shot from the edge of the penalty location.
Filip Djuricic had the ball found in the web for Sassuolo in the 32nd minute but the linesman flagged and it had been immediately disallowed for offside.
Four minutes later, Djuricic again thought he previously scored when he fired in the rebound after Hamed Junior Traore's shot was saved by David Ospina. But, after a long VAR analyze and with Napoli ready to kick off, the target was disallowed for offside against Traore.
Francesco Caputo had an objective chalked off two minutes following the restart, then it was Domenico Berardi's convert when his effort was eliminated for offside against Caputo who had played the ball to him.
In both cases, Napoli were waiting to restart when the goal was disallowed.
Matteo Politano hit the post late on for Napoli and Allan rubbed more salt into Sassuolo's wounds when he swept home the next from the edge of the area in stoppage time.
Napoli, who've qualified for the Europa League seeing as Coppa Italia winners, stayed seventh with 59 points with Sassuolo eighth on 48.
Sassuolo coach Roberto De Zerbi didn't comment on the disallowed goals. "We did very well with and without the ball, but we needed even more conviction to end up with the three points," he said.
Napoli coach Gennaro Gattuso said his workforce deserved to win by more. "We produced nine chances and we should have been two or three up by halftime, so I can not be happy," he said.
"Considering what we create, we score inadequate and concede way too many."
"It isn't true that it had been a 50-50 game, I observed another game from the bench," he added. "Offside is section of the game and you can't compare our objective chances with Sassuolo's."
