{"id":11868,"date":"2023-02-06T00:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11868"},"modified":"2023-02-06T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:28:04","slug":"osimhen-hits-brace-in-napoli-win-over-spezia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11868","title":{"rendered":"Rampaging Osimhen Hits Brace In Napoli Win Over Spezia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia were again the stars of the show for Napoli as the Serie A leaders won 3-0 at Spezia to extend their advantage to a whopping 16 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wing wizard Kvaratskhelia put Napoli ahead from the penalty spot two minutes after the break on the Italian Riviera before Osimhen netted twice, taking his league tally to 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nigeria forward Osimhen pounced on a defensive error to double Napoli\u2019s lead in the 68th minute and five minutes later rolled home an easy finish after Mattia Caldara passed straight to Kvaratskhelia on the edge of his own area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAll the victories are important, we need to keep the momentum and try to win all games,\u201d said Osimhen to Sky in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is not going to be easy of course, Serie A is a very competitive league and we have to be on top of our game. We go back, we prepare for the next game, that is the most important thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Osimhen ended the day on top of the world after beginning it going into to the stands at the Stadio Picco to apologise to a woman fan who hit with a off-target pre-match practice shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 23-year-old hugged the woman and posed for selfies before going on to continue Napoli\u2019s unstoppable looking title charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI think she was looking at her phone, the ball hit her in the face and I felt so sorry, as I didn\u2019t mean to do that,\u201d added Osimhen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI had to show my appreciation and say sorry for that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Luciano Spalletti\u2019s side will be at least 13 points clear come the end of the day as their closest challengers Inter Milan host ailing champions AC Milan in Sunday\u2019s late match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Spezia stay 17th, five points above Verona who are just inside the relegation zone and host Lazio on Monday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia were again the stars of the show for Napoli as the Serie A leaders won 3-0 at Spezia to extend their advantage to a whopping 16 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5397,4738,6414,2400],"class_list":["post-11868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-napoli","tag-seria-a","tag-spezia","tag-victor-osimhen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}