Draw shrinks Napoli lead over Inter to one point

Napoli's Serie A rubric hopes suffered a precocious setback connected Sunday erstwhile they were held to a 2-2 gully astatine location against Genoa, mounting up a thrilling play finale with Inter Milan conscionable 1 constituent behind.

Napoli stay apical with 78 points, holding a slim pb implicit Inter, who won 2-0 astatine Torino earlier connected Sunday, with 2 rounds remaining.

Scott McTominay delivered a cleanable walk into the container wherever Romelu Lukaku got escaped of his marker earlier guiding his changeable into the bottommost country to springiness Napoli the pb successful the 15th minute.

This visitors came adjacent to scoring an equaliser connected the half-hour people arsenic Andrea Pinamonti's header from a escaped footwear deed the apical of the crossbar.

Genoa equalised successful the 32nd infinitesimal erstwhile Honest Ahanor's header deed the bar, with Napoli keeper Alex Meret initially parrying it into the post, lone for the rebound to bounce disconnected his assemblage and into the nett for an ain goal.

The sombre temper astatine Diego Armando Maradona Stadium lifted successful the 64th infinitesimal erstwhile Giacomo Raspadori drilled a screamer from adjacent range, restoring Napoli's pb and sending the blue-and-white supporters into a frenzy.

However, a Johan Vasquez header six minutes from clip silenced the assemblage arsenic the realisation deed that the rubric contention had been blown wide unfastened again.

McTominay urged fans to enactment calm, reminding them that Napoli inactive clasp a constrictive pb successful the rubric race.

"We person to enactment calm, this is not the clip to panic," McTominay told DAZN. "Genoa are a beardown team, they scored 2 bully goals and we person to look astatine what we did incorrect there."

Napoli volition sojourn Parma adjacent earlier finishing the play by hosting Cagliari, portion Inter volition adjacent play Lazio astatine location earlier travelling to Como for their last match.

"We've got to support the aforesaid cognition we've had truthful far, due to the fact that this is what got america here, truthful support going with the aforesaid strength and hard enactment that we've done each azygous day," Raspadori added.