{"id":145057,"date":"2025-10-25T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:08:08","slug":"napoli-3-1-inter-milan-scott-mctominay-scores-as-champions-go-top-of-serie-a-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145057\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli 3-1 Inter Milan: Scott McTominay scores as champions go top of Serie A table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott McTominay and Kevin de Bruyne scored as defending champions Napoli beat title rivals Inter Milan and moved to the top of the Serie A table. <\/b><\/p>\n

The hosts led at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona <\/b>through De Bruyne’s first-half penalty, before McTominay and Frank Anguissa struck to secure Napoli’s first win in three games – after a league defeat by Torino and the midweek 6-2 thrashing by PSV Eindhoven<\/a> in the Champions League. <\/p>\n

But in a setback for Antonio Conte’s side, Belgian midfielder De Bruyne – who has four goals in eight games since leaving Manchester City<\/a> – limped off the pitch soon after scoring.<\/p>\n

It was Inter who made the better start as their captain Lautaro Martinez was denied from close range by Napoli goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic. <\/p>\n

But Napoli went ahead through De Bruyne’s penalty in the 33rd minute after Henrikh Mkhitaryan fouled Giovanni di Lorenzo inside the box. <\/p>\n

It was the final involvement of the evening for both De Bruyne and Mkhitaryan as the former Manchester United midfielder was swiftly taken off by Inter manager Cristian Chivu.<\/p>\n

Inter went close to an equaliser in the closing stages as Denzel Dumfries brushed the woodwork with a towering header. <\/p>\n

But it was Napoli who doubled their lead nine minutes after the restart when Scotland international McTominay ran on to a long ball from Leonardo Spinazzola and hit a first-time effort past Yann Sommer from the edge of the box. <\/p>\n

Hakan Calhanoglu reduced the deficit for the visitors from a penalty after a handball from Alessandro Buongiorno, only for Anguissa to restore Napoli’s two-goal advantage within seven minutes. <\/p>\n

Napoli’s sixth win in eight games saw them dethrone AC Milan from the league’s summit with a one-point lead. <\/p>\n

McTominay had scored in Napoli’s 2-0 win over Cagliari in their final game of the 2024-25 season to guide the club to their fourth Serie A title at the expense of Inter, who finished one point behind.<\/p>\n

Roma, who face Sassuolo on Sunday, could match Napoli on 18 points with a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott McTominay and Kevin de Bruyne scored as defending champions Napoli beat title rivals Inter Milan and moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-145057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115436381945335800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}