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K EVIN DE BRUYNE injured himself hit ting his fourth Serie A goal but Napoli went on to beat visiting Inter Milan 3-1 yesterday, halting their slide and moving to the top of Serie A. AC Milan left the leadership door ajar when they drew with Pisa on Saturday to move onto 17 points. Napoli are now one point clear at the top after a timely win at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Napoli had been struggling, losing two of their last three Serie A games, including a defeat at AC Milan, before suffering a 6-2 humiliation at PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last week. They responded in front of their home crowd. “It was a fantastic evening. We played like a top team, we knew we had to put in a great perform

Napoli end slump McTominay on target as Conte masterminds Inter defeat

box after 54 minutes. Hakan Calhanoglu hit back from the spot five minutes later after Alessandro Buongiorno blocked a Lautaro Martinez strike with an arm. Andre-Frank Anguissa drove home a third for Napoli after 67 minutes to finish the scoring. “Inter were coming off a string of good results, while we were struggling,” said Conte. “Inter came here to destroy us … We have no desire and no intention of stopping fighting. “Despite everything, we played an excellent game and the win was legitimate and deserved.” In the late game, Atalanta preserved the only unbeaten record in Serie A but sit only eighth after recording their sixth draw in eight league matches, 1-1 at Cremonese. Jamie Vardy, making his second start since his move from Leicester, scored his first Serie A goal to give the hosts a 79th minute lead. Atalanta responded by bringing on Marco Brescianini in the 82nd minute. The midfielder levelled two minutes later with a shot that went in off the post. – AFP

Inter Milan’s Francesco Acerbi (right) fights for the ball with Napoli’s Scott McTominay during their Serie A match yesterday. – AFPPIC

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play resumed. “We’re going through a tough spell with lots of injuries – Kevin picked up one today too – but we responded with great character,” said Napoli coach Antonio Conte. Inter president Giuseppe Marotta was unhappy that the penalty was awarded by a video review after the referee had initially not whistled for a foul. “The unjustified penalty, as shown by the footage, completely changed the dynamic of the match,” he said, but added “Napoli could have won anyway, of course.” McTominay doubled the home lead when he smashed the ball home from the edge of the the second half, had failed to score. Kimmich put the visitors ahead after 64 min utes, blasting through a crowded penalty box and Guerreiro added another five minutes later, sweeping in to finish off a lovely team move. Gladbach’s hopes of getting something out of the match were dashed further when Kevin Stoeger hit a penalty at the post with 15 minutes left. With nine minutes remaining, 17-year-old Karl produced a stunning curling strike to wrap up the match for the defending champions. Dortmund, who lost their first match of the season the previous Saturday at Bayern, looked set to lose further ground on the league leaders as the clock wound down against visiting Cologne. With the match entering the seventh and final stoppage-time minute, Beier cut a low shot across the grass and into the goal to send the 82,000-strong Westfalenstadion into raptures. “I told the lads, you can’t do that to me too often,” Dortmund coach Niko Kovac told Sky about the late goal. “Otherwise my heart might stop pumping”. RB Leipzig romped to a 6-0 win at Augsburg with six different goalscorers, tightening their grip on second spot. Yan Diomande, Romulo, Antonio Nusa, Christoph Baumgartner, Assan Ouedraogo and Castello Lukeba all netted as Leipzig inflicted Augsburg’s worst home defeat in league history. – AFP

ance and we did it,” said Napoli’s Scott McTominay. “There was a great reaction after the bad night in the Champions League.” Napoli won a penalty after 33 minutes when Henrikh Mkhitaryan brought down Napoli rightback Giovanni Di Lorenzo. Mkhitaryan injured himself making the challenge and went off before De Bruyne stepped up to convert the penalty. It was the Belgian’s fourth league goal of his first Italian season since moving from Manchester City. He had already scored twice from the penalty spot and once with a freekick. But the 34-year-old clutched a hamstring after scoring and was helped off the field before

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In the late game, Maximilian Beier scored in the sixth minute of stoppage time to send Borussia Dortmund up to third with a 1-0 home win over promoted Cologne. RB Leipzig stayed second with a 6-0 win at Augsburg. In Moenchengladbach, Joshua Kimmich, Raphael Guerreiro and teenager Lennart Karl all scored in the final half hour as Bayern made it 13 wins from 13 games in all competitions, a feat last achieved by AC Milan at the start of the 1992-93 season. The win meant Bayern stay five points clear of second-placed RB Leipzig at the top of the table. The home team’s Jens Castrop sunk his studs into Luis Diaz’s shin with 19 minutes gone and was sent off when his yellow card was upgraded to red after a VAR review. Despite the one-man advantage, Bayern – who made six changes including Jonas Urbig replacing captain Manuel Neuer in goal – lacked fluidity against their last-placed opponents. “After the red card, the entire stadium cele brated every duel won and every save by their ‘keeper,” Bayern coach Vincent Kompany said. “There were a lot of emotions – we stayed calm. When we got our chances, we took them.” It was only the second time this season Harry Kane, who had a goal chalked off for offside in

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