Almost every football betting fan knew that these two Coppa Italia games would be as explosive the previous quarterfinals. Those who made a bet online on either game were definitely not disappointed with the quality of play exhibited by Italy’s best!
Napoli 1-2 Atalanta
Napoli were heavy favourites to win this game, so you can just imagine the surprise on many faces when they stumbled to Atalanta.
La Dea fielded a very defensive 3-4-3 to counter Dries Mertens and the rest of the Ciucciarelli, but the Serie A leaders managed to slip past the offside trap countless times. Jose Callejon managed to pull off some impressive shot attempts throughout the first half.
However, the game slowly tilted upon the visitors’ favour in the 50th minute: Timothy Castagne managed to follow up on Andreas Cornelius’ deflected shot and slammed it in, powerful enough to whizz past Luigi Seppe. Alejandro Gomez made the same shot off a Robin Gosens lob down the left 31 minutes later.
Dries Mertens managed to score a header off Atalanta’s defensive miscommunication on the 84th minute, but his efforts were too late to get them back in the game.
Juventus 2-0 Torino
Casual fans would look at this final score and think that Juventus overran their Turin neighbours once again. While they are not wrong, Torino did more than just lay down and wait for the Old Lady to crush them.
Il Toro had a couple of good chances during the first half of the game. M’Baye Niang almost scored a goal from the left-hand side. Their defence, led by Vanja Savic, was pesky and hounded Juventus’s attack throughout the game.
However, Juventus just had too many quality players for them to keep up to. Douglas Costa volleyed in a beautiful shot 15 minutes into the game to give them the lead. Mario Mandzukic capitalised on a defensive lapse during the second half and chipped the winner over Savic. Paulo Dybala was also testing the defence in the 90 minutes he was on the pitch.
There was no question on who the Kings of Turin are; Juventus just gave everyone a subtle reminder.
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