Giacomo Raspadori got here off the bench to attain his first aim of the season, sending Napoli joint prime to beat Venezia regardless of a saved Romelu Lukaku penalty.
The Partenopei knew a victory with Atalanta, who . Alessandro Buongiorno will likely be out for a number of weeks after hurting his again in coaching, however Khvicha Kvaratskhelia returned to the beginning XI with David Neres in for Matteo Politano following flu signs. The Lagunari had been unbeaten in three and recent from a win over Cagliari, however Michael Svoboda, Antonio Raimondo, Alfred Duncan and Richie Sagrado missed out.
Referee Matteo Marchetti pulled out within the warm-up, so swapped locations with fourth official Francesco Cosso.
It was a vibrant begin from the hosts, Filip Stankovic getting simply sufficient on the Amir Rrahmani shot to stop him scoring from six yards after three minutes.
Stankovic additionally had his gloves stung by Kvaratskhelia, however Alex Meret wanted a determined response save with a trailing boot to cease John Yeboah drilling in from 10 yards after a give and go along with Francesco Zampano.
After a collection of nook kicks, Napoli obtained a penalty when the Matias Olivera cross-shot was charged down by the arm of Jay Idzes. Nevertheless, Lukaku noticed his spot-kick parried by Stankovic to maintain Venezia on stage phrases. The one earlier Serie A penalty the Belgian didn’t convert was towards Lecce for Roma in November 2023.
Napoli wasted a double alternative quickly after, as first McTominay’s effort was charged down, then Andre Frank Zambo Anguissa ballooned over the bar.
Hans Nicolussi Caviglia stung Meret’s gloves with an in-swinging free kick, however Stankovic denied Lukaku on 64 minutes with an ideal save to palm the highly effective angled drive onto the within of the far submit.
Napoli lastly broke via when the low David Neres cross from the left was deflected, touchdown kindly for substitute Raspadori to smash in first-time from 10 yards. The ahead, who has been linked with a January exit, had not scored for his membership since April.
Stankovic acquired his fingertips to a Matias Olivera cross-shot to maintain Venezia in it to the top.
Napoli 1-0 Venezia
Raspadori 79 (N)
Saved penalty: Lukaku 37 (N)