Frosinone Makes Napoli Fall In Coppa Italia's Last 16

JAKARTA - A surprise in the Coppa Italia when Napoli fell in the last 16. The Frosinone that made Napoli 4-0 in a duel at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, Wednesday, December 20 in the morning WIB.

The game was full of surprises. The totally unseeded Frosinone really made a scene. Despite playing at home to the opponent, I Canarini actually showed the best game and qualified for the quarter-finals to face Juventus or Salernitana.

On the other hand, Napoli hopes to continue the positive trend in the Coppa Italia. After losing 1-0 against Juventus, they managed to get up and beat Sporting Braga 2-0 in the Champions League. This victory brought I Partenopei to the last 16 accompanying Real Madrid.

After qualifying in the Champions League, Napoli again won 2-1 over Cagliari. These three additional points brought Napoli to fifth.

But the good trend was broken by Frosinone. The crushing defeat could not be separated from coach Walter Mazzarri's strategy, which seemed to underestimate the opponent.

He overhauled the squad and fielded second-tier players. The main players were only played in the second half.

On the front lines, Italian national team striker Giacomo Raspadori became the mainstay of replacing Victor Osimhen. Likewise, goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollina took over Alex Meret's position to stand under the bar. As a result, Gollina had to pick up the ball four times from the net.

"It seems that our first player was not used to starting the match from the bench," said Mazzarri.

Frankly, we don't deserve to lose because they have tried hard to score goals. I don't like the results of the match and have to do an evaluation," he said.

"I apologize to the fans. Even when we were 2-0 behind, we were still trying because we were Napoli. This defeat was unacceptable," he said.

The match was tight because Frosinone put up a fight. Napoli did excel in possession of the ball. Raspadori recorded almost scoring in the 21st minute but his efforts still failed.

Napoli took the lead when Giovanni Simeone found out against Frosinone. It's just that the goal of the son of Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone was disallowed.

The reason is that after being reviewed via VAR, his colleague Jesper Lindstrom first touched the ball. The first half ended with a fixed score of 0-0.

Entering the second half, Mazzarri fielded almost all the pillar players, including Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Osimhen and Matteo Politano. When Napoli appeared with the best squad, Frosinone was actually able to rise.

Frosinone managed to break the deadlock when Enzo Barrenechea scored after completing an assist from Luca Garitano in the 65th minute.

The goal made the Frosinone players even more excited. It was proven that only five minutes later, Giuseppe Casa managed to increase the visitors' advantage to 2-0.

The situation is getting worse for Napoli. Instead of chasing behind, Napoli was even awarded a penalty following the violation committed by Di Lorenzo. He brought down Francesco Gelli in the box so that the referee pointed to the spot.

Striker Walid Cheddira, a loan player from Napoli, successfully completed the penalty in injury time.

Frosinone still scored with one minute remaining. This time, Abdou Harroui broke into Napoli's goal. Frosinone closed the game with a 4-0 win.