Fiorentina Furious, Beat Napoli 5-2 In Coppa Italia Last 16

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JAKARTA - Fiorentina beat Napoli 5-2 in the last 16 of the Coppa Italia at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, Thursday morning. In this match, the referee issued three red cards.

Citing Antara, Friday, three of the seven goals were born in extra time after the 2-2 draw lasted for the full 90 minutes and the match had to be completed in a nine against ten situations.

Che vittoria!

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Dusan Vlahovic put Fiorentina ahead in the 41st minute using Riccardo Saponara's cross but the visitors' lead lasted only three minutes as Dries Mertens put Napoli level with his goal.

Two minutes into first-half injury time, referee Giovanni Ayroldi was shown a red card for Fiorentina goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski who came out of the net and fouled Eljif Elmas in a Napoli counter-attack.

Aged goalkeeper Pietro Terracciano was sent on to replace Alfred Duncan to guard the Fiorentina goal following Dragowski's expulsion.

Napoli failed to take advantage of the unequal situation to take the lead, even though Fiorentina managed to restore their advantage in the 57th minute through Cristiano Biraghi's strike in a set piece situation.

Instead of coming back to catch up, Napoli actually made the situation back to ten to ten when Hirving Lozano was shown a red card in the 84th minute when the referee increased his penalty after reviewing a foul on Nicolas Gonzalez.

Not quite there, Napoli also lost one more player in the third minute of injury time when Fabian Ruiz received a second yellow card after violating Lucas Torreira.

However, two minutes later Napoli actually equalized dramatically through Andrea Petagna's goal which forced extra time to be played because normal time ended with the score 2-2.

Unlike Napoli who threw away the advantage in numbers, Fiorentina was able to use it to restore the advantage even though they had to wait until the end of the first half of added time through Lorenzo Venuti's flick to finish Youssef Maleh's cross.

Fiorentina continued their momentum and extended their lead to 4-2 through Krzysztof Piatek who marked his La Viola debut with a goal in the 108th minute.

Then a minute before the end of extra time Maleh completed Fiorentina's 5-2 victory using a breakthrough bait from Jonathan Ikone.

According to the draw that was determined before the competition started, Fiorentina will meet Atalanta, who qualified the day before, according to the competition's official website.