{"id":8590,"date":"2023-11-12T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/12\/serie-a-napoli-drops-points-in-1-0-home-upset-to-empoli-after-var-rules-out-opening-goal\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:42:37","slug":"serie-a-napoli-drops-points-in-1-0-home-upset-to-empoli-after-var-rules-out-opening-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/12\/serie-a-napoli-drops-points-in-1-0-home-upset-to-empoli-after-var-rules-out-opening-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Serie A: Napoli drops points in 1-0 home upset to Empoli after VAR rules out opening goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A last-gasp goal by Empoli midfielder Viktor Kovalenko condemned champion Napoli to a 1-0 home loss in Serie A on Sunday as it squandered the chance to move up to third in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Kovalenko scored the winner in stoppage time, netting from inside the box as the ball bounced in off the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli, was still without injured striker Victor Osimhen, thought they had moved in front through Giovanni Simeone in the 27th minute, only to see his goal ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/rafael-leao-ac-milan-hamstring-injury-news-updates-serie-a-champions-league-return\/article67527480.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rafael Leao out with hamstring injury, say AC Milan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Napoli, which stumbled to a\u00a01-1 draw at Union Berlin\u00a0in the Champions League on Wednesday, is fourth on 21 points, two behind AC Milan &#8212; whixh was held to a\u00a02-2 draw at Lecce\u00a0on Saturday &#8212; and eight adrift of leader Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>Second-placed Inter Milan, with 28 points, hosts mid-table Frosinone later on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champions won both matches against Empoli 2-0 last campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Empoli, had lost eight of its 12 league games this season, moved out of the relegation zone to 17th on 10 points.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian Kovalenko scored the winner in stoppage time, netting from inside the box as the ball bounced in off the far post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}