Palermo vs. Napoli

However, Palermo were unlucky not to receive a penalty when Walter Gargano tripped Pastore in the box. The referee waved on seeing only a slight touch on the back from another defender, but the real foul was committed by Gargano. Despite all the pressure, it was Palermo who broke through with a pure poacher's goal. Maggio hesitated as he tried to protect the loose ball for De Sanctis, but didn't notice Edison Cavani sneak up behind him and curl his leg around to tap in from six yards. Straight after the restart Napoli wasted yet another golden opportunity, as Federico Balzaretti kept Hamsik in play, but the chip over the goalkeeper went wide of an open goal! Zenga introduced Nicolas Bertolo for his Serie A debut, while Hamsik wasted another good chance. Napoli finally equalised on 72 minutes with a Hamsik screamer from 25 metres that whistled round Simon Kjaer and past Rubinho despite the Brazilian goalkeeper getting his gloves to it. Within 60 seconds the visitors had once again shot themselves in the foot. Juan Zuniga clearly tripped Cavani and nobody could complain about the penalty, which Fabrizio Miccoli coolly rolled in to send De Sanctis the wrong way. Cavani really should've made it 3-1 on a classic counter-attack set up by Bresciano, but the Uruguayan horribly shinned it well over.