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NAPLES, Italy (AP) – Napoli midfielder Antonio Vergara scored a stunning goal that had echoes of Diego Maradona in the stadium named after the Argentine soccer great.
Vergara’s stunning goal evokes Maradona magic in Napoli’s crucial Champions League match
NAPLES, Italy (AP) - Napoli midfielder Antonio Vergara scored a stunning goal that had echoes of Diego Maradona in the stadium named after the Argentine soccer great.
It was an impressive way for the locally born, 23-year-old Vergara to score his first goal for Napoli and his first in the Champions League.
Napoli was trailing 1-0 against Chelsea on Wednesday in a game that it needed to win to keep its Champions League hopes alive when Vergara leveled in the 33rd minute.
Vergara collected a loose ball and surged toward goal before beating Chelsea defender Wesley Fofana with a lovely pirouette and firing across into the bottom left corner.
The goal had the home fans in the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on their feet.
Napoli led 2-1 at halftime after Rasmus Højlund netted shortly before the break.
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