Napoli are in Rome to face Lazio in a duel for third place in Serie A, and there was a lot of pressure on both sides to pull out a win. Lazio opened the match in control, dominating possession against a shaky Napoli midfield, but couldn't execute in the final third. That issue wasn't so much a thing for Napoli:
Gonzalo Higuain unleashed a screamer against Lazio
Napoli’s No. 9 scored from an impossibly tight angle with a divine finish.
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That's Gonzalo Higuain, striker extraordinaire, making Etrit Berisha look very, very bad. To be fair to the Albanian goalkeeper, there's not many strikers who can pull off that shot, but Higuain is one of them. It was a top-shelf finish from a top-shelf striker, drilling his shot through a very small window and snapping the net so hard the ball nearly went through it. And eventually, it turned out to be the winner.
When a striker like Higuain pulls off a shot like that, all a goalkeeper can do is tip his cap -- once he’s done gathering the broken shards of his pride up off the pitch.
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