{"id":205836,"date":"2025-12-22T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205836\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:44:07","slug":"italian-super-cup-napoli-beat-bologna-as-david-neres-scores-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205836\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Super Cup: Napoli beat Bologna as David Neres scores twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Neres scored twice as Napoli claimed a deserved victory over Bologna to lift the Italian Super Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazilian winger Neres, 28, opened the scoring for the Serie A champions with a superb curling effort, and doubled their lead after the break when Bologna were caught out trying to play out from the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We came here as champions of Italy, we wanted this trophy and we showed it with a great performance,&#8221; Napoli forward Matteo Politano told Mediaset. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We could have scored a few more goals but we are happy with the victory.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Napoli have now won the Super Cup for the third time, with Neres finishing with three goals after also scoring in Thursday&#8217;s semi-final win over previous holders AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traditionally featuring the Serie A and Italian Cup winners, the competition was expanded in 2023 to include the runners-up from the league and cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four-team tournament is contracted to be held in Saudi Arabia until 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Neres scored twice as Napoli claimed a deserved victory over Bologna to lift the Italian Super Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-205836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}