{"id":88040,"date":"2025-08-23T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88040\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:23:07","slug":"kevin-de-bruyne-and-scott-mctominay-inspire-napoli-to-opening-day-serie-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88040\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin De Bruyne and Scott McTominay inspire Napoli to opening day Serie A win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belgian midfielder Kevin de Bruyne scored on his Napoli debut as the side kicked off their Serie A title defence with a 2-0 win at Sassuolo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old, who joined on a free transfer in the summer after 10 years with Manchester City, found the far corner of the net with a whipped free-kick from the left shortly before the hour mark.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland midfielder Scott McTominay had given the champions the lead after 17 minutes when he headed in a cross from Italy winger Matteo Politano. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McTominay, 28, scored 12 goals in 34 league appearances after joining Napoli from Manchester United in 2024, earning him the Serie A MVP award as Antonio Conte&#8217;s side clinched the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scot, who has scored 14 times in 37 matches in all competitions for the Italians, recently earned a nomination for the 2025 Ballon d&#8217;Or prize. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts&#8217; on-loan Marseille midfielder Ismael Kone was sent off with 11 minutes to go for a second bookable offence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere in the division, Genoa and Lecce played out a tense 0-0 draw in a game of few chances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgian midfielder Kevin de Bruyne scored on his Napoli debut as the side kicked off their Serie A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-88040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}