Europa League

November 8, 2012

Full-time

Napoli

4 - 2

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Group F

18:00 +00:00, November 8, 2012

San Paolo, Italy

Referee: Alon Yefet

Napoli 4-2 Dnipro

Scoring Summary

Napoli Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Edinson Cavani (7')Artem Fedetskiy (33')
Edinson Cavani (77')Roman Zozulya (52')
Edinson Cavani (88') 
Edinson Cavani (90') 

Teams

Napoli Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
22 Antonio Rosati16 Jan Lastuvka
Andrea Dossena19 Vitali Denisov
Salvatore AronicaOndrej Mazuch
Miguel BritosVitaliy Mandziuk
21 Federico Fernandez44 Artem Fedetskiy
Marco Donadel23 Michael Odibe
16 Giandomenico MestoJaba Kankava
20 Blerim Dzemaili29 Ruslan Rotan
88 Gökhan Inler88 Oleksandr Aliev
Edinson Cavani18 Roman Zozulya
9 Eduardo Vargas10 Evgeni Konoplienka
Substitutes
Morgan De SanctisDenys Shelikov 77
14 Hugo Armando CampagnaroEvgeni Cheberyachko 14
11 Christian MaggioSerhiy Kravchenko 4
85 Valon BehramiDenis Oliynyk 11
17 Marek HamsikVictor Giuliano 8
24 Lorenzo InsigneNascimento Leite Matheus 99
19 Goran PandevYevhen Seleznyov 21
Substitutions
Marek Hamsik for Marco Donadel (55)
Victor Giuliano for Oleksandr Aliev (55)
Lorenzo Insigne for Eduardo Vargas (55)
Evgeni Cheberyachko for Evgeni Konoplienka (81)
Goran Pandev for Salvatore Aronica (72)
Nascimento Leite Matheus for Artem Fedetskiy (86)
Yellow Cards
Gökhan Inler (52)
Evgeni Konoplienka (21)
Federico Fernandez (81)
Oleksandr Aliev (25)
 Ruslan Rotan (75)
 Vitaliy Mandziuk (78)
· Squads: Napoli | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani scored all four goals - including two in the dying moments - to lead his side to a memorable Europa League win over Group F leaders Dnipro.

In the build-up to tonight's game Partenopei boss Walter Mazzarri had made a point of denying he was in charge of a one-man team, but his star man did his best to contradict him with a sterling performance.

Cavani opened the scoring after just seven minutes, and when his side slipped behind following strikes from Artem Fedetskiy and Roman Zozulya, he hauled them back with goals after 77, 88 and 93 minutes.

Napoli's opener came after Gokhan Inler combined with Blerim Dzemaili, whose finesse pass found its way to Cavani who calmly applied the finish.

Cavani forced a corner four minutes later, with team-mate Andrea Dossena heading narrowly over the bar from the subsequent delivery.

Dossena shot high again from just six yards on the quarter-hour, while Zozulya gave warning for the visitors when he nodded just wide.

After 33 minutes Dnipro were level.

Michael Odibe headed a corner on to Fedetskiy, who was able to slot home from close range.

Cavani, as expected, had Napoli's best chance to restore the lead before the break but could not keep his header down.

After 52 minutes, Napoli were behind following an Eduardo Vargas error.

His mistake allowed the ball to break for Zozulya, who defeated goalkeeper Antonio Rosati with his 20-yard effort.

Mazzarri immediately sent on two substitutes and one of them, Marek Hamsik, was instrumental in the comeback.

The equalising goal was all about Cavani though, a wonderful 25-yard free-kick in the 77th minute.

That looked to be enough for a draw but Napoli had other ideas, with Hamsik coming to the fore as he teed up Cavani for his hat-trick goal in the 88th minute.

Amazingly, the duo had not yet finished with their opponents and almost three minutes of added time had been played when Hamsik's pass was volleyed home by the irrepressible Cavani.