{"id":2012,"date":"2025-08-10T04:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:12:39","slug":"kevin-de-bruyne-off-the-mark-for-napoli-in-friendly-win-against-girona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Kevin De Bruyne off the mark for Napoli in friendly win against Girona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">2<\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tKevin De Bruyne scored a brace and assisted the other in what were his first goal contributions for Napoli as the Italian champions went on to beat Girona 3-2 in a pre-season friendly, with the season starting later this month. <\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne assisted Giovanni Di Lorenzo from a corner and then scored twice in the first half to give Napoli a 3-0 lead by the 23rd minute. But Girona came back in the first half itself with a brace from veteran striker Cristhian Stuani. The second half was a much more tame affair compared to the first which had five goals. <\/p>\n<p>This game will serve as a warning to all Serie A sides as De Bruyne,despite his age and fitness issues increasing, can still be a game changer when the season begins. A notable conundrum for Napoli however, will be how De Bruyne and Scott McTominay, who played a massive role in last year\u2019s Scudetto win, play together in the same XI. <\/p>\n<p>Kaulik Mitra | GIFN<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsitaly.com\/2025\/kevin-de-bruyne-off-the-mark-for-napoli-in-friendly-win-against-girona\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Kevin De Bruyne scored a brace and assisted the other in what were his first goal contributions for Napoli as the Italian champions went on to beat Girona 3-2 in a pre-season friendly, with the season starting later this month. De Bruyne assisted Giovanni Di Lorenzo from a corner and then scored twice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-giocatori-italiani-allestero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}