Giacomo Raspadori bagged a brace and Victor Osimhen scored an acrobatic effort as Napoli beat Crystal Palace 3-1 in Turkey.

The Premier League side had a good start, testing Alex Meret with Ebere Eze’s volley before Wilfried Zaha’s angled drive opened the scoring.

Moments later, Osimhen drew level with a spectacular effort, flicking the ball in the air over the head of Will Hughes to turn among defenders inside the box until firing in from a tricky angle.

It started raining heavily for the second half, which saw both teams make numerous substitutions.

Mario Rui made a decisive block on Doucoure and a deflected long-range Leo Ostigard effort forced a save, but Raspadori took centre-stage with a powerful strike into the roof of the net and turned in the third on a low Zanoli assist rolled across from the right.

Napoli 3-1 Crystal Palace

Zaha 33 (CP), Osimhen 34 (N), Raspadori 64, 81 (N)

Napoli: Meret; Di Lorenzo (Zanoli 46), Ostigard, Juan Jesus (Barba 46), Mario Rui (Zedadka 65); Ndombele (Spavone 83), Lobotka (Gaetano 46), Elmas (Marchisano 73); Politano, Osimhen (Simeone 46), Kvaratskhelia (Raspadori 46)

Crystal Palace: Butland; Clyne, Tomkins (Richards 55), Guehi, Ward (Adaramola 66); Milivojevic (Riedewald 66), Hughes (Gordon 81), Schlupp (Doucoure 46); Eze, Olise (Ebiowei 81), Zaha (Edouard 81)

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