CAs usual, SSC Napoli commented on the Azzurri's performance on their website: "A goal by Mertens in the 90th minute raises the San Paolo's cry of liberation to the sky, but above all restores a glimmer of logic to football and a complete sense to this Napoli-Roma literally dominated by the Azzurri. The Giallorossi score in the quarter of an hour, after Napoli had a huge opportunity with Insigne, saved with a bang by Manolas. Then it's a whirlwind of actions, a continuous Azzurri hammering with Roma closed in the area as if in a border trench. In the second half, San Paolo establishes a one-way lane, not even alternating. In Fuorigrotta it seems that the witches are a few days ahead of Halloween night. Until the Belgian "devil" puts his tail in and hurls all the anxiety and anger under the crossbar. The San Paolo becomes a roar, with the feeling that if they played a few more minutes they would also overtake. Roma greets the final whistle like the announcement by “Radio London” of the end of the planetary conflict. This too is football. But this too is a great Napoli, a team that knows how to excite and exalt with personality, pride, talent. And an immense heart…”
Article published on 28 October 2018 - 23:06
