Tomorrow Napoli will have to overturn the 2-0 defeat in the first leg against Granada, with access to the Europa League round of XNUMX at stake. The team is therefore temporarily breaking the press silence. The coach seemed to have a very tired tone.
On the condition and injuries of the players: “Koulibaly and Ghoulam remain available, like against Atalanta. Demme and Hysay are not yet available and we also lost Osihmen”. On Mertens and the possibility of seeing him on the pitch: “Mertens has only done part of the training, he has been out for a long time. He will go on the bench and then we will see during the match”. Given the emergency in attack: “I will not name names on who will play central so as not to give advantages. Politano can play, but Elmas can also be a striker”.
A message to the fans: “The moment is negative, we are struggling to give continuity to the results. We represent a fantastic city and we all take our responsibilities, the first is me. We must speak little, the period is bad between results and injuries. So talk less and do more”.
On what he expects from the team: “Certainly to start better than the first leg, we know their characteristics well and we were surprised precisely on this. The team must read the situations well, which was not done well in Bergamo, we conceded 4 goals. We must learn to read the danger, we must put something more in terms of desire”. Net of the absences there was a different attitude: “It makes me laugh if you say that we have no objective for the Europa League and the championship. We play every 3 days, we don't recover. There are 5 substitutions and we are numerically up to our necks in water. It's not an excuse, because those who play give everything they have. Often those who came on from the bench have made the difference, now it's more difficult. We train little and because of our way of playing we have difficulties”.
Gianmarco Amato
Article published on 24 February 2021 - 14:12
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