Il Napoli suffered its first defeat after 16 days of championship, but the breakaway is still underway with a 5 point advantage over Milan, 7 on the Juventus and 8 on theInter with the awareness that this moment must be overcome immediately.
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Napoli KO at San Siro with Inter, the analysis
That's how the Napoli comes out of the defeat at San Siro againstInter at the resumption of the championship after the World Cup and after a retreat like the summer one, which evidently did not allow them to maintain the same pace as before the break. The Azzurri understood this, reviewing the match, seeing how the Nerazzurri ran much faster and knew how to find the corridors towards the area, while Spalletti's team kept the ball for the 63% of time, but finding only one shot on target close to scoring: that of Breakers.
Politano: “Our ambitions do not change”
Little, very little for a team that is now at a crossroads. Spalletti he knows it and in fact at the end of the match he immediately gave the right direction: “The coach told us in the locker room to already think about tomorrow because there will be another important match on Sunday”, commented politan who, on Instagram, then expressed the thoughts of the Italian team after the defeat in Milan.
“Nothing changes – wrote the striker, who was also a former player in the match yesterday – our ambitions don't change, our belief about where we want to get to doesn't change".
To get there, you need that game based on ball possession but also, what was missing yesterday, to suddenly invent the right pass for the attackers in the area, with osimhen who instead waited in vain yesterday and was unable to go and get the ball in the three-quarter line.
Spalletti: “We can do more, we were below par”
Enough to change to become great again, and the coach knows it. “We were supposed to be – he said yesterday – better at finding some passes in the three-quarter line. We didn't succeed, this ball always moved a bit slowly, without going to dig out the space behind the midfielders.
We can do more, then with some players we were below our usual level".
Head washing, therefore, to find determination in attack but also in defense, where yesterday Kim e Rrahmani they looked at each other for a moment after seeing Dzeko to score a header alone in the centre of the area. There is work to be done, starting with the inventiveness of kvaratskhelia yesterday not decisive and who wants to make up for it already on Sunday in the match against Sampdoria, a tough challenge against a team that won at Sassuolo and resumed to safety after 4 consecutive defeats before the break World Cup.
Article published on 5 January 2023 - 21:18
