Napoli captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo spoke after the devastating 6-2 defeat to PSV Eindhoven and laid bare the team's deep crisis. "We need to analyze the poor performance we made this evening carefully and understand the reasons, " he told Sky Sport. " It was a bad night, everything went wrong."
A night to forget, but one the defender can't and shouldn't dismiss quickly. "We need to face it head-on, " he added . "Right now, we're fragile. Last year, we felt solid and rock-solid, but now we've lost that consistency and balance. We're trying to do something different up front, but we've conceded goals that shouldn't be conceded at this level."
The captain's words sound like a jolt, a call to rediscover the spirit that led Napoli to the top of Italy. "We need a dose of humility ," he concluded . "We need to rediscover that desire to keep goals, because now it always seems like others can hurt us. Perhaps something important can emerge from such a heavy defeat."
