The Neapolitan journalist Umberto Chiariello took stock of the championship during ‘Campania Sport’ on Canale 21. Here is what Tuttonapoli highlighted: “It will be a curse, but in Naples dreams always die at dawn. Napoli had pulled out of the Scudetto already at the end of the first round, but the opponents had brought him back in abundantly. Napoli did not have an extraordinary group, but nevertheless they had obtained 18 points, the best performance of a group of teams that seem not to want to race. Inter had stopped, Milan between referee problems and everything you want had not had an exciting path. So much so that Juve, which plays very badly, quatta quatta with 14 consecutive useful results, launches some signals from behind.
Napoli today had the great chance of a lifetime, because a league like this without bosses when it happens more. It was the challenge to get to first place alone and Napoli deservedly lost it, because they played badly without making a shot on goal. Today to find the worst you have to pull many of them in a hurry, because some have been really non-existent. Insigne and Zielinski did not touch the ball, Politano, Lozano and Mertens evanescent. Fabian Ruiz even unwatchable, already in Rome with Lazio he had been then he had found that cover goal that had allowed Napoli to win that very difficult match. Lazio is in fact in great conditions, Sarri’s work is doing well so much so that in Cagliari where we suffered the unspeakable he maramaldied 3-0. The match with Milan does not statistically close the doors of the Scudetto to Napoli, because the top is always 3 points or maybe 4 if Inter wins in the recovery in Bologna, but there are 10 games left at the end. It’s like Napoli, just like in Cagliari, the way that still offends us because they didn’t play. Only a quarter of an hour that went there a little bit of hope. Beyond that Victor Osimhen who gave his soul like a devil, who put all of himself into it and you can’t tell him anything, where has Napoli been? Where was that team capable of phrasing in midfield, of coming out from below, of hurting its attacking midfielders, of finding depth and breadth. There was none of this, no tackle was won, athletically turned off, wrong passes on wrong passes. Can you tell me if Maignan had a difficult evening or Ospina, who was the best in Napoli? Do you think that Napoli loses and had their goalkeeper as best in the field, this demonstrates that there is a palpable disappointment.
Such is the bitterness, because Napoli always arrives in these moments and then stops. We have nothing more to say, we are deeply disappointed by a match not played. Napoli tonight is like those boxers who lose by no contest, because they don’t even throw a punch. This hurts more than defeat, because I wanted to see 11 lions and instead I saw 11 frightened waffles ”.
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