During ‘Campania Sport’, the journalist Umberto Chiariello spoke with his usual editorial
In the course of ‘Campania Sport’, the journalist Umberto Chiariello intervened with his usual editorial: “Less another from the championship fight. We have never thought that Lazio were a serious candidate for the championship fight. He plays excellent football, but has a rather narrow squad, he has no replacement for Immobile and has little continuity. It is a somewhat immature team. Also out of Rome, we killed him at the Olimpico, and Udinese starting to slow down. After Liverpool, Napoli goes to Bergamo and has the possibility of taking out another team as well. Juventus remains, however, it does away by itself, it is true that it has won the last 3 but for this Juve to recover 10 points in this Naples it seems really impossible. In football miracles happen and then when we talk about Juve we must always leave a minimum of afterthought. He will fight for the Champions League with Lazio, Rome and Atalanta, the first three places have already been assigned. Inter are running fast, but they have played the bonus because they have already lost 4 games. However, from Barcelona she returned to racing also thanks to luck and referee errors. Is it an Inter that has squared off, will it be able to recover from the Napoli-Milan duo? It remains difficult. Milan remains with a player who makes the difference, Leao, and plays good football.
And then there is a team that no one would have given a shred of attention at the beginning of the season. In the summer forecasts it was given sixth-seventh-octave, I gave it third ready to bite the Milanese who are wrong. Maybe so. Those who were worried had good reason for it. Who feared that this refoundation was something difficult to digest, but there was something that has mixed up the cards. De Laurentiis went with his vision: ‘Refound everything’, this time the Grassi and Reggini did not arrive. He not only focused on Osimhen’s reconfirmation, but he took the Georgian that not everyone knew but who was a phenomenon. He played in the Georgian league which was Serie C, you had to see him in Serie A. Apart from Kvaratskhelia, Napoli made a triple bet. He went to get someone in a role where the downgrade seemed safe, a better one than Koulibaly cannot be found! Can we say that Kim is playing much better than the last Kalidou? But I was sure that Napoli were strong, because they had the strongest midfield in Italy. When you have Anguissa, Lobotka and Zielinski in midfield, you have an exceptional department. Do we want to talk about the full backs? On behalf of Naples, I apologize to Mario Rui. It seemed that if Emerson Palmieri hadn’t come he was downsizing, because he wasn’t from Naples. And Di Lorenzo? Another from Empoli… Today they are extraordinary assistmen and perhaps we should avoid making definitive judgments. Mario Rui is the defender with the most assists in the league and he has taken crosses in profusion, sooner or later he will score. Mario Rui and Di Lorenzo today are absolute strengths. Not to mention the Meret massacre yesterday was extraordinary. People don’t understand that certain saves are important, if he locks the door he makes you play on velvet.
Napoli have the best performance in Europe right now, Klopp says they are the most fit team in the world. Napoli is the team in the top 5 European leagues with the best performance (92.1) of the season. Napoli is an organized team, which makes a great defensive phase, comes out of the defense with a dribble and goes vertically. Those who play, play do well. On Maradona’s day we had a twinkle in our eyes, because the energy that comes from heaven when there is Maradona to commemorate is something that only we can understand. Because that Argentine urchin is ours, even after he dies he is alive and has brought wealth to Naples. As Spalletti rightly said, Diego will be happy with this Napoli. I believe that from up there he will be shooting Garella on goal, saying: ‘The boys win this year.‘”.
