False step in Benevento, Di Napoli secures Cavese

A Benevento the Cavese held up well for an hour, having conceded little to the Benevento forwards, with the score at one nil the team Raphael of Naples produced three initiatives to be able to get to two to zero, always with Sorrentino, but the bad luck of the metelliani, which is also the bad luck of mister Di Napoli, is that the matches in football do not last an hour, but last longer, and after the sixtieth minute of play there was a lack of concentration and balance in the non-possession phase. It was the first day: with training and with time, the white and blues should then be able to maintain the same lucidity and the same intensity of the first part for more minutes.

Di Napoli, the Cavese coach, does not dramatize after the defeat suffered in Sannio: he wants to save something to start again from. «I would say that we also played seventy important minutes. Coming to Benevento and playing the game was in our plan, the players did it with an open face, and I think we would have deserved something more, especially if we had capitalized on the opportunities we had, in the first and second half. Benevento is a great team, they will fight to win the championship, and ours is a team that is forming because we have changed a lot. My players played a game with great personality and great determination, from a physical point of view it is normal that when a team is trying to recover it has more energy, and then when it has scored the first goal it goes on the wings of enthusiasm; they had quality up front, and we were no longer able to have that strength to be able to attack the spaces that Benevento left us. Let’s not forget that our goal is salvation, not having scored points leaves a bitter taste in our mouths, but I would highlight the mental aspect with which we faced the game».

Di Napoli then added: «After the goal that made it two to one, we changed the system, and perhaps we weren’t good at taking advantage of the four attackers. There’s work to be done, I’ll try to make the most of what I have, but I’m satisfied with the mentality that the team has. I told the players at the end of the game that we have to raise our heads, this is our championship. Perhaps we need to be smarter and more aggressive in the non-possession phase in the last twenty-eight meters, but I’m confident for the future».

Next Monday, at 8.45pm, the “Lamberti” will once again host a Cavese match in the regular Serie C championship: the Croton coached by the former Emilio Longo, a young team that however started off on the right foot by beating theAltamura on their debut. The Metelliani will try to exploit the home field advantage in the hope of obtaining their first points in the standings.