Castel Volturno – Exactly 100 days have passed since June 5th and Antonio Conte has used them to lay the foundations for his long adventure on the Napoli bench, destined to last at least three years by contract. The first steps in building the new project have been physiologically a bit uncertain from the point of view of the game, which has never fully taken off so far, while the results are already proving the Lecce coach and his work right: 6 points in three league games and a round passed in the Coppa Italia, in which the Azzurri were forced to start from the thirty-second finals after the disappointing tenth place in last season. It seemed like the beginning of the decline for Aurelio De Laurentiis’ club. Instead, most of the rubble was quickly removed thanks to the arrival of one of the big names on the bench and optimism returned to Castel Volturno, also thanks to the notable effort (150 million invested) made by Aurelio De Laurentiis during the summer transfer market, in particular for the more expensive purchases of Lukaku, Gilmour Buongiorno, Neres and McTominay.
Conte: “Cycle just beginning, but three intense months”
But there is still a lot of work to do and for this reason Conte remains very cautious in his assessment of his first hundred days. “My cycle is only just beginning, I can say for now that these have been three very intense months, from every point of view: first and foremost on the pitch and also off it. I am satisfied, we have given a direction, we must continue like this”, is the strong recommendation of the coach from Lecce, who after the first break of the championship has two away games in a row, in Cagliari and Turin with Juventus. “Now, however, our thoughts must only be on Sunday’s match in Sardinia, otherwise we would have a provincial attitude. A very difficult match awaits us and we will have to get our hands dirty, having in front of us a team coached by a good and underrated colleague like Nicola. To give continuity to our results, as I ask my players, we will need an excellent performance”.
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by Marco Azzi
“De Laurentiis’ emotion shows great attachment”
Conte knows that the road to relaunching Napoli is still long and that unity of purpose will be fundamental, on and off the pitch. Hence the sweet words for Aurelio De Laurentiis. “It is increasingly difficult for an Italian family to commit to football and he has been doing it for 20 years. I saw his emotion, which is proof of the great attachment with which he carries out his work as president”. But the honeymoon between the two passes above all through the results and for this Cagliari will be another test. “Lukaku? He improves from training session to training, I see him growing”. A starting shirt is ready for the Belgian.
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– 2024-09-22 02:31:16
