Spalletti’s team flies to the top of the standings without Kvaratskhelia and with record numbers: now the Azzurri are great even with the small ones
10 victories in a row, 8 points clear of second in the standings, no defeats and the best attack in the league with 34 goals scored, 5 different penalty shooters and the record of goals scored with substituted players in the top five European leagues (9). The numbers of the Naples from Luciano Spalletti they are impressive and alone would be enough to indicate the blues as the natural favorites for the race scudettobut after the match of Maradona against Empoli there are clear signs that this could really be the right season for Napoli.
For the second consecutive time, Napoli played without Kvaratskelia and brought home the three points and those won against Empoli (which last year put an end to the Italian dreams of the Azzurri with a sensational comeback) perhaps they are even more important because so far the only other home braking in the path almost net of the blues had arrived against another small one, Lecce, in a match very similar to yesterday’s in which the blues were struggling to break through.
Then came the rigor (“rigorino” as it has been defined by some), but Spalletti after the race he ensured that the goal would come anyway because this team now has only certainties and has once again shown that it has high quality resources on the bench: “This becomes the solution for everything – explained the coach – This alternation becomes fundamental. The addition of the qualities of 22 players makes more than adding the qualities of 11 players, I don’t know how to tell you anymore. “
“So the teams that want the three points win“, reiterated the technician and to echo him too Raspadori: “The mentality we are working on has given us a hand. Winning gives you enthusiasm and desire to work. We are resetting everything after each game, we restart every time and this is paying off.” Napoli, who plays very well and has also enchanted Europe, has changed their mentality, now they are great even with the small ones, arrive at the stop in the lead and fly away towards the Scudetto.
Sure, the long one World stop is a big unknown, but Spalletti does not fear it because Napoli will send few players to Qatar (probably 5), the others will have time to unplug a bit and the coach will have a lot to work with an almost complete group and in a certain sense to repeat the preparation at the beginning of the year that led to the sprint start of the Azzurri. “The road is very long and the pitfalls are many“, but this could also be another sign …
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