Mertens and Insigne score, but Napoli collapses in Empoli: Meret’s clamorous duck, Spalletti still misses all the changes and De Laurentiis forces the retirement
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Zero to the trampled shirt. “I hate the indifferent” is the phrase that sums up the indignation that bequeathed to the embarrassing staging of Empoli. An accusation that is aimed first of all at men, a betrayal that concerns very serious issues such as respect and decency. Football remains almost in the background, it is dusk, when history, origins, a past that is made up of people who have spit blood for those colors are stabbed. And no one, really no one, can dare not to respect what has been. Men pass, ideas remainor. And ideas deserve unconditional loyalty.
One point was collected in three races. Like stealing candy from a child, or rather an ice cream that melts in the hands of a child who does not react. When it was necessary to go further, Napoli holed up in the cave of their fears. He plugs his ears, eyes, heart. He no longer knows where to go, what to do. Lost like a sheep that just doesn’t want to leave the flock. Feeling of absolute emptiness, walking on the banks of the courage of this team.
Two days and then all in punishment. “Permanent retirement” announces the club on Twitter. Why woe betide us. Because in 2022 a club like Napoli entrusts every communication to a few characters on social networks. A too clear gap with other managers, with other corporate structures. One of the original sins of the performance of De Laurentiis, furious after the knockout of Empoli. And God forbid. We need to grow there too, president. Marotta at Inter is the practical example of how a high-profile manager can turn the tide. Adl furious and mute, a sad constant.
Three points for Inter against Roma. From eternal delusions, we regretted the Nerazzurri’s victory in the Scudetto key and instead we also end up thanking Inzaghi’s team that keeps the Giallorossi away from a Champions League qualification point of view. Making dreams that are too big with this Napoli is like walking on the stairs of a chicken coop.
Four changes, all disastrous, and Spalletti allows himself the luxury of not answering the issue. Instead, he should explain things, starting from this inexplicable fury against Mertens: making him play so little, taking him off the pitch at the best moment when there were people walking in the middle of the pitch is an unforgivable mistake. Once again Ciro’s talent has been mortified and there are no rational reasons. Luciano wanted to wage war with the myth of Dries, but obsessions do not lead to anything good. His previous history with Totti should have taught him something …
Five seconds of madness and a choice that smacks of condemnation. Meret is perhaps playing the future blue with that unfortunate choice, which can be a difficult spot to erase. Alex hesitates, he hesitates amidst the uncertainties of a latent maturity. It gets lost and there is no explanation, simply the response of a heart that perhaps cannot withstand certain pressures. “My ambition far exceeded my talent” says George Jung in the ending of Blow. Perhaps the opposite is true for the boy: a talent not supported by an adequate personality.
Six points for Empoli, zero for Napoli in two games. “After all, it’s just a trick. Yes, it’s just a trick “ as Jep Gambardella taught us. This datum is ‘The end’ of everything else, it cancels any speech or evaluation. It dominates the technical-tactical considerations, it enlightens us on a truth that we often pretend not to see. To the bitter end deniers of the limits of this team, who break promises like broken necklaces on the beach. Meanwhile, Spalletti, by not replying, makes a shocking announcement about the future, when confirmation seemed obvious. He looked like …
Seven races with two minutes before Empoli for Malcuit who enters and does more damage than a plague of Egypt. He confuses Castellani with the Mostra d’Oltremare and thinks he is at Comicon: the right-back cosplay turns out to be a disaster. The superficiality with which he faces the match is disrespectful for a club that has paid him for too many years, having little or nothing in return. On June 30th he will expire, but it would be really painful to see him still wear the Napoli shirt in this season finale. Choose other characters: the full-back is really bad.
Eight minutes and three goals taken. As if to give up the contest, a sudden and unmotivated white flag flutters on the bridge. What for long stretches was the best defense of the championship, gets three from Empoli in eight minutes. Spalletti plays the ostrich, has been sticking his head in the sand for weeks not to face reality: the solidity of Napoli had been lost for some time. The last match with the goal in flight dates back to February 2 on the field of Venice: since then he has always conceded goals.
Nine in the league playing as if it were a concession, a courtesy of Spalletti. Mertens scores in Serie A every 125 ‘, has scored 146 times in the Napoli shirt, yet Spalletti has confined him to the role of extra. He gave him some rare cameos like in a Hitchcock movie and he wanted to convince us that he was also right. No, Luciano, no. With Dries you messed up sensationally, a failed management of Napoli’s most brilliant talent. Ciro had to be preserved, experienced as a wonderful opportunity and instead Spalletti used it with the annoyance of those who fear that this size could act as a shadow on its own merits. An unforgivable double mistake.
Ten goals, the second on play (even with the left-handed). Insigne and Ciro hug each other after the goal of doubling and it seems to see a chapter ready to close in the library of life. It was senseless to call him back on the bench in one of the best matches of the season, as it had happened with Roma. When he played very badly he stayed on the pitch until he was exhausted, now that he is well he is called back to the bench prematurely. The summary of a match in which Napoli did not understand anything, starting with his coach. Inevitable domino effect.
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