Luciano Spalletti’s team fails to change pace at home, despite the sold-out in Fuorigrotta, and finds their fifth home defeat in the league
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The Naples stumbles upon the most beautiful and does it once again at the Maradona. Luciano Spalletti’s team fails to change pace at home, despite the sold-out in Fuorigrotta, and finds the fifth home defeat in the league which means an incredibly seventh home performance (29 points) compared to Italy’s best away performance. (37 points with a single defeat). And the game, despite the very good performance of the Italian Fiorentina which concretizes almost every action created, is tremendously similar to the other home defeats with Napoli that does not unlock it after a good start, goes under the first shot immediately and then has to chase by allowing too many spaces at the restart, paying off at that point also the frenzy in the individual errors of Mario Rui on the second goal and of Rrahmani coming out on the third.
Changes and sterility of outsiders
Considering the spaces that Fiorentina concedes in the first half hour, the limits of most of the attack this season are evident, starting from the outside with Politano (2 goals from play) and above all Insigne (1 goal from play) who make a mistake every choice or conclusion and leave Osimhen too isolated there in front of him, served little and badly. Zielinski’s moment is also far from positive in the face of elements that are certainly more consistent at this moment but remain behind in the hierarchies. And the solution, as happened also in the last one at home against Udinese, once again comes only in the second half.
Mertens and Osimhen together?
Only 170 minutes together, but 6 goals scored with an average of one goal every 29 minutes. And also with Fiorentina we saw the difference with the extraordinary impact of the Belgian and Osimhen more accompanied and in the heart of the game. In the face of such a negative season for the outsiders, and the goals that are all collected in a few men (Osimhen, Mertens, Fabian and Zielinski), the reflection will also have to be addressed by Spalletti who for now is entrenched behind the word balance, but Napoli no longer makes a clean sheet, no longer has the best defense and above all scores with very few men.
Napoli goals in league action
Osimhen 12
Mertens 7
Fabian 6
Zielinski 5
Lozano 4
Petagna, Rrahmani, Elmas 3
Koulibaly, Politano 2
Jesus, Di Lorenzo, Insigne 1
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