Europa League: Napoli with Osimhen traction, Lazio still late | News

The Italian budget in Europa League after the first day it brings with it only one point but with very different nuances. If the draw of the Naples comes in comeback, with a nice reaction, the defeat of Lazio in Turkey he certifies the difficulties seen also against Milan and demonstrates how Sarri’s team needs time and patience to assimilate the new course. What, however, in the parts of Castel Volturno already seems well imprinted in the heads of the players.

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NAPLES
The point collected on English soil by Napoli is worth gold, not only for the double disadvantage to which the Azzurri have been able to give a double answer but also for how the final 2-2 has matured. After the first 20 ‘bewildered and immediately the advantage, Napoli is like scollapsed off some too many apprehensions showing his qualities, even in front of a Leicester that lined up more second lines than Spalletti’s initial choices. The boulder of 2-0, which arrived immediately after another English goal canceled for offside, seems to put a tombstone on the match but Osimhen’s blaze in the 69th minute is fuel for his team’s desire for revenge.

And that’s where you see one first discontinuity compared to the recent blue past: as against Juve, Napoli has been able to remedy the disadvantage by showing that change of mentality which has limited the ambitions of the environment in recent years. Spalletti’s first merit is therefore this, helped by a Osimhen in exaggerated form. Ok the two goals, both beautiful in their diversity (acceleration and paw in 1-2, imperious detachment in 2-2), but the Nigerian had been the best of his even before the brace. The team’s growth process cannot be separated from that of its striker

LAZIO
Virtually opposite speech for Lazio that comes out with broken bones from the trip to the Galatasaray field, always difficult at an environmental level but less dangerous than in the past. Net of the incredible mistake of Strakosha who cancels what would have been a point to immediately move the group, the biancocelesti they did not show great signs of vivacity, as if to carry with him the dross of the defeat in the league against Milan. There Sarri revolution is not yet complete, and God forbid: as said a few days ago by Tare himself, the new technician was also chosen to give a clean break with the past and two months of work cannot be enough to declare the work finished.

At the same time, the difficulties of some of the columns that last year, these days, scrambled Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League are undeniable: of course Milinkovic-Savic and Immobile, not by chance for the second match in a row Lazio did not find the goal, but even if not above all Luis Alberto who does not seem to be at ease in the three-man midfield, little helped by Lucas Leiva who, for age and pace, is less protected than the five-man line in which he directed the game until a year ago. Sarri used the carrot with his family speaking of “step forward” but it is evident that his work is still at the beginning and, until he finds the right place, he will have to try to limit highs (let’s not forget the nine goals scored in the first two league games) e bass (the defense has conceded at least one goal in every game played to date).

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