That gray bracket between two very positive strips. One of them traced it Gattuso, recovering segment by segment that Naples shattered by 16 months of bolsaus and boring managementexpensive and inconclusive. Now yes, we can speak again of “team” coached by a coach who thinks of nothing else, who prepares every single training in a painstaking way with his top quality staff, coordinated by an assistant coach who in the past has sweated on the fields being a footballer and not dad’s son.
Let’s go read Ringhio’s numbers and erase everything we thought about him when De Laurentiis, after having forced Allegri again, decided to take him to the bedside of a split team and dangerously hovering over the overhang of the relegation zone. Well, since the technical guide has changed, Napoli has managed to get back on top, until results that return the merit to whom this group had put it together. From 11 December to today 13 games have been played and Napoli would be firmly in the Champions area, with 24 points, one more than Inter, the result of 8 wins and 5 losses. But four of these knockouts, all arrived in the first 5 rounds of management Ringhio, when bad luck and an inappropriate condition they still forced the blues into the condition of a shaken and lost group. After the first game signed by Ringhio (Napoli-Parma 1-2), the Azzurri won at Sassuolo and lost the next three, against Inter, Lazio and Fiorentina.
It seemed an irreparable situation and instead the stubbornness of Gattuso and the certainty that his job would sooner or later pay off, allowed him to choose the right training and win the game against Juventus. The definitive rebirth match, then 7 more matches with one, unexpected ko (Napoli-Lecce 2-3) and 6 wins.
Five of these, the latest in the series, are consecutive and, as a Napoli tweet reminds us “It was from February 28, 2018 that there was no similar streak of victories”. That was Sarri’s Napoli, coach who brought fun without the joy of a trophy he would have deserved, if the end of that season had been different from how (unfortunately) we were forced to live. Today Gattuso’s team is less flashy but more concrete, with a “title” already collected and the scenario of the Champions League in August which could offer other surprises and, perhaps, joys. Between the Naples of Sarri and that of Gattuso, 16 months of illusions, of confusion and the certainty that it is not enough to take a winning name for a walk to transform a good team into a scudetto group.
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