Il successo di Empoli conferma la forza della squadra di Spalletti che ora può puntare al record di punti in campionato
Any judgment on the seasonal path of the Napoli it risks ending up in rhetoric or in what has already been said. There could be rely on the numbers, At that time. But even these do not explain everything even if they speak, in black and white, of 8 wins in a row e you 65 points out of 72 available in the league, a domain that, in the last few years of Serie A, has only been seen with Capello’s Juventus in 2005/06 (championship then canceled by Calciopoli), with that of the record for points (102) of Conte in ’13/’14With the’Mancini’s Inter from ’06/’07 and with the Allegri’s Juventus from ’18/’19. All dominatrixes with contemplative partners of an almost embarrassing superiority.
As is obvious, however, there is more. And that extra comes from a summer in which the Giuntoli-De Laurentiis duo set up a formation that seemed inferior to that of the previous year, and handed it over to a coach who found the perfect synthesis of the
ideas that brought him into the empyrean of our local technicians. Of Naples we appreciate the beauty that joins the concrete. If it were easy, everyone would do it, but the Azzurri’s season comes from afar, from i
goddesses that update and adapt to the qualities of the players. The leaders can do everything. She can leave the initiative to her opponents and then smash them with balls vertically for a speed of
Osimhen e
Lozanodepth sought with prepared actions (such as those on cuts or straight runs from the right winger or those that bring out a central player to leave the Nigerian in one-on-one with only one defender), can press high and restart at one- two touches, take advantage of Kvara’s dribbling ability on the left, use low wingers inside the field or wide, occupy spaces between opposing players (and not only between departments as Spalletti claims), as when you see deep insertions in full area of those arriving from behind.
In short, Napoli has
a thousand weapons,
between individual qualities and an out of the ordinary collective maturity. The championships are races in stages and the management of forces is fundamental. Not only resorting to the dosage of energy, given that in Empoli, for example, the typical training was staged, with the changes arriving only in the final twenty minutes after Mario Rui’s expulsion.
Strength can also be saved by managing the game, without forcing too much, scoring immediately and then refusing. Precisely this ability to know how to move according to different scripts and styles makes Napoli unstoppable. The beautiful game alone was never enough. Of course, it serves to satiate the pupil of aesthetes, but for long competitions you must also know how to show different registers, also because in current football the opponents study you and know how to find counter-moves. Expedients that, at the moment, do not seem to work against this Napoli. Now the countdown begins and, perhaps, at the right time, you will really be able to fully understand and appreciate a
company destined to enter the history of our football.
