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Within hours of the decisive match for the Europa League semi-finals, Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis spoke at the end of the UEFA lunch with the Arsenal executives held in the splendid setting of Palazzo Petrucci in Posillipo. “We have an extraordinary group of guys who always gave their best. In one season there may be moments of fogging but I did not frighten or tear my hair. Ancelotti is…

Within hours of the Europa League quarter-final return match against Slavia Prague, Maurizio Sarri surprises everyone. No statement to scream or choice of early training, but the Tuscan yesterday deserted the press conference for the presentation of the European match for a health problem that had initially suspected the present and the fans. Chelsea, however, made it clear: the former Napoli coach needed a little dental surgery that didn’t allow…

Arsenal leaves the harsh temperatures of London and arrives in a Napoli that welcomes the English team with the spring sun. Even Pierre Aubameyang, a striker and star of the Gunners, who immediately arrived in the city, immediately took a picture of the panorama from his room posting it on social media. The profile of Castel dell’Ovo with the gulf and the waterfront to frame his photo, the first shot…

A day of hope, where believing will make the difference. Napoli wakes up with their heads at Arsenal and tonight’s match at the San Paolo which will be important for the Azzurri. Carlo Ancelotti’s team wants to raise its head after the heavy passive of 0-2 of the first leg in London and wants to do it in front of the home crowd who expects a night to remember. Buongiono,…

Professor Wenger, who more than the last coach decade had become a kind of talent scout, to convince him to say yes to Arsenal sent him to take with a private jet in Cardiff. It was 2008. Eleven years later, Aaron Ramsey leaves Arsenal on a free transfer but no one there he calls him a traitor or invokes for him a place on the bench. It will be one…

Among the first to enter the field for finishing the afternoon, smiling, confident: Lorenzo Insigne wants to push Napoli towards a historic enterprise, dreams of a magical night at San Paolo. A special match, the Neapolitan will celebrate the 300 blue jersey presences: this season, the seventh Napoli has so far scored 13 goals, 9 in the league, three in Champions League and one in the Europa League. The new…