Feria quinta cinerum , the Thursday of the ashes of our football. Poor us: even the last survivor greeted the cups sadly and deservedly. The Milan , the Lazio , the Inter , the Rome , the Juve and now Napoli : after all we are more resolute than Theresa May, as we go out of Europe nobody comes out.
The E-League had the task of sensibly warming up the judgment on the first season of Ancelotti in Napoli; a rough season, alien to emotional turmoil, more of bitterness than satisfaction (elimination from the Champions and the one from the Italian Cup, the second place in the league at sidereal distances from Juve): it was for weeks the if, the but and the who knows of supporters and insiders, a sort of lifeboat launched by the optimism of the faith or by desperation.
He had this job, the cup, and he didn’t do it: abundantly forget the good tests with Liverpool at the San Paolo and Paris and above all canceled a start of season that authorized other hopes, other ambitions. The team that for three years had sent a score by heart gradually lost itself in the tactical changes and freedoms granted by an overwhelming technician everywhere but led to empowering the players, usually champions: unfortunately those of Napoli among many highs and some low ones have shown their limits, their fragility.
Of Italian in the semifinals of the second cup remains so Maurizio Sarri with the sarrismo translated in English, a couple of oriundi, Jorginho and Emerson , the little used Zappacosta and the inevitable comparisons fed by the outcome of the quarters.
Little to say about yesterday’s match: the first quarter of an hour in which Napoli seemed to have left home gaming notes alone: embarrassing: only Chiriches did not he had forgotten. The central minutes of the first half were a little better, but the thirty-sixth Lacazette imposed a miracle on Insigne and companions that was not fulfilled. In the second half, only pride, substitutions, elementary errors, anger and the Italian defense – yes, Italian – of Emery .
If this Napoli were not trained by Ancelotti we could talk about a negative season. The international prestige and the curriculum of Carlo authorize much more severe conclusions. Poor us, TV finalists. Is anyone offended if I now support Sarri ?
From: Corriere Dello Sport.
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