Maurizio Sarri
This is not the real Napoli, no, it’s not.
This team has a striker able to score 36 goals in less, lost his heir because of an injury, and at the moment, it has to renounce to the other striker of the team, who is not even a real attacker. I refer to the Argentinian, to Milik and to Gabbiadini. Sarri has to work with an abnormal attack of miniature footballers. They look like the copy of themselves, they look like the small statues we see in Via San Gregorio Armeno, the historical neapolitan street of the nativity scenes. These small men are however able to give satisfactions and what a satisfactions!
This team lost the defense leader whose recovery times have unfortunately lengthened. We refer to Albiol who maybe today will return to training with the group. Definitely absent against Juventus, perhaps even against Besiktas.
This team has players that you are not esprimenndo to their levels,
or at least to the levels of last season. We refer for example to Hjsay. Great, his last year in Napoli. At the time, instead, he has few difficulties. We do not know yet which footballer he is, if the one seen last season, the one we are seeing now, or something in between. Only time will tell it.
We refer also to Jorginho, everyone requested him in the Italian team in occasion of the last European competition. Instead now, many would like to see him on the bench in favor of Diawara. We know the Italo-Brazilian a little better, and we are certain that the real Jorginho is that of the 2015/2016 season. We expect his return to its better performance levels.
Then there is Allan, the engine of the midfield, this year tends sometime to turn himself off. To tell the truth, the continuity does not seem to be his better quality. Maybe we must get used to a footballer who goes to intermittently
Finally Insigne. Last year scored and donated assists to his teammates, but today is a sad footballer. Off the pitch because of the increase of salary and of the new agreement which do not arrive, at least according to what are the expectations of the Neapolitan footballer and his agents, but also on the pitch.
This is not the real Napoli.
The real Napoli is what we will see when they will be recovered the injured footballers, and when those who have made the recent history of the team, will recover the optimum fit. Yet, despite this, we are third in the standings. Only four points behind the leader, and in line with what we had done at this point of the season last year, but with the Europa League in less, and more the Champions…
All these reasons make us optimistic about the future. Saturday for example, you never know,