Naples, Conte: “Alisson? He is integrating. I would make a statue in Sant’Elmas…”

The three points, recoveries from Anguissa and De Bruyne, many excellent performances. The calm is returning to Napoli, and Antonio Conte is happy about it. “What makes me happy is that even if important players like Lobotka are missing, without taking anything away from the others, we never lose our way of being, our mentality and determination. And credit must be given to the boys, in an emergency there has always been a great response. Gilmour put in a masterful performance, everyone was good. We dominated a match which we found difficult for ourselves at the end, but I am very satisfied with the performance. They were three important points, against a Torino team which is a good team that will certainly do well” he explained the coach, interviewed by Dazn at the end of the success against the Granata.

the returns

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Despite the long absence, Anguissa and De Bruyne showed mastery of the pitch and good stability. Conte had been waiting for them for a long time. “It seems like they never left, but in reality it happened – said the coach with a smile – we didn’t find them for many months like Lukaku and Neres. The strength of this group is that however we never looked for an alibi for their absence and in doing so we won the Super Cup and remained high in the standings and it wasn’t at all a given. We are trying to recover the others, we hope McTominay returns and perhaps next week he could train with us. Clearly both De Bruyne and Lukaku will have to recover their condition, even though Kevin is already reasonably well so he came in seeing that there was great availability and I could see that he wanted to play. At the moment we can’t give gifts to anyone.”

statue

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Conte indulged in some praise, starting from those who arrived recently to those who knew how to grit their teeth during a complex period due to the injury emergency. “Alisson is getting into our mechanisms, we have to try to get him into his favorite areas of the pitch. I ask him not to be shy, he hasn’t been shy now, but in other games he has. I get angry if he does the simple thing if he has the chance to skip the man, not if he makes a mistake. He hadn’t started a game against Sporting, we’re happy. We’re also waiting for Giovane’s progress. Let’s not forget Saint Elmas, because a statue should be made for him. He understands football, he gets into things, he is flexible and plays both as a central midfielder and as an attacking midfielder, he is an amazing boy. He is in his 18th consecutive match as a starter, luckily we found him” he concluded.