Barcelona-Naples, Spalletti: “In these matches you become great”

“In these matches, more things are needed. It takes heart, knowing how to suffer, reading the right moments of the match. We must always try to be Napoli, always give our best. We must always offer good football, for the history of the club and of the team. city ​​of Naples. You become great through these games to be won. There is no different uniform between one competition and another. We can call them dream matches “, says Luciano Spalletti with conviction.

CHALLENGE WITHOUT ALIBI

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“If we want to go to the bottom, to give joy to the many fans who follow us so far, we have to achieve a result in Barcelona. We will not use a particular tactic. We want to show our brand. Then it is clear that we will have to defend ourselves and suffer.” He doesn’t look for excuses on absences. And speaking of Lozano’s absence, he says: “We have everything we need. We cannot depend on one player, no matter how strong he is. We have a squad to support the challenge.” Speech that can possibly be extended to Osimhen but on the Nigerian the technician explains: “On Tuesday at the end of training he had a pain in his knee, but he had completed it. Nothing muscular. Today I kept him at rest and on Thursday morning we will evaluate him. “.

PRAISE OF XAVI

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“A great who has been able to use precise space and time in his game in the middle of the field. He will have already given a lot of his knowledge and quality of when he was a footballer. He seems to me already at a good point. On the construction he always starts from the bottom, high defense and proactive football. And in January important players arrived to decide the matches, to give a break “.

FABIAN’S CHALLENGE

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“It will be a special match for our country, with me in Napoli and Gavi in ​​Barcelona. A special day for Los Palacios, since we were both born here. We hope to win and go through. It will be a ‘war’ on the pitch because both teams are used to holding the ball and playing for it. We will see, we will not change our attitude, this is our style of play. Barcelona is very strong, they want to win the Cup but we also want to move forward, we are a strong team. the season with some difficulties but they have many strong youngsters and in the winter market they have strengthened a lot “.