The coach and the Olimpico’s 0-2 against Lazio: “Neres? Let’s wait for tomorrow… Now we’ll play every three days and there are few rotations. Reinforcements? Last year I said ‘We won’t do any damage’… The club knows… I’m silent”
Napoli’s 2026 starts in the right gear. Antonio Conte’s team defeated Lazio, without losing ground at the top. “I have to compliment the team, in such a difficult match we played at the Olimpico with such technical clarity and physical strength, leaving little to our opponents. We were good and prepared. We played a match of a very high quality level” explained the coach with satisfaction. The only sore point is the injury to David Neres, which could extend the list of unavailable players. “We have to wait until tomorrow and understand the extent of the problem with the investigations. We hope it is nothing serious, because this year we have been facing large defections for a long time.”
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The Azzurri confirmed an excellent moment of form, with a very solid performance. “When you have time to prepare for matches, you try to enhance the characteristics of your players and find the spaces to strike. The interpretation of the match was exceptional. If only we had scored one more goal no one would have cried foul, perhaps we are lacking a bit in the attacking phase, we could achieve more. But we are doing very well, I’m really happy because hardly anyone could have thought, despite all the absences and with limited men, that we would do such important things” continued Conte. Now, however, the situation is becoming more complicated, because the close commitments will increase. “We are getting important victories, with high quality. We have to continue like this, I know it won’t be easy because we will play every three days and there are few rotations, let’s hope we don’t pay the consequences.”
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January is the month of the winter transfer market, but Conte doesn’t want to know about it at all. “I won’t touch on this topic, last year I said ‘Let’s not do any damage’ and we sold Kvaratskhelia. The management knows my thoughts, it’s clear for everyone to see what we’re doing and with whom, everyone knows the recovery times of those who are unavailable. Then I’m the coach and I have to make the best of the resources I have, the demands on me are always very high, so I and the whole team will always do our best” he concluded.
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