Spalletti: “Napoli were stronger. Juve were too timid. Yildiz can do more”

An immortal story that slipped into indifference: a few whistles when his name was announced by the speaker and, then, inside the Diego Armando Maradona he looked at, and thought about, the ball. Luciano Spalletti’s return ended like this: Juventus defeated and postponed. «A failure for us? Maybe… we need to understand if we will be able to get to that level…”, says the former coach of the Grande Bellezza blue championship. The level there is that of a team, now led by Antonio Conte, quite a bit distant from the Juventus world. “We were too timid at the start and then scholastic when the match put us back in the centre: if we miss so many balls, you inevitably suffer…”, underlines Spalletti again.

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An immortal story (Luciano dixit) without special effects on the day Juventus lands in Naples for its final exams. «I love those who applauded me and I will also love those who booed me…», so the great ex. Spalletti speaks of a «race that we missed. They – he continues – were going full speed and if you don’t hide the ball from them they’ll get in your way. The module chosen at the beginning? It can be repeated, we have the characteristics to do it, but the movements must be faster by those who play up front and not predictable.” Yes, the race: in the belly of Maradona on physical and mental speed the close encounter between the two leaders takes place. «Congratulations… how much you run», said Luciano to Conte. Spalletti and the recent past: breaking away is a complicated task. «What we have achieved has also had an economic impact: how much money we have put into the company’s coffers for our work, for valued players, for everything that has happened… money to also build the new Napoli», underlines the coach from Certaldo. Napoli sings, Juve questions themselves: the appointment to feel older goes to the archives without smiles and with a few more doubts. Naples is celebrating, Juve will have to turn the page quickly: in a few hours here is the duel with Pafos for the sixth stage in the first phase of the Champions League. «We can do better, I’m sure of that. We can and we must: Yildiz can do more, Zhegrova is a fifteen-minute player at the moment”, specifies a coach who had tried to surprise with a surprise tactical move, but the mission remained unsuccessful. Napoli toasts, Juve must reset. «My emotions were, however, incredible: when this stadium starts chanting certain chants that I know by heart, a unique atmosphere is created…», Spalletti’s exit from the scene. An immortal story “it is forever”: the great return of the coach of the Great Beauty slipped into the indifference of Maradona.