Spalletti: “This Napoli has done something immense”

Show, victory, qualification. Maradona lives another magical night, which launches Napoli to the second round of the Champions League with two rounds to spare and full points. At the expense of this is Ajax again, who in the double confrontation have conceded ten goals from the Azzurri. A historic result for the club, which had never managed to pass the group with all this margin.

HAPPY SHOULDER

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Luciano Spalletti, however, prefers to share the merits. “I am the first coach to have guided the guys who were able to do something immense. In this qualification there is the desire and determination to do well in this competition. The players were good at absorbing all the charge of the environment, you are involved and dragged by the public, my head was almost spinning with the screams of the stadium ”, the coach told Sky Sport microphones at the end of the match. What impresses him is also a fun football, which favors aesthetics as much as effectiveness: “The patterns no longer exist in football, the spaces are no longer between the lines but between the opponents. It therefore becomes essential to know how to recognize them at the right times, with the courage to always start actions. The Champions League showed again how difficult it is: on the only distraction, with Anguissa injured, Ajax got the game back on its feet. Every time the pace dropped and we lacked continuity, they arrived in front of the goalkeeper ”.

MANY OPTIONS

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Osimhen’s return to the field also highlighted how the game proposal changes when the Nigerian leads the advanced department. “With Victor we do things differently, then we didn’t know where he was in terms of condition, because he did few trainings with us and not too intense given the many close matches. He’s pretty big on going forward and so he’s offside. Even if he did not participate as usual in the defensive phase, his entry was needed because without Anguissa it was necessary to stretch the team starting from the middle of the field: the opponents pressed well and starting from the bottom could be a risk. With Raspadori we certainly dribble more and better, he is the right player to play this game of 4-3-2-0 because every now and then he disappears in front of him and it is extraordinary when he realizes ”continued the coach.

GIOIA RASPADORI

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So, returning to the few smiles after the goal of the first leg, he replied to Fabio Capello who jokingly gave him an actor on that occasion: “I know the environment, sometimes I have to do what suits me (laughs, ed), but I’m a normal person “. The four goals in the Champions League speak for themselves: Giacomo Raspadori is relentless. “We wanted to continue like this, we made another victory with an important performance even if slightly lower than the previous ones. We wanted to approach the right way and we managed to do it, this allowed us to direct the game as we wanted. We have achieved an important milestone, but we want to continue growing, trying to limit mistakes. Races like this give us awareness and in front of an audience like this it is even more beautiful. It is a dream, I would never have imagined reaching the second round scoring so much, it is thanks to the team that is expressing such a high level of football that it provides so many opportunities for the forwards ”said the player.

TO BE EVALUATED

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The only negative note is Anguissa’s injury: Napoli has communicated that it is a muscle strain in the right thigh. The conditions of the midfielder will be evaluated in the next few days, but the exclusion is likely in view of the next match against Bologna.