Verona-Napoli, Spalletti: “Osimhen is a top. Vlahovic? I don’t make comparisons”

Luciano Spalletti had defined it as “fatal” for the Scudetto, a few minutes before the kick-off, to underline the importance of the match with Verona in the run-up to the top. And his Napoli responded in the best way, after the misstep with Milan, winning three fundamental points dragged by the brace of the usual Osimhen. “Victor is a top footballer, he has everything on his side, not just age: he’s also a good guy. Sometimes he has a few too many reactions, but that’s because he feels very involved. He still does not have the right perception of the opponents, he sometimes lacks the ability to decide in the right way when to do the bank and when instead to control to pick up the team. He can keep five defenders apprehensive on his own thanks to his speed. He still has to take a few steps forward. Vlahovic? I do not compare, he is a champion, if a club like Juventus buys him it means that he has everything to play at certain levels ”, said the coach to Dazn’s microphones.

THE RACE ANALYSIS

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“We played a good game – continued the coach – with attention and sacrifice when necessary, knowing how to bring out the character that we sometimes lack. Tudor is doing a great job, he is coaching Verona perfectly: every player always knows what to do with and without the ball, they are really strong. Being ready in the face of these difficulties was a good sign of the team that has earned its bread with this performance. If we manage to maintain this level, we have the possibility to insert ourselves up there ”.

DIFFICULT DAYS

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Having beaten an organized and fit formation like Verona is a great sign of recovery. Spalletti did not hide the sense of liberation for the tension experienced this week: “It was very heavy, the right enthusiasm was recreated in the environment and in the match that could give us the visa to fight until the end for the championship. we failed to be ourselves, even for a bit of bad luck. Milan were good at staying on top of us and taking advantage of a situation that we could have avoided, when people’s feelings collapse then you suffer it. Despite the sorrow, however, they always incite us in the same way, even when the bitterness is great. Now we have to look only at ourselves, making lots of attention, strength and continuity, maybe putting something more into it. The square wants it and the situation is stimulating, we still have important possibilities “.

THE NEW MIDFIELD

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For the occasion, the coach experimented with a pure three-way midfield, excluding Zielinski from the starting eleven. “He has missed a match, he just has to continue training as he always has, maybe with more strength if he wants to aim for important trophies. If he doesn’t play once he doesn’t do anything, it can happen in a squad like this. Then we almost never had Anguissa, between injuries and the Africa Cup. After the tournament he came back a bit dazed, between travel and all the rest. Even Koulibaly himself needed some time to get back to his usual levels of quality and performance ”concluded Spalletti.