Naples, the gas reopened: now try to reopen the Scudetto speech
Seven points out of nine available from the beginning of the year and the return of key players. Spalletti aims to make the match of 13 February with Inter a hub for the Italian flag
The return of fundamental men, the beautiful test in Bologna, the 7 points out of 9 won in this 2022 show that Napoli is returning in its best version. Not the faded copy seen in December and fallen three consecutive times at home against Atalanta, Empoli and Spezia. At this point the question arises: are the Azzurri able to re-enter the championship fight? The answer is positive if the team can show continuity. In the next two rounds, straddling the stop for the national teams, Mertens and teammates close to Salernitana and Venice, teams fighting for salvation but certainly inferior to the Spalletti gang. If Napoli did full loot, the match against Inter, scheduled at Maradona on February 13, could become a full-fledged championship challenge. Also because by that date Koulibaly and Anguissa will have returned from the African Cup of Nations – in addition to Ounas – and with Osimhen who is regaining his condition Spalletti would find that backbone that kept Napoli at the top of the table for 15 rounds.
“Traitors” found
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And in the virtuous path of Napoli there is also Spalletti’s ability to immediately recover to the cause those that the square had “named” as “scapegoats” of the collapse in the Italian Cup against Fiorentina last Thursday. That is Lozano and Fabian Ruiz, both expelled in the frantic final of the second round of the Cup. Well, the coach recovered them in the head before the legs and the two in Bologna were definitely the best in the field. Fabian with his quality of play dispensed assists and nearly scored by hitting a sensational post from 25 meters. Casabella took to the field very motivated and, after nearly scoring the goal at the start, scored a good brace returning to scoring in the league after three months of fasting. Casabella explained: “The return for me was complicated after 15 days of isolation for Covid. The legs still need to improve”. Here, when judging on the ground, we must never forget everything that this cursed pandemic brings.
January 18 – 11:12
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