I was hoping Zielinski would get the nod over Allan, who looked poor throughout preseason. Forza Napoli!
It is clear we are still a few weeks behind them but fully control the game. Two defensive mistakes again. Ghollum should not take free kicks.
Napoli looked good early on but jesus christ is Callejon bad at finishing. Allan and Jorginho arent providing anything in the final third, Jorginho better than Allan but still wouldnt be surprised if we are unable to score, Nice has no interest other than parking the bus and counter attacking with St Maximin. Put in Zielinski and Diawara, we need goals
Go 1-0 up, pretend like we're already quailified... Hamsik and Allan need to show more quality! Granted Hamsik had a few good long balls. Callejon should've scored at least one but I've come to accept he is the kind of player where you never know what you're gonna get. It things dont change Zielinski or Milik have to come on early in the second half.
We need atleast 3, Nice will only be stronger with Balotelli and Snejder, we should be dominating and despite what the fs1 announcers are saying, we arent, Nice is playing exactly how they want to play against us.
If Allan is supposed to be a "ball winner" youd think he could actually get the ball back once or twice
absolute joke we didnt get that third goal. Insigne shouldve been subbed out NOT MERTENS, NEVER MERTENS WHEN HE PLAYS LIKE THIS!!!! fukn sarri EDIT: if we dont qualify Milik should leave the club just as a punishment... At least now he'll have to stfu about not getting playing time for the next six months
Horrendous finishing. We should've killed this tie off today. Zielinski playing for Hamsik wasn't a big loss. I still think we're huge favorites to advance. This was our first of 3 games in 7 days to start the season.
If Lorenzo playing like this didnt clearly magnify we need a good LW to back him up, not sure what else would. Only reason Mertens was subbed because we have no replacement for Insigne and Dries days of playing LW are probably done in Sarris eyes. Happy that Jorginho scored that penalty, we need someone competent who scores them every time. Dont give up on Milik yet either, he needs to play himself into shape, no excuse for that miss though, Dries by far best player for us
Good game. The season just started. We should have scored more but away we are as good as at home. We need a keeper (Reina did mistakes and does not cope well with long shots) and Hysaj needs competition. But we need to address the elephant in the room. I am talking about Milik. They guy is garbage. I never rated him. He scored a few goals last season and a hype started. He has not done much to convince and if we don't qualify it is on him. Sell him if you can recover the money.
https://calcioecibo.wordpress.com/ New blog that has a short review of tonight's game if anyone wants to give it a read and follow.
Do you really think he will? Mertens is too good and I rather Mertens plays all games. Milik has had half a year and he did not prove himself. He would have been exposed earlier if it was not for his injury. With Sarri's management of the situation he will just lose confidence and value. It seems he wants to go to Marseille. I say sell him.
Weren't at our best but didn't concede an away goal. We've been better on the road in CL and EL under Sarri... let's get into the CL"
Even if Milik doesn't score goals he needs to fill out his role in "Sarriball" - he's not doing that atm. Too static, doesn't initiate pressure, (often) sloppy in link up play, doesn't create space to teammates with his movement. Though good at holding on to the ball he needs to do better with it so he can be better at holding up play for Napoli. Besides his goals back when the big Milik hype happened I wasn't too impressed with his performances on the pitch, but he somehow always managed to score goals. He is big and strong and a decent finisher, but needs to work with all the above to become a better player. He still has a role to play for Napoli