Napoli has a great team! This is a credit to Spalletti and ADL. If they can maintain for another 20 games, they will easily win the scudetto.
There's a tight stretch March 11 to the 19th with two midtable games, and the second leg with Frankfurt just before an international window where Osi will presumably play two games with Nigeria in cup of nations qualifying, and Napoli comes back to host Milan April 2. It will be tricky. The Coppa semifinal first legs are also a couple days later, although of course it's early to worry about that.
Can someone direct me to the rivalry thread? I have some unfinished business. Or did it finally implode?
I won't care about the Coppa Italia exit if we beat Salernitana this weekend. Our next 5 games before our R16 tie against Frankfurt: @ Salernitana vs Roma @ Spezia vs Cremonese @ Sassuolo With the lead we've built the team just needs to take games one at a time, 3 points against Salernitana will count the same as the 3 we could pick up against Roma. This should be our year.
It appears Salernitana's fired coach was unfired yesterday. They've been fairly unpredictable. A draw at Juventus, win at Lazio, an 8:2 loss at Atalanta. Like a box of chocolates, you never know exactly what you'll get, but it will almost certainly be colored brown. Out of 20 historical matches, 8 wins, 9 draws, and 3 losses for Napoli since 1945/1946, most of that history in Serie B.
Bottom feeder teams are the most dangerous. They’ll fight tooth and nail not to be sent back down to Serie B.
^ *Rui not Run.* The players want to bag goals and assists. It was for the taking against a Salerno team that rolled over in a little under 50 minutes. Spalletti has cultivated a tremendous sense of desire to achieve great things among the players.
Dzeko is Inter's best forward rn. That says it all really. I can see them missing top 4 at this rate. Roma, Lazio and Atalanta are capable of making them miss it.
I was curious so I calculated the table among the top seven teams (included Juventus). Of note, five of six Napoli games in this table were played away. Code: Pd W D L Pts GF GA GD Napoli 6 5 0 1 15 12 5 +7 Lazio Roma 6 4 0 2 12 10 6 +5 Juventus 6 2 2 2 8 10 11 -1 AC Milan 6 2 2 2 8 9 10 -2 Inter 6 2 0 4 6 8 12 -4 AS Roma 6 1 2 3 5 5 7 -2 Atalanta 6 1 2 3 5 8 11 -3