Lukaku to Napoli, Antonio Conte responds in press conference

At the end of the convincing victory against Bologna, Antonio Conte analyzed the match as follows: “Today we had a great responsibility, that of giving a great response after the second half in Verona. I had asked for great compactness from our fans, I had no doubt the Neapolitan fan will always preserve the visceral love for these colors. We still had to give a signal beyond all situations. I had no doubt, these guys are good guys. They are three points that are the beginning of our journey,  my first three points as Napoli coach at the Maradona. I got excited, I was very much looking forward to it”.

For some time there has been talk about the possible landing of Romelu Lukaku in Campania: “I hope that as soon as possible closes the market, for us coaches it is not è easy to create the chemistry and the sense of union. I am not saying anything because é it is not è official, I will talk about it when it is; as I did with Neres”.

“I am happy with Kvara, credit must be given to him for how he trains, the work givesà of fruits. Buongiorno we strongly wanted him, being young he can stay so many years in Naples and in the future he can become the captain when Di Lorenzo stops. Giovanni è was extraordinary today. Alessandro è strong in the defensive phase. I ask him for more confidence and courage in the possession phase. He’s been a great buy”

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“Today we shot a lot, we were very dangerous with Politano and Raspadori. Against these teams we tried the exits, if you come out well when they press you become dangerous. There’è to work and we will continue to do so” concluded Conte.

Roma knockout, Daniele De Rossi makes mea culpa

On Sunday night Roma è was defeated at home by surprise by Empoli. In the post-match Daniele De Rossi è spoke to Sky Sport: “Granted that then he will want to see it again, on the spur of the moment we lacked energy and intensity. Especially in the first half, the ball flowed slowly: when we went vertical, which è as we had prepared it, we were also dangerous”.

“When you play against teams that can close well, if you dribble slow and don’t do the preventive marking you lose spaces and take counterattacks, if you take goals you lose confidence. Then you don’t even turn your luck”.

The coach also made mea culpa: “It has to be done better training, there are many things that can be improved. You have to go hard, in soccer you have to go hard. And I have to be good at choosing who goes strong. In the second half we didn’t è that we did a particular tactic, we were desperate and we went off the rails: that’s howì you win, tie or get matches back on their feet”.

Among the most overshadowed Artem Dovbyk: “He has to be served deep, in space, with high ball: some pressure should be taken off him in the center of the area, if he fills it alone it becomes impossible for him to find the right spaces. Also in phrasing it seems to me that he did it a couple of times today: he needs to be served better”.

Napoli rears its head again, in Rome l’Empoli does a feat

Empoli’s big win over Roma: Sullo’s team (on the bench given D’Aversa’s disqualification) triumphed 2-1. Emmanuel Gyasi unblocked the match in the 45th minute, then Lorenzo Colombo doubled it in 61′ converting the penalty kick won after Paredes’s clumsy intervention.

Eldor Shomurodov shortened the gap in the 80th minute with a close-range header but it wasn&#39t enough. Very unlucky Paulo Dybala who hit the post in the last minutes of the match.

Raises its head again Napoli, which, after the ugly defeat against Hellas Verona, makes no mistake against Bologna and brings home 3 important points. Giovanni Di Lorenzo opened the scoring, scoring in the dying minutes of the first half, while the double was signed by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. The trio è was the work of Giovanni Simeone, scoring in 95′ on an assist from newly acquired David Neres.