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Gazzetta - Napoli, signs of continuity with the past! Difficult to take on such a team

Powerful signs of continuity with the recent, happy, past. At the 12th minute of the second half, here's the new: Kevin De Bruyne. Legend has it that he gets them made in Fabriano: drawing shoes. In fact, he brushes a poisonous parabola. If someone deflects it into the net, good, otherwise it goes into the net on its own. Exactly. This is Napoli at its debut: like before, more than before. Kevin D'Artagnan has been added without giving up the three musketeers (Lobotka, Anguissa, McTominay). Of course, more reliable tests than Sassuolo will be needed, which seemed defeated already in the head, but Napoli started well, hungry as Conte wants. A year ago, the champion Inter stumbled immediately in Marassi. Napoli is too fluid to be trapped by numbers. We say 4-1-4-1 because Lobotka is lower than everyone else and often sets up between the two centrals, with the fullbacks that rise immediately.

But then De Bruyne messes everything up, because, if he goes down to get the ball to set up, the 4-3-3 is composed, if instead he goes up behind Lucca, to devise from the attacking midfielder, here is the 4-2-3-1. But that's not enough, because McTominay also collaborates to form what Fascetti called "organized chaos". He starts wide on the left, but in fact he is the real second striker of Napoli and commutes between the wing and the center of the area. This fluidity is the strength of the new Napoli: rotations that continuously move the pieces and ask the various interpreters to assume different functions. Difficult to take on such a team.

Carlo Gioia

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