Sassuolo 0-2 Napoli: Raffaele Auriemma’s take on the match | OneFootball

Sassuolo 0-2 Napoli: Raffaele Auriemma's analysis

While waiting to see how competitive Juventus (tonight) and Inter (tomorrow) are, Napoli has confirmed that nothing has changed compared to last season. In fact, there's even more.

His name is Kevin De Bruyne, who delivered a champion performance against Sassuolo, fully serving the team and the schemes devised by Antonio Conte. The Belgian superstar alternates with McTominay in the role of attacking midfielder and left winger "high". Then, when it's necessary to escape the opponents' grip, he "drops" down to create a double play with Lobotka.

And if a goal needs to be scored from a dead ball, he imagines a parabola that ends in the goal, leaving everyone stunned. In short, Lukaku is not there and will certainly be replaced next week, but in the meantime, the Italian champions have shown that they could repeat themselves immediately. Although it won't be easy.

For two reasons. The first 10 games of the team that wears the championship badge on their jerseys usually enjoy the long wave generated by the championship won three months earlier. But the season will be infested with commitments that didn't concern Napoli last year, and the stress of playing (and traveling) every three days must be absorbed and managed in the most correct way. Then, finding a central striker who immediately enters the team's connective tissue to turn the opportunities provided by the luxurious midfield into goals, even Lucca would have all the time to become a valuable pawn.

Without falling into triumphalism, today no opponent is giving the impression of contesting the primacy of this Napoli, which has only one great protagonist: Don Antonio Conte.

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