Kvaratskhelia – Osimhen (photo Lapresse)
Naples third championship, the report cards
After the postponement of the Sunday party against Salernitana (with Dia’s goal in the final that had frozen the Diego Armando Maradona stadium) Napoli wins the third Scudetto in its history, 33 years after the last triumph. A deserved and never questioned success, Luciano Spalletti’s team dominated this championship from start to finish.
The report cards of Affaritaliani.it of the third championship of Napoli
Victor Osimhen vote 10 – The masked man has become a superhero. The Nigerian striker this year has consecrated himself as a world-class centre-forward: even more than the avalanche of goals (21 in 25 appearances and even 5 assists to please), he is one of those very few centre-forwards around who make up the ‘department alone’. With someone like this you play with 12 players even when it’s not the same day
Luciano Spalletti vote 10 His Napoli was an authentic steamroller team: best attack in Serie A for detachment and best defense. An almost invincible army that for months and months seemed to have no weaknesses. The coach from Certaldo (also) has the merit of having been able to lead the group to the finish line without there having been – during a long and complicated year (unprecedented: with the World Cup in between) – great moments of (physiological) decline : just a minimum in the last few weeks, but after such an exhilarating ride it can be granted. This Italian Scudetto (he had already won two national titles in Russia leading Zenith St. Petersburg) is credit to a coach who has been among the best in Italy and Europe for years.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia vote 9 Twelve goals and 12 assists in the league: a lot of quality and added value from the 22-year-old Georgian taken last summer from Dinamo Batumi for around ten million. A sensational market hit that turned into pure gold on the field. In the second part of the season the opposing defenses systematically doubled him up managing to contain him a minimum more than at the scorching start of the championship, but when he points the man his dribbling always hurts the opposing defenders a great deal.
Lobotka-Anguissa-Zielinki and the Napoli midfield vote 8 A hinge that protected the defense a thousand times flawlessly, giving Napoli superiority in the middle of the field many times. If Osimhen, Kvaratskhelia and the forwards were able to put on a show (also assisted by quality wingers like Politano and Lozano: vote 7) is thanks to the lungs of Lobotoka, the physicality of Anguissa, the insertions of Zielinski and the sacrifice of a group that has always raced in a single direction: the one that at the final finish line gave Napoli the third Scudetto in its history
Kim Min-jae vote 8 The 26-year-old Korean defender deserves a special mention: he arrived a year ago from Fenerbahçe to take over Koulibaly’s difficult legacy, and he has proved to be a true leader in the center of the Neapolitan rearguard. Impenetrable wall. Around him, Napoli built the formidable and (almost) impenetrable Italian defense
DI Lorenzo vote 8 – An all-round season: impeccable in defense and always ready to lend a hand and numerical superiority on the right with his introductions to the team on the offensive front (but what a job also on the part of Mario Rui – And Olivera – vote 7.5 to the left front of Napoli). A special championship won as captain, wearing the colors of a team with which he has already made it known that he wants to end his career.
Meret rating 7.5 – A bunker defense up front and the maturity of the great goalkeeper who is ready when called upon to make the classic ‘cold’ intervention
De Laurentiis – Giuntoli vote 10 cum laude It almost makes you smile when you think back to some judgments that circulated last summer after the farewells of Mertens, Insigne, Koulibaly and Fabian Ruiz: Napoli was indicated as a team in the running to qualify for the next Europa League. Instead, the incoming transfer market was spectacular: not only Kim or Kvara, but also high-quality replacements who would be owners in 90% of Serie A teams (from Simeone to Raspadori) and the ability to have built a team hungry for success and without major weaknesses in pink. For patron De Laurentiis it is a well-deserved championship after having already touched it at the time of Sarri.
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