On Sunday the super challenge between the two at the top of the standings and in the city is general mobilization
It will be a particular night, intense, like the emotions that Naples is about to experience. It is a long eve that will lead to the super match against Milan. And it will be accompanied by the rhythms of a city in turmoil for what the Neapolitans consider the event of the year. The lights of Maradona will illuminate the hopes and ambitions of this Napoli, in search of a definitive identity, which can keep it in play for the championship until the last day. The mobilization is general, even if the balance seems to have prevailed over popular passion. The fans believe it, but they prefer to wait for the outcome of the direct match before anything else. Fuorigrotta will guarantee his jolts, while the people are ready to support the effort of Luciano Spalletti’s boys. Those who are not at the stadium will organize themselves in their homes, discouraged by the trade union ordinance which limits the closing times of bars and restaurants in the busiest streets of the city. Meanwhile, on social media, the euphoria for the last-minute victory over Lazio has not yet been disposed of. The Neapolitans cry out for the renewal of Fabian Ruiz author of a ‘razor better than Sweeney Todd’, while someone is already beginning to regret Insigne and ask De Laurentiis for an account. Another part of the fans looks to the next direct match and launches an appeal to the team: “Let’s not be stupid on Sunday evening”.
Sold out
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A bit of apprehension is natural, even if the great challenges have never frightened, they have always been faced with the pride and awareness of a competitiveness that, this year, is characterizing the fight at the top, in Serie A. The Maradona will be sold out, 42 thousand spectators who will attend this direct clash ready to load and give the necessary support to inspire against an opponent with whom Napoli shares the primacy in the standings. Organized groups are working on some initiatives that should make these eve days more evocative. It is not excluded that the team bus will be escorted by hundreds of scooters on the way that divides the hotel, which will host the pre-race retreat in the city center, from Fuorigrotta.
The challenge
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Napoli-Milan, therefore, still the two of them. A challenge that brings to mind the Neapolitan people that first May 1988, when the Rossoneri’s victory, at the then San Paolo, allowed them to overtake in the standings and to spin straight towards the Scudetto. A burning defeat, which Diego Maradona only metabolized over time. That afternoon, Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan was overflowing with its best men. Gullit, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Baresi, Costacurta, Maldini shattered the desires of that Napoli, convinced that he could repeat the feat achieved a year earlier, winning the first championship in the history of the club. That defeat thwarted the project. And the Sunday night match is intended as a real rematch.
March 1 – 2:31 pm
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