The three reasons for Ancelotti's Naples crisis

You cannot be distracted for a moment (what do you want it to be seventeen days) to realize that you have left the antechamber of Paradise and having been thrown into the jaws of hell: and now that around there are tongues of fire that wrap around, even before they remain only rubble, the only authentically possible call, in a city that is rediscovered upside down, is in the magic of that fusion disappeared – no one knows how, we don't even know why – at any moment. One day suddenly, those various shades of blue – it would have been fifty thousand, some less or even more – the chemistry that represented energy to believe even to be able to realize impossible dreams, has evaporated, shattered by a division that is a bit clear and very nostalgic that he dug a furrow and left in the St. Paul of Napoli v Genoa just 22.947 spectators. (…)

The numbers of Napoli are disappointing

But do statistics count or not? It is the history of always, a bit of that of the glass, which everyone interprets in his own way: and if it is true that what computers suggest is not religion, it is equally indisputable that in those numbers you have to go and read them. The simple, simple parameters are always the same, if desired, and in Napoli v Genoa – Saturday night – something strange, unusual, unique, rare happened: 42.5% ball possession, the seasonal minimum. Napoli is not him, another fact: he made 19 pitches during the match, in no other in-house competition did the Blues have done less in this league. In Rome, for one thing, even in defeat, in the wide pauses, in the contradiction of an afternoon full of voids, it was the 56.7%. And with Atalanta, in the last version full of authority, it was 50%. The Naples has disappeared from itself, from its own codes, has stopped playing, to be master of the games, even those which, humanly, we were part of some blunder, was a mistake of the individual or a bland interpretation. With the Genoa, the Naples he broke up, he conceded, he didn't find the rhythm or even the strength to hide his fears, always playing with an extra touch, not finding out not only the verticality of a football that Ancelotti he pursues but not even the sensitivity to dominate himself, even before Genoa. And this time there was no need for the magnifying glass, nor for the figures, to discover that pallor and flickering.

Naples lacks personality

"Courage, one, if you don't have it, you can't do it». And it cannot end like this, always looking for a non-existent personality, the "vice", the defect, call it what you want, of a team that in its absolute "immensity»Technique – a talent that has opened up the scudetto over and over again, the authority to annoy Liverpool but also the PSG or whoever you want to include in the analysis – then it simply sinks into its character" laziness ". The calm leader can add – and must – his own football culture, not just educational knowledge to get himself out of trouble, but the rest must think about the Naples, in its exuberance to go to find among the folds of urchins that have been such, and how many times, and that instead against the Genoa, but also with the Rome, to Ferrara, they got lost, trembling in front of balloons that suddenly started to burn any form of idea that might have germinated. The problem has always been psychological though Freud he cannot enter the field, nor offer himself as lateral support for an identity crisis that is emerging fearfully now, and that in that seemingly positive streak – the last four league games – has offered just three points. You don't need a bed, or even remember it don Abbondio, but a reaction.

Market, the rose is incomplete

Put what you see, that is the performance, put what you can't see, and it would be the unkempt thoughts of the individual, put in what happened, the rebellion against a withdrawal that at this point perhaps becomes a topic for reflection, and then put also what didn't happen, the postponements on the contracts. Put everything in the centrifuge or, even in the fan, and the chaos of one comes out very sad November for a Naples, but also for a Naples, which fails to believe and not even get over it. Put everything there, without excluding anything, in the on-board computer, which may perhaps help to understand what is hidden in this colossal confusion: however, up until two weeks ago, to Salzburg, at least there was the tactical coherence and a lightness that served to be able to resist. But at a distance, the difficulties of those who, like Lozano, arrived late, after an injury, with a preparation that proved to be approximate and on which, playing every other day as well, it was not possible to intervene, emerged. The summer, and whoever would have suspected it !, ended up taking away from the Naples his spine – Koulibaly, Allan is Milik – everyone late for a reason, some for the cup of Africa, who for that of America, who for muscle soreness which forced to slow down, even to stop. And now in the puzzle there are always a couple of pieces missing and the Naples by Ancelotti, for this reason, he realized he was unfinished (and probably had one less midfielder).

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