Even show between Naples and Rome, but the final outburst of the Livorno coach is especially striking. The lessons of the Maradona match: when the starters return it is easier for everyone.
Max Allegri gave his best at the end when he got tired of being pulled by the jacket and with a surge of (humanly understandable) annoyance he decided to pass bag and baggage into the party of the gamers. From now on, beware of calling him a defensive player and not only because his Napoli struggle to defend while finding the opponent’s goal with a certain continuity (7 goals scored between Bodo Glimt and Roma in the most difficult moment of the autumn). Woe betide him to do so because the new manifesto of cheerfulness – nervous – was dictated with a hot blow as soon as he received a comeback equalizer which smacks of half a mockery at the hands of Roma and a red called by the fourth official Sacchi and executed by the referee Colombo which he did not digest.
Take note. Question about the negative numbers in the defensive phase, the 17 goals conceded in the first 11 outings of the season. Answer: “I have never changed the way I play. Now I want to all play on the attack.” Since? “Since the beginning of the season. If I can, I’ll also add four forwards.” Which isn’t true while it’s clear that his Napoli is anything but speculative and he’s also a little annoyed at having labels from the past stuck to him.
And then the part referring to the expulsion: “From now on I sit on the bench and I don’t move anymore. Every time I move I get sent off. Last year I think I paid 80 thousand euros in fines. I see others who overturn everything and nothing happens. I thank Sacco… Saccani… what’s his name? Saccani? Nothing. For the rest of the match, congratulations to the boys”.
Here are the compliments to share with Gian Piero Gasperini’s Roma. It was a great show: 39 conclusions, 13 on target, 6 goals and a concentration of emotions and reversals that ennoble the Italian championship, confirming the trend of this season in which we think about playing rather than standing there to defend and speculate. Even at the cost of not being able to hold on to advantages that seem to be carved in stone.
At least this should be granted to Max Allegri, who came out furious and without a jacket for the final protest after seeing Balerdi puncture the innocent Meret for the second time (first goals in Italy), canceling a victory that would have been a balm on Napoli’s wounds.
Gian Piero Gasperini is happy for having escaped danger, but let it not be said that he stole the little point he took from Maradona which allows him to remain unbeaten in the championship. Roma never gave up, even when they seemed lost. She got back up by going beyond the current limits, which was also the cause of absences, and in the end she was rewarded by an Argentine defender taken from the bench, the same one that had gone haywire against Mourinho’s Real Madrid once the starters left.
Allegri will be tried for not winning. He will have to answer for the crime of failure to defend and will be weighed for a ranking that remains largely deficient. However, some elements will be able to bring him, given that at the moment of maximum crisis he managed two matches against Bodo Glimt. One at random? Scott McTominay had to stop due to heart problems and when he put his head and feet back at Napoli’s disposal he scored two braces in a row between the Champions League and the championship. What would have been with him in the previous weeks?
Reasoning that must also apply to Gasperini and a Roma that has learned to go beyond absences and which should be extended to those, for example Spalletti, who are grappling with a decimation that does not respect any program and takes away breath, energy, men. Moral: Allegri isn’t boiled, perhaps Spalletti isn’t either, but the news is that he’s tired of hearing that.
