Chapter 264 Chasing step by step
Naples' winter break this season is very quiet, and the team has no rookie athletes and no players left.
The situation in the Italian league can be seen. Even teams like Napoli do not have the ability to change their lineups, and it is even more unlikely for other small teams.
Perhaps only teams like the top three in the North can have funds to make the transfer market call for the wind and rain.
After a week of rest, the team will soon enter the training, and more of it is physical training. Watt is very clear about the upper limit of their team. Only as long as the players' physical condition is not a problem, they can chase something they want to chase.
Now that the Italian Cup has been eliminated, the only ones that Napoli can still fight for are the Champions League and the League, but they did not expect Juventus to give a big gift in the first game of the winter break.
On January 6, 2013, Juventus lost 1:2 to Sampdoria at home. No one expected that a team like Sampdoria was ranked 16th before the start of this game and had just passed the relegation zone.
But this is how the team has been overturning the league's top spot at Juventus Arena.
The young player Icardi became famous in one battle. The 19-year-old striker scored twice in this game and expressed his ambitions to Juventus' defense.
Naples, who is in the Stadium of Sao Paulo, faces the Roman team led by the Wolf King Totti.
Before this round of league starts, Roma ranked 6th in the league with 32 points, and there is only a 4-point gap between him and third in the league.
If they can win this game, of course they can narrow the distance with the top three teams again.
There is no way, who has given the current Serie A League only three places in the Champions League, and the third place has to play in the playoffs.
It's all Inter Milan's fault.
Napoli plays very openly at home, and Roma is not the kind of defensive team, so Napoli quickly scored a goal.
In the 4th minute, Kavani received a return pass from Pandev and pushed the ball into the penalty area.
Just 17 minutes later, it was Cavani again, but this time, he received a 45-degree pass from Gao Fei in the small penalty area and headed the ball through Roma's goal.
Cavani is fully fired today!
In less than 20 minutes, Roma scored two goals for the team. Roma was a little stunned in the rhythm. After the kick-off, the ball was controlled at their feet, and he didn't even know whether to attack or defend.
He won two yellow cards in a row, Pjanic and Toti each had one, and Campaniaro also paid one yellow card. In the 40th minute of the game, Desankris received a return pass from Gao Fei, but he held it in his hand and did not send it out.
The referee went up and gave him a yellow card to warn him. You are already two goals ahead, so there is no need to do such an action again. The warning is very meaningful.
Roma became more and more uncomfortable as he played. Totti and De Rossi ran back and forth in the midfield because they found that the ball was difficult to reach their feet again.
Naples' offense and ball control were too smooth, and this was the first time that Gao Fei felt that he played very easily on the court after Hamsik.
Zema Yili and Inle gave a lot of support in the midfield. Pandev and Cavani in front often retreated to the midfield to serve. The most important thing is that everyone passes the ball well and the players who catch the ball well.
This has caused a very interesting phenomenon. Naples is controlling the ball faster and faster, which is why Roma pays yellow cards in a short period of time.
At the beginning of the second half, Roma chose to substitute and strengthen the offensive strength. It seems that they have made tactical arrangements in the locker room and launched the offensive with all their strength.
However, Naples quickly poured them a basin of cold water. In the 57th minute, Pandev's header was swinging again. Cavani pushed the ball in with his knees in the small penalty area.
3 to 0
Cavani directly played a hat trick. Although Roma recovered a goal in the 70th minute, shortly after the goal was scored, midfielder Piacini was sent out with two yellow cards.
When he was 3-1 behind, he had to hit one less person, and even Totti was unable to make up for the situation.
Gao Fei and the others did not win. After leading 3-0, their speed slowed down a lot. In addition, Wat also made one or two personnel adjustments, and two young boys came on the bench to increase the team's vitality and also allow young players to have game experience.
Before the game ended, Marjoer scored a trolley outside the penalty area and the ball entered the net.
4 to 1
Napoli seized the key node of Juventus' loss of points and regained the three-point gap. Although there is still a 5-point gap, there is one thing that any distance gradually becomes smaller by this.
A week later, in the 20th round of the Serie A, Napoli carried a strong aura and once again defeated Palermo 3-0 at home.
Marjo, Inle and Insigne each scored a goal, and Gao Fei contributed two assists. Although Cavani did not score, he attracted the attention of Palermo's defensive players in the frontcourt and made a lot of contributions.
What Gao Fei and the others are even more happy is that Parma once again scored and tied Juventus 1-1 at home.
In this way, Naples has now reached 42 points, and is only three-pointer away from Juventus, which is topped by the top.
Parma is indeed the best friend of Naples. Every time he needs help, Parma can stand up.
"Juventus needs to be careful," Italian media began to criticize Juventus. "The defending champions are step by step firmly and steadily narrowing the distance with Juventus. Perhaps Juventus has not been at the top of the league for too long. They have forgotten how to sit firmly in this position."
"Conte's team has lost points recently, giving Napoli the opportunity to catch up. Now only one game is needed, Napoli can surpass Juventus and stand at the top of the league."
"From the situation in the previous few games, Naples began its own way of chasing points. Perhaps AC Milan will still remember how Naples were beaten step by step in the first two seasons."
"And once Naples gets the top spot, maybe they won't free up the position."
Cavani's performance has also been praised by many commentators. "Although Cavani scored a lot in the first two seasons, his glory was completely covered by Gao Fei. At the beginning of this season, Cavani began his crazy goal performance, and his strength was covered up before."
This report is problematic because he praised Cavani for how he scored the goal throughout the article, but did not mention Annie Gao's goal, with more than 70% of the assists coming from Gao Fei.
Chapter completed!