Let’s start from Naples which gives us the numbers to play the Lotto. Six games, six wins. Six for three 18’s and everyone else is under. Milan with two points and Inter with four. It is a big party under Vesuvius with Neapolitan fans who sing and play as in the days of Diego Armando.
Even the icy president De Laurentiis smiles. And God forbid. With two slaps to Cagliari (the first by Osimhen, the second by Insigne on a penalty) Napoli takes back the first place and launches a warning to everyone: attention, friends of the North, this time we will not do as with Sarri in 2017-18, when at the end Juventus pulled the Scudetto under our noses. This time, we will also play the mandolin for you in the championship. Or at least, as they say in the alleys, we will be “careful” not to make the same mistakes again.
Napoli goes down like a limoncello
Great Naples. It goes down like a limoncello. The one who prepares it is Victor Osimhen who gives the Neapolitan fans another magical evening by signing the first goal and getting the penalty then scored by Lorenzo Insigne. But it is all of Naples with Anguissa and Zielinski that evaporates the remains of Cagliari. Spalletti, more and more tanned, has created a jewel that wins by cashing in very few goals. His is the best defense in the league. Okay, we are only at the sixth, the road is long and Naples is a square of a thousand colors that is easy to lose your head. But one thing is certain: continuing to win wears out others.
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First home win for Juve
The second news comes from Juventus: they manage to win for the second consecutive time. It hadn’t happened yet in Turin. It is not a small thing, let’s face it, also because this time he beat Sampdoria, a team that, being from Genoa, does not give anything to anyone. Even with the Sampdoria, Allegri’s team wins by scoring three goals and conceding two. As with the spice. So the second good news for Madama’s fans is that the bianconeri, even without Ronaldo, have an easy goal. The less good one, apart from Dybala’s new thigh injury, is that Juve gets a lot of goals. Too many for a team that with Allegri has always favored the “result” over aesthetics. (“To see the show you go to the circus,” the Livorno coach said with irony, teasing Sarri’s Napoli). At this point, given that the Bianconeri still have plenty of attackers (Chiesa, Dybala, Morata, Moise Kean), it will be more appropriate for Allegri to draw the obvious consequences: that he uses them properly, practicing a much more offensive football. A football, less crowded with spoilers in midfield, a football that returns to frighten the opponents. For someone like Allegri, Massimo priest of cynicism, this will be a heresy, but probably staying a little too relaxed, he did not notice how the other big players play: Napoli, Milan, Inter, Atalanta . They are modern teams, which win by imposing their game with schemes that enhance the offensive maneuver.
In Rome it’s a derby show
The Capitoline derby won by Lazio 3-2 was a fantastic show. Sarri’s team prevailed, which held the match more in hand, but even Mourinho’s Giallorossi did not disfigure. Modern football is this thing here. Especially if you want to establish yourself internationally. Mancini’s national team proved it by dominating the European Championship: if you have a game, and a project, go ahead. Otherwise you stop, because you are neither meat nor fish. In a football that must recover the public and money, entertain and attract young people is almost a must. At San Siro in Inter-Atalanta (2-2) there was also a good dose of madness: crossbars, double Var poles, the penalty that Dimarco failed at the last minute, many mistakes, many regrets. They could both win: but what emotions! The same Milan of Pioli, which reaped the fruits of the green line (the latest is Daniel of the award-winning Maldini dynasty), is a model launched into the future. Every now and then the Rossoneri boys fall into some naivety, but behind them there is a project, a “vision” of football. If you have to invest some money. you do it with teams like that. This can also be seen with Fiorentina, who have returned to win over Udinese (0-1). Even Genoa, in front of the new American ownership, managed to equalize (3-3) with Verona when all seemed lost. And Empoli beating Bologna 4-2? The Tuscans in the standings are on nine points, one more than Juventus … As in the puzzle week: where is the mistake
Alaphilippe makes an encore in Cassani’s last world championship
Et voilà le Champion! Not to mention always football, let’s go to the cycling world championships where this Sunday, outclassing his little beloved Belgian cousins, the Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe confirmed himself for the second consecutive time world champion in the road test on the Leuven circuit (268 km, 42 walls). In the heart of Flanders, in front of an audience full of beer) who would have gladly grilled him, Alippe won as a champion by giving a powerful acceleration on the Wall of St. Anthony on the penultimate passage, about 17 kilometers from the finish. A sharp attack, the fourth in the series, which cut the legs of the great favorites, namely the Dutch Van Der Poel and above all the pupil of the house, the Belgian Wout Van Aert, the same who on the eve of the world championship had announced urbi et orbi : «I’m tired of second places, for me there is only the title». And in fact he was immediately satisfied. Not even a folding seat for him on the podium. The silver medal went to Holland (Van Baarle) and the bronze medal to Denmark with Valgren.