Serie A, Napoli-Lazio: Sarri, Reina Hysaj, how many stories in the match

There is the cover man. But there are others too. Napoli-Lazio tonight will have a special flavor for the Neapolitan fans. Partly because Spalletti’s team, after two defeats in a row (one with Inter in the league and one with Spartak in the cup) must get up again, partly because they are playing one year after the death of Maradona (who died on 25 November 2020, which is why the statue dedicated to him will be inaugurated in the pre-match), partly because there will be, as opponents, several ex. Maurizio Sarri is the name that attracts the most attention to himself, but there are also Reina and Hysaj. And both of them will play starters.

The situation

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Sarri in Naples was experienced as a revolutionary: people were with him, they loved him, they esteemed him. Maybe even idolized. Along with the commander, however, there were also his two loyalists. Reina had already played in Naples in 2013-14 (winning the Coppa Italia as a protagonist), but returned in 2015, right together with Sarri. There they worked together for three seasons. Reina, with Sarri, played 139 games in blue, leaving the club together with his captain (the goalkeeper went to Milan). For Hysaj the story is slightly different: he arrived in Campania by the clear will of Sarri (who had already coached him at Empoli), he wore the Azzurri shirt for 6 years, totaling 222 appearances (and scoring a goal).

In fact, in Naples the Albanian winger was immovable with Sarri (43 appearances in the first year, then 45 and then 47), then finding less space in the following seasons (35.24 and 28 tokens). For him it will be the first as an ex, just in the week in which he was fined for 40 thousand euros by the college composed of Luca Fabrizio, Bruno Piacci (the referee chosen by Naples) and Francesco Macrì (chosen by Hysaj and Mario Giuffredi’s Marat) . This is because it has been established that Hysaj participated (but was not among the promoters or instigators) in the mutiny of 2019. He too, like Reina, won an Italian Cup with Napoli (he was the one in 2020), beating Juventus in the final. coached by Sarri. The technician therefore remains the man on the cover tonight. But the match against Napoli, as an ex, will be intense and exciting also for Reina and Hysaj.