After Napoli – Juventus (5-1) – Massimiliano Allegri: “It almost makes me want to smile…”

The shock turned to the lesson. The duel in humiliation. Without pity for their best enemy, the Napoli, leaders of the championship, defeated Juventus (5-1) this Friday night at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. A festival of football, games, and goals that his legend would certainly have appreciated. Impressive, the band of Luciano Spalletti, who now has a ten-point lead over his opponent of the day, sent a clear message to the entire championship: the scudetto is in his hands, nice and warm. And if AC Milan, also relegated to ten lengths, does not win in Lecce on Saturday (6 p.m.), the mass would not really be far from over, even for the most superstitious Neapolitan tifosi.

Completely knocked out of her evening fight, a little as if she had faced Mike Tyson without having the right to put her guard up, the Old Lady has probably given up in the title race. “But the season is still long“, warned Massimiliano Allegri after the meeting, however lucid about the difference in level between the two teams.

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“We came to this game with less energyhe admitted. Congratulations to Napoli, who fully deserve their victory. It’s a more than deserved loss. Napoli prove that they are currently the strongest team. We must now get up and move forward, above all not to get demoralized to resume our path, continue to grow. Let’s not forget we’re coming off an eight game winning streak. It is better to lose once 5-1 than five times 1-0.”

These are evenings that arrive in a season

It is true, the successes have been there in recent months. But so are the alarm signals. During his series, Juve often pitched, wavered, sometimes with luck, but never cracked. This Friday evening, the ship took on water everywhere, before sinking definitively. “These are evenings that arrive in a seasonrelativized Allegri. There’s nothing to do, when it doesn’t turn out for you… It almost makes me want to smile, so nothing has gone in our favor. We made mistakes, it’s true, but nothing wanted to smile on us. We paid for everything in cash. There is always a game in the year where the opponent scores every time he strikes.”

For the Tuscan technician, already not really popular on the side of the tifosi despite his series of victories, his team must not “don’t get depressed“despite a”disappointment” who go “last a few days“. “There’s no justification when you take 5-1he added. But we wouldn’t have taken those five goals with more energy. After the third goal, it’s like the world has fallen on us“So, goodbye scudetto dreams?”Napoli are on the rise, but what is valid in football today is not valid tomorrow. They’re on a roll, but maybe that’ll change in two months“, he concluded.

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