Napoli falls, clearly defeated 4-2 by Barcelona at Maradona. Soon the commentary at the press conference by Luciano Spalletti
Could there be any psychological implications after this defeat?
“Net of a few episodes, we have to be honest and say that they are stronger than us. Surely there have been complications for us that aggravate this difference that exists and that has been there. I’m less good than us. Xavi, I congratulate him and I am realistic. I am not going to be worsened by what was his victory against me, I manage it correctly recognizing that I am inferior. I also give him a gift and then I go to take back what he is the level that I have to play against other teams, in the situation that I still play a lot as far as I’m concerned. “
Did he expect a different ability to react from his parents?
“Tonight everything went wrong from the point of view of the episodes. They were very good at pointing out our mistakes, when we returned to the game at 2-1 when we had recreated the right distances, then we immediately took the 3-1 before return to the locker room. That has put everything in their favor and from our point of view it has put us in great difficulty. low construction holding the ball too much. We did not manage to realize that we could manage some exits differently. We are sorry, because this evening the atmosphere in Naples was created. We had a lot to bring everyone back to the stadium and we are doubly sorry not having been able to manage the match”.
What happened on the first goal?
“We wanted to make a short exchange, but there was a misunderstanding and we played it badly. They made this nice restart, you could have put things right by making a tactical foul but we didn’t succeed. With the speed they have. in the open field they are difficult to catch. These things happen, you have to manage them and move on. Sometimes by moving the ball on the corner kick we scored a goal, this time we caught it. It is I who asked to beat the football corner like this “.
On the whistles at Insigne
“I have heard few, some have been there. Tonight the boy showed that he cared, even on the penalty spot he was courageous. I read the boos more as a reaction of disappointment on the part of the fans.”
Did the team have a drop in aggression?
“There are some races that do not meet your characteristics, there you should have a different attitude but you don’t always succeed. It can depend on many factors, in Cagliari their hunger for salvation was seen more. Tonight we did what we did. we had to do it from the point of view of trying to play the game, then there were these episodes that came up on us every time we got back into balance in the flow of the game. We did a lot more wrong than them when we had the ball, they were better than us to make it run “.
Naples out of the Cups in February. What signal is it?
“It is a sign that we have lost some matches, but I do not see it as a definitive sign. We will draw the sums at the end of the season by evaluating everything a little, now we have to take note of what happens by making the analyzes correctly without getting involved emotionally, because we still play a lot “.
00.10 Luciano Spalletti’s press conference ends.
