Napoli secured a last-gasp win over Liverpool last night, and the Italian media largely believes it was a deserved three points.
The Gazzetta dello Sport notes that the English side “were at the mercy of the Azzurri midfield” and “the ending was almost logical, because for Napoli a draw would have been too little”.
Napoli secured a last-gasp win over Liverpool last night, and the Italian media largely believes it was a deserved three points.
The Gazzetta dello Sport notes that the English side “were at the mercy of the Azzurri midfield” and “the ending was almost logical, because for Napoli a draw would have been too little”.
Corriere della Sera called it “a coup that changes a season”, noting that “Liverpool were contained without problems, the potential three-against-three at the back defused by the teamwork that snuffed out any counter-attacks and frustrated the work of Firmino, the tactical axis around which the Reds rotate”.
“And in the end Insigne arrived,” Tuttosport wrote. “With a Koulibaly who had Salah in his pocket, an Allan who dominated the midfield and cancelled Mané out of the game in his spare time, a Mertens who came on and put another mark on the Champions League woodwork, the street urchin from Frattamaggiore put the final signature on a game dominated by Ancelotti’s men”.
Neapolitan newspaper Il Mattino called it “a historic feat” and a “precious and well-deserved victory”.
The same paper insists “Liverpool were never dangerous, Ospina performed a decisive intervention on Salah in the final minute and for the rest of the time he was never busy”.
In an opinion piece for the Corriere dello Sport, Ivan Zazzaroni writes “for a lifetime I haven’t seen a Napoli with this personality, with equal attentiveness: Allan and Koulibaly were monumental, Callejòn never failed, Albiol and Maksimovic (again on the right) looked like twins”.
La Stampa states that Napoli were “almost perfect”, while “Liverpool were powerless, they witnessed the performance of the Italian team without putting up any real resistance”.