From the first to the sixth, there is only a gap of six points, and there are still four games in the league. Theoretically, any of these six teams can win the championship, which is why Gazzetta dello Sport describes the current situation of Serie A with "the craziest league championship battle ever". You know, as long as that team makes a little mistake now, its league ranking may be surpassed by the teams behind it overnight.
This chaotic situation has excited the major Italian media, and several major cities that may win the championship, such as Milan. The fans in Naples, Turin and Rome also went crazy. Especially the fans of Naples, who have always been famous for their fanaticism, have taken concrete actions in addition to their unreserved support in spirit in the face of the excellent situation that the team may regain the Serie A championship after 20 years.
Under the call and organization of the Neapolitan die-hard fan organization "Neapolitan Watchers", nearly 20,000 Neapolitan fans will accompany the team to Verona, the city where Neapolitan’s next rival Chievo is located.
Twenty thousand Naples fans went out with the team. What is this place? It is located in a small town in Verona. What is the resident population of this town? Only 2). People. They even need to share a home with the second-division team Verona. And their home stadium, Marco Antonio Bentgedi Stadium, can only accommodate 30,000 fans. Campedelli, president of Chievo Club, owns a company called Pa Ruani, which mainly produces cakes, nut chocolates and Christmas candy. The annual turnover of PaRuani Company is only 3,000-4,000 yuan, and Campedelli’s total expenditure for the club every season is about 10 million dollars, which is: J’s annual advertising income of Kaka, Ibrahimovic and Totti. So Chievo is a small team in Serie A. Compared with the top teams in Serie A, Chievo can’t afford to buy big-name stars, but most of the players in the team play together for a long time and cooperate with each other tacitly. The excellent record of the team comes from the solid defense line first. Chievo players with no fame and high income are very United, unlike big-name stars who often don’t buy each other. Chievo team appeared in Apennine this season with outstanding team spirit and high fighting spirit, although the ranking is not ideal at present. It is only three-thirds away from the relegation zone, but Chievo’s record at home is not bad. Chievo can often play very well at their home stadium, Marco Antonio Bentgedi.Although Napoli slaughtered Chievo 6-0 at home in the first leg of the match between the two sides this season, when it comes to the away game, Napoli really can’t guarantee to win easily.
After beating AC Milan 32 at home, Naples ushered in a six-game winning streak in the league. They stubbornly approached the gap of points to only one point when they were ten points behind the leaders. This makes them the most popular team in Serie A now. In terms of the latest winning odds offered by gaming companies, they are even almost the same as Inter Milan. The Italian media also believe that Naples now has the capital to compete with Milan, especially after Naples beat AC Milan with a neat lineup without dispute, such voices have appeared more and more in every corner of Italy.
Compared with Milan duo, Naples even has an advantage over them in the hope of winning the championship. There are still four games in the league, and Napoli’s opponents are only Chievo and Siena. Turin, and finally Inter Milan. Besides a tough battle with Naples, Inter Milan. Their penultimate opponent is Florence, who is equally strong away from home. In order to qualify for the Champions League next season, Prandelli’s team will surely not let Inter Milan take a victory away from Florence easily. And AC Milan’s opponents in the last four games are slightly weaker. However, it is not a tough character, such as Udinese, who is known as the nemesis of Milan.
In addition to these favorable factors for Naples, there is another one that makes Naples people happy.
Geographical factors, that is, the Milan duo and the drag of the Champions League mission. Benxiong both reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, Inter Milan played Manchester United in the semi-final and AC Milan played Chelsea in the semi-final. Compared with the league champion, the Champions League champion is obviously no less tempting than the league champion. Mourinho’s team and Ancelotti’s team will certainly be distracted by the Champions League, and Naples needs to care about only the league now. Oh, there is also an Italian Cup, but the final of the Italian Cup will not be played until the end of the league, so it has no influence on Naples’ league plans.
Under the attention of countless Italian fans and fans all over the world who are concerned about Serie A, on Saturday, May 10th, local time in Italy, a new round of competition for Serie A began, and several popular teams made their appearances respectively. In the previous games, Inter Milan made their debut first, and they relied on Ibrahimovic’s goal twice to capture Atlanta at home. In the next match of AC Milan, Ancelotti’s team won easily 3-0 away by relying on the excellent performances of Kaka, Ronaldinho and Pato.
As a result, the pressure has returned to Naples and Juventus, which also have the hope of winning the championship. On Sunday, the second match day of this round of league matches, Juventus beat Cagliari 2-0 at home, and followed in the footsteps of Milan. The Rome team capsized in the gutter and lost to Bologna, which was not strong. Florence was a little better than Rome, and they got a draw away from home. However, this draw means that Viola has basically withdrawn from this season’s championship battle, and the capsized Rome can also be said to have basically missed this season’s Serie A championship.
At six o’clock in the evening, Italy time, Napoli, the last player to play, attracted the attention of Serie A fans all over the world, but the result of this game was beyond the expectation of most people. Napoli, who went out with a six-game winning streak, was unexpectedly drawn by Chievo, the flying donkey! ! ! ! !
When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, 10,000 Naples fans at the scene and countless Naples fans who were not at the scene could not believe their eyes. Their eyes are almost as empty as 00 on the scoreboard of Mark Antonio Bentgedi Stadium.
In this game, the 10,000 Napoli fans in the stadium almost suppressed Chievo fans, not to mention the 10,000 Napoli fans who failed to come in outside the stadium and spared no effort to cheer for the team.
In this game, Napoli dominated the game, with the possession rate of 65% to 35% and the shot of 18% to 8. Even four times, it hit the doorframe, and the others were all blocked by Chigiano, the goalkeeper of Chievo. After the siege of Chievo for 90 minutes, Naples had to swallow the bitter fruit of being tied by the flying donkey. The 0-0 draw not only broke Naples’ record of scoring goals in 15 consecutive games, but also terminated its seven-game winning streak. More importantly, Naples’ league ranking fell from second to fourth overnight, and AC Milan and Juventus, who both won this round, once again overtook Naples. In addition to these, the most terrible thing is that the gap between Napoli and Inter Milan has been widened to four points again. If you want to win the championship, you can only hope that Inter Milan will make another mistake and then Naples will win in the final round of direct confrontation with Inter Milan, so that Naples can win this year’s Serie A championship, and only if Juventus and AC Milan make mistakes at the same time.
After Naples was tied this round, the major media reacted differently to Naples. Gazzetta dello Sport somewhat gloated, while the media in Naples and China were pessimistic. Other neutral media believe that Naples still lacks enough experience and historical background to win the championship.
However, what Naples expects is that Milan duo will face their Champions League life-and-death battle, and Juventus have lost their spiritual leader Piero in this round of competition. As long as Naples can make no mistakes in the remaining three games, their hope of winning the championship is not completely lost. Compared with Milan and Juventus, the personnel situation in Naples is absolutely the most neat.
Just, Milan duo, will Juventus give Naples such an opportunity? ? ?
Volume III
Chapter 220-Thanks to Ferguson and Scolari
While most of the media thought that young Naples would not be able to withstand the pressure from Shanghai Ping and this round continued to sink, in the 36th round of Serie A a a week later, the Napoli team returned home with a 30-point victory to fight back all doubts.
Napoli’s opponent in this game is Turin, which is the same city as Juventus and is known as the "Red Bull". Originally, Juventus hoped that the bitter rivals in the same city could help stop Naples for the sake of all Turin teams, but in Sao Paulo Stadium, Turin team finished the game with a score of 3-0, not to mention stopping Naples. The whole performance of the team was simply to help Naples warm up, or to help Naples find the state before the life and death. In the first half, they were 2-0 behind, and Hamsik and Lavezzi scored one goal each in the 20th minute and the 35th minute. At the beginning of the second half, Zinan scored a free kick in the 50 th minute to seal the victory for Naples.
Rhea also replaced Zinan in the 70th minute of the game, so that Zinan could save enough energy and avoid unnecessary injuries to cope with the away game against Siena next week.
At the same time, other matches with Naples also ended in a later period. In order to prevent the occurrence of match-fixing or "silent ball", the Italian Football Association decided to let the last three leagues kick off at the same time. Therefore, when the results of this match between Napoli and Turin came out, the results of other matches came in almost at the same time. Coach’s seat. The members of the coaching staff pay attention to their own team’s games while keeping in touch with other games by telephone, especially the progress of the Milan duo and Juventus. This situation also appeared in the stands of Naples fans in Sao Paulo Stadium. They also used their mobile phones to ask their friends or family about the results of other games.
When Napoli had a three-goal lead, which made the game lose suspense, with the replacement of Qinan, the local Naples fans invariably devoted their attention to other games.
As a result, a strange scene appeared in Sao Paulo Stadium. Countless Naples fans are holding their mobile phones, covering half their ears and yelling at the phone.
"Louder, louder, what’s the score between Inter Milan and Genoa now?"
"What, Inter Milan leads 1-0?"
"What about AC Milan and Juventus?"
"Really? AC Milan is one goal behind. Are Juventus and Palermo still 0-0? "
For a while. The stands are full of such voices. Whenever there is the latest change in the situation of other games, it can always be known by Naples fans who are still watching the ball in Sao Paulo at the first time, and the fans who get the first-hand information will immediately tell their associates about the latest game and then spread it to every corner of Sao Paulo stadium quickly. And whenever news comes from other cities that may have a good or bad impact on the current situation in Naples, Naples fans will sigh with excitement or anxiety. This situation makes both Napoli players in unknown so and Torino players feel a little puzzled.
For example, when Torino players were preparing to attack with the ball, there was a sudden burst of inexplicable cheers in the stands. Torino players were wondering that the ball had been broken by Napoli players. In fact, Naples fans cheered just now because they heard that AC Milan had been scored by their opponents. Just a few minutes later, it was Naples’ turn to attack. Lavezzi was scoring in the penalty area with a beautiful ball, but there was a neat lament from Naples fans in the stands. Lavezzi was stunned by the lament. The Turin goalkeeper has made a decisive attack and saved the ball under his feet. In fact, Naples fans only lamented because they heard the news that Inter Milan was leading by one goal.
As the game drew to a close, the players on both sides of the field gradually understood what had happened. In addition, there is no hope for Turin to see the equaliser, and they don’t rely on this game to score points. Moreover, the Napoli players on the field have no intention to continue to entangle with the Turin team, and the last 20 minutes of the game has simply become a time for players on the field to entertain themselves.
Since Qinan was replaced and sat on the player’s bench, he has been seeing several members of the team’s coaching staff constantly holding mobile phones and communicating with the opposite side. From time to time, some people have heard something in Rhea’s ear.
Don’t ask Qinan, these coaching staff members must be doing the same thing as those Napoli fans. In fact, he also wants to know. It must be a lie to say that he doesn’t care whether the team can win the championship. In fact, he cares about this champion as much as other members of the club.
When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the team won
After the crucial victory, they didn’t leave the Sao Paulo Stadium immediately, but they stayed at the Sao Paulo Stadium together and waited for the end of several other games that were important to Naples.
Although this round of league matches were held at the same time, it ended first and a few minutes later because of different specific circumstances. For example, there was no injury time in this game in Naples, and the process went smoothly, so the stoppage time was very short. The stoppage time in the first half and the second half only added up to four minutes, and even the referee stopped the game after more than a minute in the stoppage time in the second half, because there was really no need to continue playing. Milan duo and Juventus have more stoppage time than Naples. So when the match between Naples and Turin ended, other matches were in full swing.
At the end of the game, the players in Naples immediately pulled their teammates or members of the coaching staff to ask questions. They are no less anxious than Napoli fans. When they were on the court, they were already worried by the Napoli fans who were shocked at first sight.