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The Nigerian comes in and upsets the game. Before, it had been a boring hour. Goals from Mertens and Insigne. Now Gattuso will have to square the circle
Napoli won 2-0 in Parma, with goals from Mertens and Insigne. But Naples is not old at all. Rather. Everything changed when Gattuso entered Osimhen and converted to 4-4-2.
The solution came at game time. After sixty minutes of nothing, Gattuso decided it was time for a change. Outside Demme (who stood out especially for the yellow card in the first half) and inside Osimhen who was left too cautiously on the bench. Players don’t need adaptation times and you certainly don’t get on the bench. Goodbye to 4-1-4-1 and wide to 4-4-2 Ancelotian with Zielinski and Fabián in the center and Insigne and Lozano outside. In front, the Osimhen-Mertens couple.
A few seconds and Napoli went ahead. Lozano center, Osimhen put pressure on the defender, the ball went to Mertens – who is very close to the Nigerian – and scored with his right foot.
Napoli’s game should only be counted from the sixtieth. Also because there is really nothing to say about the first hour of the game. A little trot with no shots on goal. Ball possession useful for statistics only. It was a very disturbing first hour.
Fortunately, Napoli have one of the longest squads in the league, if not the longest. Gattuso has decided to focus on the depth of his group. He converted to 4-4-2, it is a 4-4-2 because the schemes are those that are deployed in the defensive phase, as everyone knows. And without the ball, Mertens and Osimhen are side by side. With the ball, they form a vertical axis.
Napoli suddenly appeared another team. It is as if he was woken up by the prince’s kiss. And the prince was Osimhen. He entered into all the dangerous actions of Napoli. His heel shot released Insigne who hit the post from the outside. Even his missed header in the area was dangerous, the ball ended up in Lozano who almost slipped.
The star of the day was undoubtedly Osimhen. With all due respect to Dries who scored the goal, but it was the Nigerian who transformed the performance from black and white to color. Fast, powerful, hungry: she is a forward that needed not only Napoli but also Serie A. Insigne’s second goal was born from a loose ball from Parma and thanks to Lozano who center from the right Insigne rushed to reject the Sepe’s rejection.
Now Gattuso will have to take care of the field. And the field said they have to play 4-4-2. A 4-4-2 in this case very offensive. Before we had seen a team unable to accelerate, with a pace slightly higher than a friendly, very slow ball spin. If for this form they think that they lack a midfielder, Napoli must intervene. But at this point it’s really difficult to go back to 4-1-4-1.
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