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Gennaro Gattuso It hasn’t been the same for a few weeks. Admit the same Napoli coach who confessed live on television at the end of the tie in distress against Torino that the eye disease (ocular myasthenia that he has suffered for years) has conditioned him in his daily life and, consequently, also in his work. The result has been a notable decrease in the results of the team that in the last three outings has only accumulated one point, against Turin, losing the two previous games and moving away from the first. As Gattuso himself hinted after Napoli-Turin: “I think the boys suffered from this too“.
All this, paradoxically, at the same moment in which Naples should and could have drawn new strength and conviction from the ruling on ‘case’ Juventus-Napoli where sports justice has decided that the game, never played, must be played. Eliminating the 3-0 defeat that punished the Neapolitans as well as eliminating the -1 in the standings. Right in the days of the blue ‘redemption’ came the stop in the field.
Gattuso was seen with a striking eye patch already in the game against Naples and it was immediately understood that the disease had returned. Since he was a footballer, in the last moments of his career the Napoli coach himself suffered, as he has repeatedly said. Visual difficulty, general malaise, difficulty concentrating. And so it happened that all this has been poured into the performance of the team. Defeat against Bury, lost game against Lazio, Draw in the 90 ‘against Turin.
The set highlighted two aspects. The first is that obviously the charisma and the personality of ‘Snarl’ however and always there damned that this group needs. Especially in a post-Covid context where there is no public support that can lead players to victory. Even if there are huge doubts about Gattuso’s progress in managing Napoli, his presence is undoubtedly the ‘crux’ that still manages to make a difference.
President De Laurentiis, on the sidelines of the hearing in Coni on the appeal against Juve-Napoli, had described Gattuso’s difficulties as no one had done before.
“Gattuso has an eye problem so he has to take cortisone all the time. Since he hadn’t taken it for 15 days, he even saw twice as much. We watched the Juve game together the other day and he couldn’t see the actions well. Under those conditions I don’t think I have any responsibility. Gattuso is a great footballer, a great expert and has supposed attributes. “
Gattuso’s strong point is also the most great weakness of this projectBecause without their determination the team leaves, which is unacceptable given the strong personalities and level players that the squad includes, from Mertens to Insigne to Koulibaly. The Christmas break comes at the right moment, letting Gattuso rest and resume and allow Napoli to be ready for a second part of the season as the protagonist.
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