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Absolute dominance of the bianconeri, who closed with 100% possession of the ball. Pirlo: “We won’t let Napoli play.” Gattuso: “…”
When Ronaldo shoots 3-0 there is not a Napoli player who has the strength to collect the ball from Meret’s goal. The Portuguese is under the empty curve to dedicate the goal that marks the destiny of the inanimate stands a game without history, and nobody wastes a reaction, a wave of pride, nothing.
Naples absent, not tried. Impalpable Naples. With Pirlo’s team, absolute master, in constant and total control, from the warm-up to the final whistle. Game literally impossible to watch. Only one team on the field.
Gattuso, although penalized for absences, completely misses the tactical reading of the game: the black and white midfield overflows, the opposing blues never see it. As if they were playing 800 kilometers away. A 90 ‘bull with no one in the middle. Indefensible defense, impregnable attack. The end of a weekend with the dead, with Naples as the protagonistto.
When at 7 minutes Pirlo’s theories translate into a Ramsey assist for Ronaldo, the Portuguese finds no obstacles, dodges the outgoing goalkeeper and then takes aim at the sloppy goal. Napoli is reduced to a ghost, as if he had never reached Turin.
Juve’s dribbling meets no resistance, fills all the spaces. An athletic triumph, even: only they run, they arrive first on every ball, they win every tackling and sometimes out of boredom they fight each other winning, just to add some substance to the fight. Without accusing any reaction.
Napoli is simply not there. And it emerges from the eerie silence of the bank, with Gattuso crouched who knows where. Not a scream, not a jerk, not a blasphemy. In the stadium behind closed doors only the whistle of the wind is heard, with the Italian champions haggling sheaves of straw.
At 2-0, the result of a detachment from Morata, left free of guilt by Manolas and Koulibaly, it was over. The legal number of goals is missing. But Napoli never shoot on goal, they never take a corner, they never win a free kick. Gattuso at one point reveals all his shame by choosing not to make substitutions. The shadow of himself.
Juve could have been extended, indeed, if they had not finished shortly after the break by confusing a penalty called at the limits of the regulation by Doveri with a fall in the area of Dybala. The Argentine himself curiously admits that he has not been impressed by a soul. But at 4 minutes the Var tracks the presence of life in the vicinity of Dybala in slow motion and declares: foul, penalty. Duty waves a red card in the wind. Without protests. Expulsion. Naples reduced to… -1. Before kicking, Ronaldo takes one last look at Meret, can’t find him, and shoots very high. Follow 2-0.
The result is too tight for the Bianconeri, who double, if not triple, their opponents. And in fact, it is Ronaldo himself who takes the edge of the offside (the linesman is very good at capturing the presence of Di Lorenzo who keeps the attacker in play), seeding both the rivals and making them untraceable on the horizon, to finally close his career in the blue door, with all the ball. The symbol of defeat, the sign of humiliation. The screams of his companions amplify the silence of Gattuso’s men, missing mentally and physically.
There is a fact that says this coincidence better than all the others: Juve closes with 100% possession of the ball. A record that was only registered for the first time in the summer friendlies in Villar Perosa, those of Juve A-JuveB. As if he had won in absentia, almost at the table. An ugly sports page, written in fun ink.
Pirlo’s burning comment is indicative:
“I just have to congratulate my boys. It was not easy to play this game, many would not have done it in our place.. Instead, we stayed focused and managed to keep Napoli from playing. The important thing was to take the three points home. However, I congratulate Gattuso: he certainly has a positive team. I hope he leaves soon ”.
Response from Laconic Gattuso:
“……………………………………………………”
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