Nando Orsi, former goalkeeper and commentator, spoke to La Domenica Azzurra on OttoChannel: “Conte’s choice would have pros and cons. The coach is someone who works very well if he has to rebuild from the rubble and also effective if he can work on one match a week, therefore without cups. The cons are related to his desire for autonomy: he is too expensive a coach and then I ask myself: would it be right to give the coach the entire technical management of the club?
Gasperini would be a good choice, he can work on the young players but needs time, Conte instead would ask for those few reinforcements to try to immediately revive Napoli at the top. In any case I hope that De Laurentiis has already decided, because timing is very important this time. And maybe he has already chosen a foreign coach. Speaking of coaches, on balance Napoli were wrong to send Garcia away. If Napoli had let the French coach work calmly he would probably now have a few more points. Garcia understood that something needed to change, then it is clear that he was in a bad situation, he was wrong to say those things and made questionable choices: the changes in the home match against Empoli were almost aimed at getting himself kicked out. However, by sacking Garcia, Napoli then hired Mazzarri, perhaps no longer used to managing this type of situation, and Calzona who has little experience as a first coach.
Certainly if Napoli had played several matches like this against Roma they would have 8-10 points more in the standings. The draw with Roma is the manifesto of the season. Errors in attack, errors in defense, that goal conceded in that way at the end of the match. This time Napoli deserved to win, they had many opportunities, they played better. Roma appeared resigned but, in my opinion, thanks to Napoli’s merits given that the Giallorossi are among the best in form in the championship.
There was a response from the team from the point of view of pride, the team reacted to the withdrawal, to even heavy criticism from Calzona. Certainly inserting Ostigard before a corner was counterproductive, also because the Norwegian didn’t really know what to do, he took the place of Traorè who had no defensive duties and therefore also disoriented the rearguard.
For the future I would take two central defenders, one or two midfielders and a striker. I say this because it would be wrong to re-found and reset, in my opinion several players need to be recovered unless they are saturated with motivation in Napoli. Napoli remains strong, they have many high-level elements that need to be recovered. There is quality and it should not be squandered.”
