It’s chaos again in Naples: Francesco Calzona ends up in the dock. The Italian coach accused for a specific reason.
After the fool of Empoli culminating in a resounding defeat, the Naples he was called to react and give an important response to both the fans and the club. The Azzurri are having a disastrous season compared to the one that led to an extraordinary Scudetto a year ago and find themselves in full battle for a European place.
In the last championship match against Romethe team of Francesco Calzona had one of the best performances of the entire championship, but failed to get the three points. Napoli put the Giallorossi under control from the very first minutes, but paid for the many errors in front of goal and the usual defensive amnesia.
27 shots to 10 were not enough to go beyond the draw. Despite the progress of the match, Roma took the lead following a penalty Dybalabut a few minutes later the score was 1-1 Olivera. The Neapolitans, also driven by Maradona’s enthusiasm, accelerated and recovered with a penalty Osimhen.
In the end, however, came the joke. Abraham, who came on in the second half, headed the goal to make it 2-2. An icy shower for Napoli and yet another demonstration that this season is now marked and in some ways cursed.
Calzona criticized for the Ostigard-Traorè switch
Among others, the technician also ended up in the dock Francesco Calzona, for a substitution made before the corner kick from which the goal came from Roma’s English center forward. The blue coach, to have more centimeters on inactive balls, decided to insert Ostigard For Traore.
A change that proved to be wrong from the moment his team immediately conceded Abraham’s equaliser. Many have expressed their opinion on this choice by Calzona, including the former Napoli defender Fabiano Santacroce.
Santacroce Calzona wand
To the microphones of Ottochannel he has declared: “Calzone he made a pretty obvious mistake when he entered Ostigard at that moment of the match. In my opinion he created some imbalances in that game situation. I wouldn’t have included him, or it would have made sense to send Ostigard onto the field but with the specific task of marking an opponent.
Let’s hope Abraham. But in that way his inclusion perhaps disoriented the defense. Unfortunately the flaw of Naples this year is the marking. Napoli’s zonal marking system doesn’t work, they conceded too many goals.”
