The Napoli fails in the enterprise of "avenging" the Italian football coming out resized by the Champions 1 ^

Napoli's Champions League group begins with a defeat, which a bit surprisingly in Ukraine, in front of about 33.000 spectators including 150 heroic Neapolitan supporters, must surrender to a Shakhtar Donetsk who closes the first district with a score of 2-1.
Yet Napoli had started well on Shakhtar's field, immediately registering an excellent and promising exchange between Insigne and Callejon, with the latter not arriving for a very short time on the inviting ball of his partner. Reply shortly after Milik who tries the way of the goal, but the excellent Pyatov controls well. It is an open game, without exasperated tactics and it seems the ideal condition for the beautiful offensive game to which Napoli have accustomed us. Instead, after the encouraging start, Sarri's men seem to lose brilliance and lower their pace of play undergoing the initiatives of the hosts and immediately turning on the classic alarm bell. Needless to say, Shakhtar passes on the 15th. Nice action on the right by Srna who puts a precious ball in the center, Ferreyra's heel shot for Taison who bags behind Reina.
Napoli feel the pinch and seem to lose clarity. Hamsik combines it big when failing a back pass to Koulibaly, puts Taison in front of Reina who fortunately with a providential deviation avoids the blow of the ko. The Slovakian does not appear in the day and continues to make mistakes in balls and proven movements, the blue strikers do not find spaces and therefore Ordets takes care of it with a deviation that for very little does not turn into an own goal to make his goalkeeper Pyatov run the greatest risk that little afterwards he must still make a nice save on one of Insigne's classic return shots. The second half begins but the script seems the same, with a Napoli that shows evident difficulties in developing its normal attacking game. On the contrary, he almost immediately grants a wonderful opportunity to the Argentine Ferreyra who almost takes advantage of yet another mistake by the Italian players (in this case Albiol). But the appointment with the goal for Ferreyra is only postponed because on the 12th, taking advantage of a sleep of the Neapolitan defense and the imprecise exit of Reina, he heads Rakistkiy's nice cross, and signs the 2-0. At this point Sarri can no longer wait and is forced to throw into the fray the player who at the moment undoubtedly represents the added value for in Naples, the essential Martens. We are at 60th, still missing half an hour to catch up with a game that objectively went badly. The off Hamsik comes out to make way for the Belgian champion and the results seem to be seen immediately. In fact, in a few minutes both the new entry and Milik, while failing to violate the Ukrainian door, become very dangerous. It is always thanks to the Belgian who, earning a clear penalty kick later converted by Milik, that the game reopens. The 2-1 encourages Napoli who throws themselves forward in a desperate search for a draw but Shakhtar is still very close to scoring when Ferreyra, always with his head, hits the post. On the reversal in front of Milik misses a sensational goal after a splendid assist from Insigne. Callejon also tries shortly after, but Pyatov is not surprised. It ends here with great regret of Napoli for having lost against its main competitor in the next round. Those who really love this team will certainly regret it a lot, namely its wonderful fans. A little, but just a little, will also be the regret of the Governor of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca, who in the hours preceding the match, had tried to win the sympathies of the sanguine Neapolitan people and more generally Campania, teasing Juventus for the defeat suffered in Barcelona and hoping for a sort of "revenge" of Italian football by Napoli. The superstitious Neapolitan people will now feel rightly authorized to make the debts in case of new "political spots", decidedly out of place, by the governor De Luca.
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The Napoli fails in the enterprise of "avenging" the Italian football coming out resized by the Champions 1 ^

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