The defeat suffered this afternoon at the Dall’Ara, with a 2-0 loss against Bologna, has generated considerable dismay in the Napoli camp. The disappointment was clearly visible both in the look and in the words spoken by Antonio Conte at the end of the match to the microphones of Dazn.
The coach from Lecce in fact said he was worried not only about the result, but above all about the performance dictated by certain attitudes that he still cannot correct within the locker room and that are creating a negative atmosphere around the team. A defeat that, in addition to putting Napoli’s top spot back into question, has also raised new questions about the team’s title ambitions.
These were Conte’s words regarding the race for the championship: “I am worried because a team that is indicated as the absolute protagonist and loses five matches means that something is not going in the right direction. We must not forget in Naples that after winning a title we finished tenth, and in my opinion this was not a great lesson in general, because many times people think that from one day to the next the ugly duckling becomes a swan. Last year we did something of absolute value, extraordinary, which has nothing to do with this. This year we are continuing to work, but we must ask ourselves if we are doing it with the right enthusiasm, with that desire for revenge. Or are we basking in the fact that we won, that maybe we are considered favorites, many new players have arrived and maybe we are thinking something different. We certainly do not have that positive energy that we had last year, the boys know very well what I think. I am sorry that I have not been able to change this energy in these four months, because it means I am not doing a good job or that someone does not want to listen.”
