To say that Verona played a great match after a defeat seems absurd. But it’s really the truth. Verona played a great match in Naples, they did the best they could and made life very difficult for a team that costs at least twenty times as much and which has already won the Scudetto in the last transfer market. Conte’s Napoli is very strong, very solid, and concedes few goals. An impossible opponent if we add that the Neapolitans’ commitment was maximum, after seeing Inter win in the afternoon against Venezia.
Verona tried to make life hard for the Neapolitans. Paolo Zanetti’s team now has clear ideas and we are also starting to see the work done in training. The defense no longer dances and whoever wants to score now must do so with their own abilities and not with our gifts. Exactly what Napoli did, helped by their champions and also by luck (see the ball hitting the post and then ending up on Montipò’s back). Not only that: the yellow-blues now play the ball on the ground, the offensive patterns are pleasant, they get to the goal area punctually. Unfortunately, donuts don’t always come with a hole and Tengstedt, who has accustomed us to caviar and champagne, this time wasn’t very precise. He and Sarr are the natural outcome of this team. This is the feeling you get when they play together even if not on a big night. But we must insist on this couple because in the end football also has its own logic and when both are at one hundred percent and have perfected the understanding, Verona will reap abundant fruits. Faraoni’s match was excellent: however it goes, the match against Napoli was very important for him. If he stays in Verona, we will finally be able to count on a very useful player. Conversely, Davide demonstrated that he still has a market. It was probably also Maurizio Setti’s last match as president. This will be the closing week. The American Verona is a chapter yet to be written. As always, history will judge the new masters. Thank you, however, must be said to Maurizio Setti. If Verona returned to having pride, dignity and regained its place at the center of the village, the credit was its own.
