Match metaphor of gattusismo. Rrahmani (forgotten on the bench for four months) best player of the match. Bakayoko emblem of the coach’s tactical suicide. What did Demme do to him?
The report cards of Naples-Verona 1-1 by Fabrizio d’Esposito and Ilaria Puglia.
MERET. In this gloomy and grotesque epilogue of the Gattusian Napule, Ilaria, the young Meret is one of the few to save face. To put it right-handedly he had courage (in the outings) and dignity. And he fought in vain the tiraccio of Pharaohs – 6
There is nothing to say to this guy: yesterday he was certainly the most in the game. Not surprisingly, when they framed him at the end of the first half, as the team went to the locker room, he had disappointment and despair painted on his face. Perhaps even embarrassment for his companions. The state of mind of the team was very clear to him, having already experienced it many times. The fear of the comrades was palpable. Meret is the only one who showed courage – 6.5
DI LORENZO. The Pinned landslide across the line. Wrong passes and loses balls to iosa and is the inverecondo fool of Lazovic and Zaccagni – 4
Terrified. He gets very few right: my notebook is dotted with negative signs. Just to name one: at 24 ‘he gives the ball to his opponents and Fabian has to recover it before it’s late, after exactly two minutes he makes a mistake again, so much so as to throw Verona into the goal and at that point Meret intervenes. He’s a national team man, that’s why I get even more pissed off – 3
MANOLAS. In the match that was supposed to celebrate the return to the Champions League, Ellenico and his colleague Rrahmani, that is the two central defenders, are the best in the field. And I said it all – 6
Sometimes imprecise and at the limit of the allowed, but at least it closes, Fabrizio – 6
Rahman. It is he who must advance from behind and score on a corner against his old teammates. He deserves half a vote more but his lack of exultation annoyed me. All this respect for Verona is not justifiable – 6
That he was definitely in the game was understood when only 20 seconds had passed from Chiffi’s whistle: it was there that he intervened for the first time to close. A pillar, this guy. He sure could have felt the tension and pressure of being an ex. And instead it stays shiny and applied until the last moment. Play a splendid game, helping to defend but also to build a minimum of play. And the goal is his. Dear Fabrizio, Amir is the same one who made the mold on the bench for four months. The fact that he scored in the only match that counted to win the championship deserves him not half a vote more, but a statue in Castel Volturno. Who cares about the lack of exultation – 8
HYSAJ. His farewell from Napule is the red carpet he spreads before Pharaohs for the draw of the accursed and unwatchable Juric. A fatal mistake, that is, of fate. All in all, the Albanian Honest Laborer did not deserve this bitter and Fantozzian farewell. And we didn’t deserve it – 3
I feel too embarrassed, Fabrizio. More embarrassment than pain, it’s a terrible feeling. I limit myself to voting – 3
MARIO RUI from 71 ‘. What is ignorance in football, Ilaria? I will explain it to my four-year-old son, little Diego Maria, by showing him that useless and irritating push from Marittiello to Zaccagni in the 92nd minute. They were two blues against one but the Lusitanian could not resist, losing precious seconds. Yet another confirmation to my atavistic suspicion about him: Mario Rui is not a thinking being – 4
The embarrassment continues – sv
FABIAN RUIZ. Poor Fabian has to load the team on his shoulders and carry the ball forward, thus always missing the decisive pass. He does not hit one despite the great effort – 5
He is called to overtime to put a patch on the horrors of his comrades. The sacrificial victim of the missing midfield. Already he is not a fast one of his own, then he is forced to play next to the stunt double of a midfielder (Bakayoko). A technical talent thrown away as if it were differentiated waste – 5
BAKAYOKO. Inexplicably many had shouted “alleluja” at his shaky match in Florence, but tonight the yellow and blue ate on his head, almost always overcoming him with momentum. I stop here, it is useless to rage again on its proverbial slowness – 4
Running is not included in his philosophy of life. He does not know what it is, perhaps no one has ever explained to him what it is for or how to do it. Slow, clumsy, useless in between. He does not recover a ball, not even one. It is the emblem of Gattuso’s tactical suicide in the last championship, when the Champions – 3 was at stake
PETAGNA from 81 ‘. El Comò is the last to try, head on – without a vote
Cross and final whistle. I’m done – sv
LOZANO. A single shot, tonight performance anxiety, if not fear, also holds El Tav in a vice from which it never frees – 4.5
Completely out of context. He had to be replaced after no more than twenty minutes (and told by someone who is not an admirer of Politano …) – 4
POLITANO from 67 ‘. His entrance brings a little life to the attacking planet: he goes to the shot twice, but on the occasion of the second flaw of selfishness, with El Comò free in the area – 6
I prayed, hoped, begged. But it was all in vain – 6
ZIELINSKI. Even San Piotr is lost in the blue desert. Instead of leading and shaking his teammates, he too sinks into a nervous mediocrity – 5
In the first half not received. In the second terribly inaccurate and opaque – 4.5
MERTENS from 71 ‘. Tell us, Mister Veleno, what could Ciro the Elder do in the desperation of the final twenty minutes? The fanatics, Ilaria, idolize dogmas and for many fans Mertens is an unshakable dogma. Once I would have agreed too, but it is painful to see him in these conditions – 4
“Mertens is heating up.” I yelled “NO!”. Useless. Gattuso, as always, at the end of the 70 ‘, puts Ciro on the field. Stupidly dogmatic to the end – 4
BADGE. Tonight the Captain had his face transfigured by something indefinable, between pain, anger and disbelief. Did something happen before entering the field? I don’t know if it hit you too, Ilaria, his face. That said, it does nothing or almost nothing and never surpasses the man – 4
Fear, Fabrizio. It was evident in the attitude of the eyebrow. He was terrified. Can a captain get it over when there is everything to be gambled on? Can he persist like that? Missing every step? It is the limit of this boy who has amazed us many times this year. Eventually the fabric comes out – 4
OSIMHEN. Gunter, think a bit, looks like a magician who regularly hides the ball from him – 3.5
Gunter simply makes it meat for slaughter. Listless, slow, a disaster – 3
GATTUSO. After all, let’s face it, this game is the metaphor of gattusismo in Naples. A concentration of anxieties, fears and confusion that was the basis of Mister Veleno’s lack of identity, only partially redeemed by the season finale. To make the true balance of one of the most overrated coaches of the earthly world, just look at the terrifying swing from last December 16 to March 3, thirteen games from the away match with Inter to that with Sassuolo. Other than the fake news of injuries: that Napule did not hold the pump as they say in Rome. And to spread him out on the analyst’s bed, not even Mister Veleno’s whips and whips were enough. A Napule who made the bolt, for example, with the poorest Barcelona of the last decade. With this squad we had to compete for the Scudetto and we ended up in the Europa League. Now it’s over and it’s over in the worst way, in line with Gattuso’s gray coaching career. But at least we got rid of it. As for the two of us, Ilaria, another championship has gone. It was nice to find ourselves here every time. Now rest. See you soon. Many kisses.
He is the first not to believe it. And in fact he remains silent for most of the game. Verona destroyed him already in the first leg and instead of making corrections, changing something, reading the game, he faces one of the worst suicides ever seen on the world of football. What could Demme ever have done to him, to leave him in the stands while Bakayoko destroyed football on the pitch? Playing the last league game without a midfield is just the latest collapse we have been forced to witness. It conveys mistrust and insecurity to her. We were hoping for a farewell in a festive atmosphere, but it was such a black tragedy that it will be difficult to dispose of. An incalculable economic damage. A blow that will probably also affect the choice of the future coach. He greeted us in the worst way. The only thing I can think of to relieve myself is that it’s finally over. Goodbye – 3
REFEREE CHIFFI. I did not understand if he had to go to the Var for that shoulder to Ciro the Elder. When in doubt, I blame him – 4
