Napoli Win: Supercoppa Italiana Final Bound

It started at Riad the Italian Super Cup. Like last year, they are quattro the teams to play the trophydivided into two semi-finals. And the first of final four to dispute the Finale will be the Napoliwho last night he beat with a peremptory victory 2-0 – and result netdifficult to predict – the Milan Of Massimiliano Allegriwhich in championship he had done well against the others big from the Serie A. It’s the second goal shaded for i Rossoneri in a few days, after leaving the Round of 16 of the Italian Cup against the Lazio Of Maurizio Sarriil December 4th last. A very important month for future from the season of Milan, which ended with the exit of devils from two of the three competitions in which they were at stake. While in Serie A they remain firmly in second place behindInter Of Cristian Chivu. I Nerazzurri who, tonight, will challenge the Bologna in the second Semifinal.

On the campoNapoli closed the case with the goals of David Neres al 39’ e di Rasmus Højlund al 64’with the Danish also author ofassist for the net of the advantage. There we are it opened with a Rossoneri opportunity: al 4’ Strahinja Pavlovic he found it in an overhead kick Ruben Loftus-Cheek in front of Vanja Milinković-Savićwho saves his own. Al 16’ Fikayo Tomori he fished Christopher nunku at the far post, but the conclusion from the Anglo-Congolese only a high shot auspicious Alexis Saele makers. The Neapolitans responded to the half an hour: al 32’, Matteo Politano he lets a pass slide to Højlund, who serves Scott McTominaywhose right-footed shot ended just wide. Seven minutes later the goal arrives: Højlund breaks through on the left, Mike Maignan he doesn’t hold onto the ball and Neres deposits it in net. In the second half Milan tried to react, but 53’ it is still Napoli who make themselves dangerous with Amir Rahman and a very powerful shot from distance. il doubling he arrived at 64’when one restart orchestrated by Leonardo Spinazzola allows Højlund to finish from a tight angle: Maignan misses the save, the ball hits the palo and enter. The Rossoneri siege is sterile: al 73’ Højlund sfiora il trisall’88’ McTominay wastes the possible 3-0.

At the end of the game, Antonio Conte underlines the maturity of the team: “I Boys they showed that we wanted to do one serious gamewhich we wanted to defend scudettothat we were here not by invitation but because we earned it. We enjoyed it evening against one great team. That’s good.” The coach adds: “We must always be supported by a great team energyit’s important to us because we do a soccer quite expensive and not speculative. We’re also good physically, but it’s inevitable that when you accumulate games matches every three days, you are forced to play with the same ones or always rotate with the same ones.”

On the other hand, Allegri recognizes the limits highlighted by the team: “We could have performed better on both golbut it was one match played well by both teams. They were better at defensive phase. We concede goals far too easily and we need to improve.” And he warns: “We should have attacked the game better.”areabut when you take two goals in every game for three consecutive times we need to look at it better defensive phase. Now we have to find again it is serenehasbecause only in this way can we achieve the goal of arriving in first four. It won’t be easy, but we have to get back on track I walk and improve on errors that we committed tonight.”