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Hist

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I am glad Napoli is achieving stability to be honest. Finishing top 3 is becoming their norm which is good for Serie A especially that they have some character in europe unlike Roma. They have found a functioning system and structure. Roma is almost there. Inter has the potential this year while Milan is hopeless.
 

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They still have no defense. Allowing 8 goals in 8 games is going to get them nowhere. Yes, they are very impressive in attack, yet they are not Barca or Madrid and will not outscore almost every opponent they come up against. They need defensive solidity.

They've managed to get very lucky in the draw and avoid having a single team from a top 5 league (Spain, Germany, England, Italy, France) in their group. As soon as they come up against a "good" team, their defensive deficiencies will be exposed badly. Benfica should have scored 2 goals in the first 15 minutes today, before Napoli turned on the jets and crushed them going forward. Napoli won't be so lucky against better teams with more prolific finishers, nor will they be able to take the game to those teams.

Overrated team, just like Roma was last year after they managed to draw Barca 1-1, and beat us in Serie A.
 

Hist

Founder of Hism
Jan 18, 2009
11,624
They still have no defense. Allowing 8 goals in 8 games is going to get them nowhere. Yes, they are very impressive in attack, yet they are not Barca or Madrid and will not outscore almost every opponent they come up against. They need defensive solidity.

They've managed to get very lucky in the draw and avoid having a single team from a top 5 league (Spain, Germany, England, Italy, France) in their group. As soon as they come up against a "good" team, their defensive deficiencies will be exposed badly. Benfica should have scored 2 goals in the first 15 minutes today, before Napoli turned on the jets and crushed them going forward. Napoli won't be so lucky against better teams with more prolific finishers, nor will they be able to take the game to those teams.

Overrated team, just like Roma was last year after they managed to draw Barca 1-1, and beat us in Serie A.
They have a weak defense that is true but they are much better than Roma in Europe. Roma has a mental problem that they don't have. Ofcourse if they had a heavy weight in their group they wouldn't finish first but they wont just bendover like Roma does. You could see that in their appearances in the group of death in previous years where they narrowly missed out on qualification in a very tough group.

Their defense can get better over the course of the season they werent that leaky last year.
 
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