Serie A 2019/20 (53 Viewers)
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Playing Juventus isn't the same as playing any other side in Serie A. On that day Napoli set up a frantic defensive plan with countering, and had 100% motivation. It's a specific plan to play a superior team. At home to Lecce is a different thing altogether, they are forced to play more open and they will not have the same focus.
Trust me, if we had gone a goal up against them they would have fallen apart. But that's football.
Trust me, if we had gone a goal up against them they would have fallen apart. But that's football.
While this is true to a degree... Napoli had more possession than us (52%), completed more passes, and had almost double the attempts at goal. They were also missing Koulibaly, Allan, and Mertens in that match. While much of their passing and possession was just playing keep away from us in their own half or outside our final third, they most certainly did not park the bus like most small teams allowing us all the possession, soaking up a huge amount of pressure and hitting exclusively on the counter. We barely pressured them, with or without the ball, and while they did counter at times, more often they just dinked the ball around their own half until an opening appeared for a quick surge forward before returning to their defensive shape.
Already in Juve form 
Conte has turned Inter into a machine against small sides, they work hard as heck regardless of opponent and motivated against even the shittiest teams, but they are susceptible to the same issues his early Juve teams had... draws due to a lack of quality final ball.
They got spanked by us which was to be expected, but that’s their only loss in Serie A this season. They never actually look like losing to any of the lesser teams in the league (which we do thanks to laziness and a lack of motivation at times) but have suffered 6 draws because of lack of ability to finish. Thankfully their quality in the final 3rd is nowhere near ours or I’d imagine a few of those draws would have been wins and we’d be looking up at them right now in the table.
We’ll likely win the scudetto because of this, even if we continue to underperform.
They got spanked by us which was to be expected, but that’s their only loss in Serie A this season. They never actually look like losing to any of the lesser teams in the league (which we do thanks to laziness and a lack of motivation at times) but have suffered 6 draws because of lack of ability to finish. Thankfully their quality in the final 3rd is nowhere near ours or I’d imagine a few of those draws would have been wins and we’d be looking up at them right now in the table.
We’ll likely win the scudetto because of this, even if we continue to underperform.
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