Week 32: Napoli - Milan 21:45 July 12 2020

[Sleeping Giant]

Theo...1-0

[Arildonardo]

That's a great goal. Maybe we can take over control as Napoli was the better team until the goal.

[nefremo]

Excellent excellent goal.

All started with an overlap by Conti, long ball by Hakan, pushed Napoli back....than a great ball by Bennacer to Rebic whise back post cross found our other fullback. Can't say when the last time was when both our fullbacks played a part in the same goal.

Btw...this came after a couple very good opportunities from Napoli. They peobably should have been a goal up. Couple great saves by Gigio as well.

[Arildonardo]

And it's 1-1...

[devoted_dm]

Napoli are definitely dominating here, we're not coping too well with their high pressure.

[nefremo]

Napoli are definitely dominating here, we're not coping too well with their high pressure.

Yea. They are definitely the better team across the field. We just take tooooo long to.move forward. Most of our passes are passive. And once we do get into the final 3rd, we are slightly under pressure and are making bad mistakes on the final ball.

[devoted_dm]

Yeah we're lacking precision in our passing, lots of misplaced balls. That means we can't dictate the tempo of the match like we need to.

[nefremo]

Half time. We are somewhat fortunate to be tied. Napoli definitely did more than us in terms of game play as well as scoring opportunities. As a matter of fact, I don't think Ospina has had to make a save in this half.

As I mentioned...we are too negative in our passing. "Safe first", then go vertical. That seems to be the plan, and it' reallllyy slowing down our play.

We also made several bad technical mistakes on the ball in cruicial situations that could have been something for us.

We need to play better than this in the 2nd half.

[Artan]

hakan and paqueta are lost. somebody wake them up

[xudong]

Paqueta and Hakan are both terrible. We can't keep the ball at all in the first third. Every time we just punted the ball back to Napoli, and even Koulibaly had more possession than our attackers.

We don't deserve to be leading, but the way that we conceded left a sour taste in my mouth. What a stupid and unnecessary foul by Conti on Koulibaly that led to the free kick.

Was there a foul by Koulibaly on Kjaer for their goal?