Excuses, excuses, excuses!!

By: ciro | January 17th, 2012

So it was the pitch’s fault, or maybe it was because the team wants to attack too much and we were too shiny. “More often than not, teams who come to the Stadio San Paolo defend in an exaggerated manner – playing for two results out of three.” (What does that mean?) A few incidents also went against us today. Take Marek Hamsik who missed in front of the goalkeeper. That was like an open-play penalty” (What?) So it’s Hamsik’s fault he missed Napoli’s one and only clear cut chance at home To Bologna. “The teams are here in Naples to make the Barricades and then set off on the break.” We know this, we’ve known this all season, yet you have no counteractive plan. Pioli did it last year with Chievo and he did it again this year, Dear Meza Latrina Mazzari all week we knew Bologna would be set up with a five man back line that would snuff out the threat from Napoli’s two wing backs but did you do anything about it, could you have done anything about it? You play three centre backs against a team not willing to attack and two defensive midfielders, leaving the trident stacked against seven Bologna players.
You say players performed below par but yet you refuse to make a change and subsitute said players. Your wishy washy excuses and watch tapping histrionics are getting old, Napoli’s players are better than your one dimensional tactic and formation, with the attacking players we have we shouldn’t struggle to create chances at home. You wont sign a new contract, Good, no loss to me… You think you will get a better job than Napoli, no chance, you’ll be sacked after three weeks….

Peter Griffin or Dustin Hoffman could do a better job…

I don’t know if there is any point in doing a match report, if you’re a Napoli fan then you know exactly how this match panned out. For 10/20 minutes we played well and should have taken the lead, Bolonga go down the other end and score a goal caused by a defensive mistake. Then Bologna pull all their players back into their own half and defend the lead. Napoli struggle to break them down and get a slice of luck and equalise with a Cavani penalty. Mazzari then throws on the kitchen sink to try and get a winner, meanwhile the Napoli defense is left unbalanced by the substitutions and Bolonga could and should have found a winning goal. Watching Napoli at home to the lower placed teams is like fucking groundhog day. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” Well we only expect one result but it never comes.

De Sanctis =6 Not much to do during the game cept the goal and a good save made at the end.
Campagnaro =4 At fault for the goal, added nothing going forward and was too shaky in defence
Cannavaro= 5.5 Tackled well but couldnt organise a nervy defence, his long range passing was terrible.
Aronica =6 The best of the 3 man defence but thats not saying a lot. Still makes the left hand side with Dossena a worry. Tried to start the play with his diagonal balls and came out of defence with good results.
Maggio =2 Worst display ever from Superbike, was kicked twice in the opening minutes and shrinked from any involvement after. Couldn’t control the ball, couldn’t pass the ball, couldn’t tackle and could barely run but still lasted 82 minutes on the field. (Mind Boggling)
Dossena =4 Not much better play on the left, can’t beat his man and his crosses are aimless, he isn’t sharp, so many attcks break down at his feet. We need another left wing back FAST. We can’t have Andrea playing there all season and Zuniga is no replacement for him.
Inler =5 Another poor shift from Inler, his play was too slow, couldn’t control the ball, mistimed tackles and gave away cheap possession. Hasnt had a good game in weeks.
Gargano =6 Little Walter had it all to do, picked up the slack from the other midfielders and ran hard, covered every inch of pitch and was left to dictate the play, which we knows is not his forte.
Hamsik =6 Missed another good chance in front of goal, tried to make amends by driving forward but could create no more chances.
Pandev =6 Napoli’s best player but still was too ineffective. Had no space to play into and was harried by at least two Bologna players every time he got the ball.
Cavani =6 Was a ghost for most of the match, got no room and no service, had to come deep for the ball but the play usually bypassed him. Took his penalty well.

Zuniga =6 Came on for Campagnaro early in the second half, was better than Maggio but then again that wouldn’t have been hard. Made a great covering tackle late on to deny Di Vaio and Bolonga the win.
Vargas =5 Came on with five minutes to go, created some danger while wide on the right but gave the ball away again with a stupid back heel on the edge of the Bolonga box that resulted in a Bolonga attack.
Luccarelli =N/A Pointless sub, stood waiting to come on for five minutes and when he did get on the whistle was blown straight after.

Mazzari =1 Clueless.