Napoli post-match thread

The players seemed greedier on the ball than usual. A couple of passes from Silva at the right time and Sane was clear through. We were unlucky with the bar though.
 
This bit of that excellent recent Blizzard piece about Guardiola is perhaps pertinent tonight:

It is a constant of Pep’s career that his teams play their best football in the first 30 to 35 minutes of a game. That is precisely the human brain’s natural capacity for sustained concentration, as cognitive psychologists determined some years ago.
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A little unlucky with KdB hitting the bar and not going in, and then the other chance that sat on the line. Had those gone in it would have been another battering, but this ref must have given Napoli a lot of belief that they could get something out of it. I've no idea what the first pen was for and the fact that defenders and attackers looked totally bemused as to what he'd awarded, and the second one the guy went looking for a foot to trip over. Every 50-50 he gave to them. The most laughable was D Silva jumping with someone where both went for the ball, Silva ends up with a bandage on his head and Napoli end up with the free kick. The guy strutted about the field like some kind of egocentric peacock. Was it the same guy who booked Sergio for simulation in the Monaco game last season when he was totally cleaned out for the most blatant pen of our CL campaign. He was putrid in that game if it were he, and he has morphed into execrable in the meantime.
 
Indeed, when was the last time an English team beat the current serie A leaders in a group game? Last 2 times we played Italian opposition in the CL, we came off 2nd best
 
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