Napoli's Hard-Fought Battle Ends Without Victory Against Roma

He hoped to be able to bring her home with a deserved victory, but in the end, even after a valiant performance, his Napoli fails to take home the three points. "The performance was positive, I saw quality and pride, unfortunately, we were not able to achieve a success that we would have deserved," were the words of Francesco Calzona at the end of the match against Roma. A final cold shower that hurts. "We sinned on two key episodes. We knew about the strength of Roma on set pieces and in the last corner I inserted Ostigard who is a header hitter just to try to be stronger in the aerial game. I took off Traorè, whom I had put in during the match, but I needed physicality in the last minutes, unfortunately, it was not enough," Calzona further explained. In front of Napoli, the last four matches of the season: "Reviewing the goal conceded, we should have attacked the ball more on the cross from the corner, this was a mistake, but now it's gone and we look ahead. It is yet another episode of a really difficult season. The boys feel the weight of a truly complicated and in many ways bitter year. However, we have the duty to play football and try to finish as best as we can. Today we conceded very little to a team that, with De Rossi, has a very high goal average," explained the blue coach. "I come out of this match encouraged because we made a good performance. It is clear that if you do not win everything becomes more difficult. However, I reiterate that today we perhaps had the most in-form team of the championship and we were up to par. The retreat? I have not spoken with the company for tomorrow. I have always said that any retreat should be constructive: in these days I have seen the team stay together with pleasure," he concluded.