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What's missing in Hirving Lozano's Napoli, according to the fans

By Mauricio Saenz

After the defeat against AZ Alkaamar in the Europa League, fans got to social media to show their critics to Gennaro Gattuso.
 

After the defeat against AZ Alkaamar in the Europa League, fans got to social media to show their critics to Gennaro Gattuso.  

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Napoli's defeat against AZ Alkaamar is inadmissible. That's crystal clear. They were playing against a minor rival, at home, in the San Paolo stadium. In addition, they share Group F of the UEFA Europa League with Real Sociedad and Croatian Rijeka, which means that this lost really complicates the plans for Hirving Lozano and Gennaro Gattuso's side.

As we have been saying here at El Futbolero US, the problem in Napoli isn't Lozano, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne or losing Arkadiousz Milik. The problem in Napoli is Gennaro Gattuso. The coach can't seem to find a suitable style of play for his players, and insist con childish fights with Chucky Lozano, who is right now his most dangerous player.

In addition, after the game, Napoli fans got to social media and, besides showing his madness to Gattuso and the players, pointed out that Napoli isn't taken advantage of the free throughs they receive. The Italian squad used to be very dangerous on the air game due to very tall players like captain Kalidou Koulibaly or former striker Duvan Zapata.

In this sense, it's true that Lozano is in charge of the free throughs and corner kicks, but it's also true that Napoli does not show to have a clear plan on how to attack an air ball. This means that, neither you count on a good free kick shooter and good and good knocking connections, if your coach does not pay attention to systematize your behavior on the air, there's little chance you will score that way. As we have already said: at the end, it always comes back to Gattuso been a bad coach. 


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