Napoli, Anguissa: "Conte asks a lot and wants more goals from me"

Naples, 17 December 2024 - As often happens in football, when there is a half-goleada, especially if it is a comeback, the main laurels go to those who opened the dance and those who put the arrow of the overtaking: for those who instead 'only' had the skill to put the classic icing on the cake of glory there is very little. Speaking of the recent success of the Napoli in the house ofUdinese, the latter area includes Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa, who spoke to the microphones of this afternoon Radio Crc.  

From Udinese to Genoa (via Vieira)

  The Cameroonian's chatter starts right from the tail, a seal that only confirmed the exponential growth of a player who is returning to the levels of the year of the championship. "That goal is a play that we try in training, as well as many other things. I'm happy to have scored and to have contributed to the victory. When I play I don't think about scoring goals: it's more important that the team wins. Today the role of the midfielder must do everything that I try to do and the coach himself tells me that I can even score eight goals a season. For me, I repeat, it's not the priority, which goes to the well-being of the team, but if it happens I'm happy". And who knows, maybe it could happen again against Genoa, the next opponent of the Azzurri. "I can't say what the match on Saturday will be like, because I'm only concerned with what we have to do. It will be important to stay focused on our plays and on what the coach asks of us on the tactical set-up, because this is what can change the course of the match. We will have to be focused on ourselves, to decide how to make the match go. From this point of view - continues Anguissa - I can say that the Napoli must be a team capable of winning against anyone and Saturday's will be one of the challenges that we will try to win". In short, at least according to the class of '95, the Azzurri have already absorbed the effects of the double blow inflicted by Lazio, who in three days took the quarter-finals of Coppa Italia and then the three points in the championship. All this is part of the past, as is the lucky away match Udine: now in front there is the 'new' Genoa weblog Patrick Vieira, one who in the past decades has been one of the strongest midfielders around. "Having known him at London, I really like him as a man. At the time he was the coach of the Crystal Palace and he wanted to take me there. I like talking to him, because he has so many ideas, and in addition to being a coach, I appreciate him as a person. He is good and it will be a pleasure to see him back on the bench of Genoa, but obviously I hope that in the end we will win."

Discovering Conte's Game

  A surprise Anguissa It also reveals a market background from its past: the much more recent one of Napoli talks about an excellent path in the championship in which however there were some stumbles, due to their own shortcomings but perhaps even more so due to the merits of the opponents of the moment, of whom the Cameroonian speaks trying to express his opinion without however going too far. "To tell the truth, I prefer to live football than watch it: I play match after match and I don't care what the other teams do. For example, I didn't watch the matches of Inter e Atalanta: I play to win our games and see where we will be at the end of the championship. Obviously, together with the coach and his staff we watch the videos to prepare the matches and also through this data I think there are many strong teams. TheAtalanta he's doing very well, theInter it's strong and so am I Milan e Juventus. But I don't look at them, I can't lie. I think that today the Napoli is the only team that counts and can win: the rest doesn't interest me". The philosophy of Anguissa it's not exactly common in a football that is increasingly media-driven and transversal. And how is that of Antonio Conte? "The coach asks me not to be lazy. He is a fantastic coach and I can't say anything different. He always wants the best from our performances. For the rest, his tactical requests vary depending on the match and the opponents. From me he wants personality and good technical work. You have to have the right quality to do what the coach asks: it was like that with Luciano Spalletti and it is so now. Tale, as mentioned, wants him to score more and the head can help in these cases. The rest varies from match to match". In reality, the work of Anguissa he is also valuable in the retreat phase and as a screen for a defense that continues to suffer little or nothing, confirming himself as the strong point of the entire team Napoli. "The coach thinks a lot about the defensive aspect, but as a collective and not just as a department. It's the whole team that defends together and attacks together. His philosophy has always been this and we, starting from the goalkeeper up to the central striker, try to satisfy him". Then if in the control room there is Stanislav Lobotka, the impression is that everything becomes easier. "I also love him as a person. He never speaks, he is calm and he lets these things shine through on the pitch too. He is never afraid to make plays that many wouldn't make. We meet with our eyes closed and it's easy to play with players like that close to us: we are all friends - he admits Anguissa - but with him the relationship is special even on the green rectangle". If this is the 'old', the new responds to the Scottish tandem composed of Scott McTominay e Billy gilmour who is already fully convincing. "They are two really strong players and two beautiful people, and for me the human side counts a lot. Both come from another championship: gilmour he needs to play more, while McTominay we have already seen that it can be decisive in many ways and moments. Our real strength - he concludes Anguissa - is that we all help each other."

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