Napoli, from the exits of Turati and Conte to the collapse of Inter: the new scudetto stock market

Naples, 21 April 2025 - It had to be a crucial juncture in terms of the Scudetto and it was a crucial juncture: the day 33 di Serie A marks a potentially decisive jolt at the top of the table, where they currently reign with equal points (71) the binomial Inter-Napoli. To try to settle the dispute by preventing a play-off that has been missing since 1964, and which curiously intertwines with the very current events, are missing 5 turns: on paper the easiest path is that of the Azzurri, who will have to deal, in order, with Turin, Lecce, Genoa, Parma e Cagliari, While the Beloved will have to face Roma, Verona, Turin, Lazio e As an, with the commitments of in between Coppa Italia e Champions League and all that they entail in terms of expenditure of psychophysical energy. As always, there will be divisions between those who maintain that playing more, net of the risk of injury (also present in every training session), can help or not, in spite of those who have a less busy schedule. Opinions: the certainty, to date, is that the From the Ara it is still indigestible for theInter, while the Napoli paradoxically it re-evaluates that draw obtained on the same pitch just a few weeks ago which instead, at the time, had left the bitter aftertaste of a missed opportunity.  

Inter, Bologna, Easter and the Scudetto Playoff: Similarities and Differences

  The final minutes of the two matches against Bologna of the two rivals for the championship today take on almost the appearance of a presage: while Santiago Castro, despite the mitigating factor of his precarious balance on the occasion and his current less than optimal physical conditions, he fails to deliver the knockout blow by slamming the ball zero metres from the debutant Simone scuffet, Riccardo Orsolini mockery Yann Sommer with an eye-watering stunt. This is what happened to the From the Ara respectively in the last few weeks and a few hours ago. Then there is a much more diluted juncture in time that involves theU Power Stadium: in mid-September theInter it equals you 1-1, while Saturday the Napoli he conquers it taking advantage of yet another goal (the ninth in the championship, as well as the tenth of the season) by Scott McTominay and, above all, a dry run of Stefano turati. For an almost entirely Italian ugliness, the points at the end of the season are considered more weighty than those collected, or left on the road, when the championship is in its early stages. The same 2-2 cashed in on a comeback Parma risks taking on a different consistency at home today Inter, albeit with a nice big asterisk of hope that involves a Napoli that the Tardini, notoriously another trap, has yet to make a stop. Between points gained, points lost, lucky or unlucky episodes and all the other disquisitions of the case, the reality is that today the Nerazzurri and the Neapolitans have the same points and for the former this scenario with a possible view of the play-off does not evoke good memories. Needless to say, it still has something to do with the Bologna, In which 1964 sewed up the seventh (and last) championship in its history by winning the 'bella' on a torrid day in early June after a championship full of poison, scandals and controversies that would make today's football pale, which also runs at the hysterical pace of social media. Curiously enough, even in that year, theInter made a stop at the then Comunale on the day of a Easter which would have been nicknamed 'of blood' more for a misunderstanding in the newspaper than for the effects of the winds of war that were blowing between the two rivals: at the time there was a victory, but also the lack of success in the championship at the end of the season. Now the opposite could happen, or maybe not, with the Napoli to play the role of new entry in a situation that has been experiencing new balances since yesterday evening.

The exits of Turati and Conte

  The gem of Ursu and the calendar, apparently more easy compared to that of their rivals, also weighed down by the psychological backlash for the comeback suffered, seems to shift the burden of pressure onto the shoulders of the Azzurri, who in the meantime Monza, together with the three points, they also suffered two exits. One, that of Turati, in fact opens the entire mirror of the door to McTominay, more and more the man of providence and, who knows, maybe of the championship. If the Scotsman's goals are no longer news, in a certain sense also the exits of Antonio Conte pre and post match are becoming a constant that probably everyone would do without. The Salento coach never misses an opportunity to underline, in his own way, how the bond with the Napoli is actually much more fragile than what the contract expiring on says 30 June 2027. From the supposedly dilapidated infrastructure to the controversial local media, passing through the rather poor youth system before arriving at the sale in January of Khvisha Kvaratskhelia, the real bone of contention in the whole affair: the magic of the honeymoon seems to have dissolved for Tale, which with such conduct can only be divisive. For some, despite what the pitch has said in the last matches and what the next calendar proposes, the risk of destabilizing the environment and the team right in the key part of the season is very high, while for someone else the opposite theory holds: these statements, more or less intentionally, are shifting the focus of attention and pressure from the players to the coach, evidently more accustomed to covering this thankless role. Probably the needle on the scale of definitive judgments will only move at the end of the championship, depending on the outcome of the fight for the championship that since yesterday has seen the Napoli practically in pole position. Thanks to everything that happened in the 33th day di Serie A, which has remained unfinished for now the suspension decided due to the death of Pope Francesco. THE'Inter falls (again) to Bologna, while the Napoli barely gets the better of Cinderella Monza and it does so in practice only thanks to an unfortunate exit from Turati, as were those of Tale which, who knows, seen from another perspective could ultimately turn out to be a help to the team.

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