Napoli, Lukaku on the Scudetto fight: "Inter favourites, but we'll give it our all until the end"

Naples, 27 March 2025 - This session with the National, the last one during the championship, has been archived for him 3 goal marked within a few days who made the happy Belgium, which thus saved its presence in Lega A di Nations League, in addition to bringing to 399 total career goals scored: Romelu Lukaku, intercepted in the afternoon by the microphones of Radio Crc, dreams of reaching the round figure soon, very soon, with the shirt of a Napoli who in his opinion must continue to believe in the dream of the championship.  

Dreaming of 400 goals (and the Scudetto)

  The striker's chat with the broadcaster opens by talking about what recently happened in his homeland. "I made that speech without seeing the camera. However, the concept remains valid: we have to think about one game at a time and then see where we get to, facing and preparing each match as if it were a final". Starting with the one that Sunday evening will put the Napoli di fronte al Milan, match that could lead Lukaku at the fateful altitude 400 goal in career. "What I have achieved in National It was incredible, but for me, as always, the priority is the good of the team. We know that on Sunday we will face a strong opponent, full of quality, and we will prepare ourselves as best we can to obtain a great result. I have faith in the work we are doing together with the coach". From the near future to a past that saw the Belgian become a great protagonist of the first leg. "The one signed at San Siro It could be one of the best goals of my season. It's a goal that represents me: attack in depth on a great pass from Anguissa, but beyond that goal our entire performance was beautiful and important". For the class of '93, the understanding with the rest of the team is important, especially the offensive department, and with the coach, once again his mentor. Antonio Conte. "The coach had called me well in advance and I said yes almost immediately. We both know what I need to perform at my best, without mincing words. Beyond our more or less special relationship, he doesn't give me any special treatment, on the contrary, he is much more severe with me because he expects a lot. I like this responsibility, it has helped me grow a lot during my career and I will always be grateful to him. As for communication between us forwards, in fact we talk to each other a lot and this is important, because we play together despite having very different characteristics. This helps the coach to make decisions and to get the right results, helped by our understanding". Results that this year in the Campania capital could even lead to the championship, despite fierce competition. "TheInter is the favorite, everyone says so. They have a large and very high quality squad. TheAtalanta is making a great journey, crowned last year by the victory of theEuropa League, and now they are growing further. On our part - continues Lukaku - there is the desire to take revenge: no one expected us to find ourselves in this position, but now that we are here we have to continue to work hard. To make your dreams come true you have to be ready for anything, just like when you are in a winning cycle and you have to raise the bar even further because the others are improving. The fans themselves want to relive that feeling of victory, even more beautiful the second time. The coach instills this in us: as a footballer he savored every victory as if it were the first and we want to do the same, without feeling satisfied". The common thread between Lukaku and Napoli has a first and last name: Dries Mertens. "He spoke to me about all this that I then noticed when I arrived here: I'm talking about the affection of the people and the energy they give every time we play at home that I noticed from the first goal".

Lobotka's statements

  Meanwhile Stanislav Lobotka he was a guest of Valon Behrami, former player (and former Italian national team player), and of the format MySkills, held in collaboration with EA FC 25: we start from the relationship with Tale. "He has improved the mentality and the defensive phase, which I had already taken care of before but now in a different way. Furthermore, his training sessions are tough but thanks to them each of us has improved: we understood it from the first sessions, even though we knew that this season would be complicated. But he is a winner and he has shown it wherever he has gone". We then move on to Lukaku. "With him we play a different game also because the coach wants us to play the ball to him. He is big, he is strong and it is difficult to take the ball away from him. It is no coincidence that when I receive the ball I always try to look for him: Romelu he already knows because we communicate so much among ourselves". Everyone at home Napoli, each with their own qualities, are trying and will try to bring home a championship that is being fought over Atalanta, against whom I hate playing because of their full-field man-to-man pressing, and above all Inter. "Winning is always nice but you can't do it all the time. This year, for example, there are two teams fighting for the title Atalanta e Inter, who play well. On our part we can try to push more in training to try to win them all, but it is not easy. When we were first - continues Lobotka - people were already flying too much, but the reality is that winning the championship is not as easy as one might think from the outside". The Slovakian's chat ends by talking about his characteristics as a player. "I'm small and I always try to help the team in space by carrying the ball. Now it's more difficult because everyone knows me, while before they left me more space and I was happy. When I receive the ball I try to open up: if I move with my body no one expects it and whoever presses me, running, no longer has the opportunity to stop and steal the ball from me. So I direct the stop and go around him, trying to surprise him. But when I was little I was a winger who scored a lot and made a lot of assists: then I moved further back to play the ball more, becoming a midfielder".

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