Naples, from the hotel to the sofa: Fiorentina is still on the road to the Scudetto

Naples, 7 February 2025 - That in recent years the relationship between theInter and the asterisks in the rankings were not easy was a known fact and a first taste of the script had already been had in the match against Bologna postponed due to the Super Cup, which ended in a draw. The other slope in the ranking concerned the race against the Fiorentina interrupted over two months ago due to the illness that occurred to Edward BoveThis time the Nerazzurri are even worse off and so is the Franchi matures a 3-0 very heavy that from a distance makes the happy Napoli, currently leading the list with a +3 which is no longer just virtual: the same Napoli which, curiously, at those latitudes the April 28, 2018 had 'lost the championship in the hotel', as stated by the then coach Maurizio Sarri. The years pass, the coaches and the teams change, but history, with the roles reversed, seems to repeat itself. And this time the winners, perhaps from the sofa and not in a hotel, are the Azzurri, since yesterday with a piece of the tricolor virtually sewn on their chest.  

From Florence to Florence, from the hotel to the sofa

  Sure, compared to that 3-0 signed by Giovanni Simeone, another who then after some time would have made peace with his future team becoming a protagonist of the championship 2022-2023 season, there is still a good chunk of the championship to play: we are not in late spring, but in winter and the return round has just begun, with all the pitfalls that come with it that will increase as the finish line gets closer and the specific weight of each point will grow also and above all for the teams fighting not to be relegated. However, the fact remains that since yesterday the Napoli is master of his own destiny, unlike what happens in 2018, when in between, just to continue with the parallels, there was precisely theInter. The fight for the title, however, saw the Juventus, who, in a comeback (and not without refereeing controversy), conquered the Meazza for 3-2, with the final seal being placed by Gonzalo Higuain, the former darling of Fuorigrotta which extinguished the dreams of the fans who had idolised him until a few months earlier and with whom he had set a record for goals (36) in a single championship of Serie A still in force in cohabitation with Ciro Immobile. That game the Napoli he looked at her from the hotel Florence and he did it by experiencing that rollercoaster of emotions that, according to Sarri, would have caused the race to blackout Franchi scheduled for the next day: 3-0 signed by Simeon and goodbye to dreams of glory, even though the mathematical surrender in the rankings would have occurred a few weeks later. Almost 7 years , Fiorentina becomes once again, perhaps, the referee of the fight for the Scudetto by handing out another 3-0, this time to aInter appeared without bite and attitude to the point of not receiving an alibi even from Simone Inzaghi, aware since yesterday evening together with his team of having definitively lost the more or less grateful scepter of favourites for the championship victory. The other side of the coin is the Napoli, which now really can no longer be hidden behind the mouths of society or Antonio Conte, bringing into play balance sheets, more or less questionable market operations, general economic and salary constraints and the now almost anachronistic comparison with what was collected - or not collected - in the last season. The present of a year that in truth for some time already carried with it all the positive scents of the case is more blue than ever. Even if, indeed, with almost unprecedented traps.  

Doubt in defense between Buongiorno and Juan Jesus

  So far the Napoli in fact he played a bit of hide and seek also thanks to the clever dialectic of Tale, a master of communication in such cases, but the assist came from Florence, among other things in the complicated following week to braking against the Rome, is too important to be relegated to the second line. The same calendar, after an uphill start to the second half of the season, now seems to smile on the Azzurri by proposing in the next round thethe home match against theUdinese: for the 'Inter, this time a San Siro, on the horizon of a new one will materialize Fiorentina. This time, reasoning based on the inertia of the last few hours and the value on paper of the teams in play, the league leaders have the chance to attempt the first real escape of a championship that has entered its hottest phase. Here we return to the hidden traps. The first is called Udinese, the classic mid-table team that, as such, could reserve some surprises, between light-heartedness and the desire to get on the very last good train for the positions that lead to the zone Europe. The second trap leads back to the Franchi and the inevitable party that broke out after the 3-0 trimmed by the Fiorentina all 'Inter: a boomerang when excessive enthusiasm and self-confidence to beat theUdinese become presumption and arrogance. Speaking about Sunday night's race at Maradona, Tale now he has problems with consistency in defense: the recovery of Alessandro Good morning it is in fact completed, but to remove from the field a Juan Jesus in this psycho-physical condition it almost seems like a gamble. It is possible that a relay race could take place between the two, with the aim of starting to give the ex Turin that playing time that will help him to regain the shine of his golden days after almost 2 months of stop. Paradoxically at the moment the attack is causing a few more headaches, too anemic to Rome and on other occasions then resolved by the flash of a single individual. Not only that: at theOlympic not even the physical condition of the Azzurri, in the long term, seemed excellent, but who knows, maybe the boost of life that arrived yesterday from Franchi do not give new verve to the true 'new' league leaders.

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