Napoli, Rrahmani: "Our strength is the group, as Conte wants"

Naples, January 30, 2025 – In a Napoli on the hunt for a defender to reinforce the department that is working best of all in the context of an almost perfect machine (the last lead, far from easy, leads to Pietro Comuzzo of Fiorentina), Amir Rrahmani he returned to shine as he did in the championship season, in the name of leadership, experience and quality: all qualities that are very popular Antonio Conte, as confessed by the Kosovar to the microphones of Radio Crc.

Rrahmani's statements

"For the coach I'm a robot, but I think we all are a bit, because we do similar things and every week we prepare the games together. We all have to do what the coach asks of us and so we are all robots. Our great strength is the defensive solidity that we have rediscovered, because we defend as a team, all together, starting with the forwards, who start the pressure up front making it easier for us in the back line. This is the key to our team: defending up front and applying strong pressure to help us in the back line. In this way the balls that reach the forwards we play against are not clean and we are able to intervene better and earlier". So, Rrahmani explains in detail the tactical innovation that has effectively revolutionised a rearguard that a year ago was a colobrado and which today is instead the best in Serie A and also among the best in Europe. Of course, in the meantime, apart from the coach, in the Napoli and in his defense some protagonists have also changed but not Rrahmani, who has recovered greatly after the season of collective decline experienced after the revelry of the Scudetto. "This is the fifth year that I have been here and the fact of wearing this shirt for a long time already makes me feel like a leader. If this is the positive aspect, the negative aspect is that it is not easy to be in the same team for so many seasons: you need to have continuity, stability and you need to always guarantee high-level performances. At a collective level, we try to do everything the coach asks of us. When we started with him we did more defensive work and now we know perfectly the movements he wants from us. Today we work more as a group, all together, with the aim of preparing the game in the best possible way". From the group, a concept very dear to Tale and at the same Rrahmani, to individuals: we start from Alessandro Good morning, the new face of this year who was nothing short of decisive before the injury to his lumbar vertebrae that is keeping him out (but apparently for a short time). "He is strong in one-on-one situations and reads the dynamics of the game very well. We work well together". We then move on to Juan Jesus, the teammate who has returned to prominence precisely because of the physical problem that occurred to his former teammate Turin: in this case the words spent by the Kosovar towards a player with an important curriculum and who seemed to have ended up outside the blue project are many and almost obligatory. "He is also a great defender. Just think that, in addition to the Napoli, he also played in theInter and in Rome and it's not easy for a player to play for such a long time in teams like that, especially if you don't have certain qualities. He, on the other hand, is a very high level player and he has demonstrated it by being ready in these moments of need". Speaking about Juan Jesus, Rrahmani he appointed the Rome, the next opponent of the league leaders, who do not intend to stop their march. "We all try to give our best, because if we don't do that it becomes difficult to win matches. In the next round we will face a great team, trained by a great coach, who is also new but against whom we have already played on the occasion of his first match on the Giallorossi bench. In the meantime they have acquired the automatisms required by the coach and do what he asks. They demonstrate it - he concludes Rrahmani - the positive results they are finding, so we have to be careful and prepare the match as best we can".

The importance of the Rome race

The match of theOlympic Warehouse Napoli It could mean an eighth consecutive victory, a very important seal also considering that in the meantime theInter will have to deal with the never banal problem of the derby with the Milan on the horizon. Therefore, the possibility of starting to take an advantage that is not only virtual like the current one exists. In fact, to date the Nerazzurri are 3 points behind, which could be filled in the event of a success in the home match of Fiorentina postponed to a date to be determined following the illness that occurred on the pitch Edward Bove. Of course, regardless of recovery for many the Napoli However, it has several advantages: from the virtual one, which psychologically begins to have a certain weight, to the real one of having a full week of work without other commitments, while theInter just yesterday he toasted the qualification for the round of 16 of Champions League without even going through the playoffs. And yet, despite the many clues that are starting to make more than one proof, Tale he doesn't trust and, as also declared by his players (not least Rrahmani), think about preparing each match as best as possible. A match that will also see Good morning, barring any last-minute surprises, return to the list of players called up after the long break which however did not damage the Napoli, who without the linchpin of his defense won 6 out of 6 games and just cashed in 4 goals. This is due to the team play and cohesion he was referring to. Rrahmani, with or without Good morning he remains and will remain the leader of the department, just as already happened in the championship season.

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