Napoli have stormed the Champions League with THIRTEEN goals already

Thirteen goals scored in just three Champions League games with a goal difference of +11. Napoli continued their dominant march through Europe on Tuesday night after coming from behind to defeat Ajax 6-1 at the Johan Cruyff Arena.

The Italian team had never won in the Netherlands and decided to do so for the first time with a frenetic pace worthy of the best English clubs.

Walking and dancing on the rubble of Ajax, whistled at by a passionate traveling fan base, Napoli’s fireworks displays are becoming unmissable events while also making them one of Europe’s toughest opponents.

Napoli stunned Ajax on Tuesday night following their 6-1 Champions League win.

Napoli stunned Ajax on Tuesday night following their 6-1 Champions League victory.

The Serie A team came from behind to sweep the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam

The Serie A team came from behind to sweep the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam

At times, the Cruyff Arena sounded like there were around two million Napoli fans, which is how many of the city’s inhabitants have come to love its side better and better.

Naples is the city that never sleeps and this morning many fans went to work or school without much after their amazing success in the Dutch champions.

After the four goals scored against Liverpool and the three against Rangers, Napoli scored another six in the Netherlands to make it clear that they were the top scorer at the halfway stage of the group stage

In the Champions League this season he has scored 13 goals in only three group stage qualifiers

In the Champions League this season he has scored 13 goals in only three group stage qualifiers

Giacomo Raspadori has proven to be an instant hit after coming to the team on loan this season.

Giacomo Raspadori has proven to be an instant hit after coming to the team on loan this season.

Great score for Luciano Spalletti’s team, who continue to lead the group ahead of Liverpool, showing great mental strength to face the best clubs away from the fortress of the Maradona stadium.

In every match, the Napoli players give the impression of having fun and entertaining at the same time. They offer champagne football, scoring an average of three goals in each match, beating all statistical records in their history.

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No Napoli fan would have wanted the Ajax game to end. It seemed like a modern fairy tale, a dream that seemed impossible at kick-off after the Dutch team scored the opening goal in the ninth minute.

‘Cholito’ Simeone and Giacomo Raspadori look like two children entering an amusement park for the first time, scoring and rampaging despite the fact that this is their first Champions League event this season.

The Neapolitan team has also dominated at home and currently tops the Serie A table

The Neapolitan team has also dominated at home and currently tops the Serie A table

Napoli fans have been enchanted by the exploits of Luciano Spaletti’s Scugnizzi, showing how with ideas and tactical intelligence an ordinary team can be transformed into a top team capable of dominating even among the European elite.

At the moment, Napoli are playing better than any other major European club despite having potentially lower level players and costs equivalent to just one-eighth of Manchester City.

The Serie A side have no full-fledged great players, but they have managed to transform striker Khvicha Kvaratskhelia into a phenomenal player, reintroducing midfielder Stanislav Lobotka to great levels and rebuilding an aura of high security around the defense with left-back Mario Ruy. and goalkeeper Alex Meret.

Georgian star winger Kvaratskhelia is a lightning bolt who turns the game on and off at will and is a throwback to former Manchester United star Andrei Kanchelskis in his strength and shooting.

Winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been a key player behind Napoli's attacking success.

Winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been a key player behind Napoli’s attacking success.

He shares similar attacking traits with former Manchester United star Andrei Kanchelskis.

He shares similar attacking traits with former Manchester United star Andrei Kanchelskis.

Captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo’s team is an accordion that plays with the most concrete and elastic 4-2-3-1 that can exist, perhaps even superior to that of the Zinedine Zidane-inspired France team in terms of effectiveness and characteristics of the players. players.

Napoli is giving football lessons that deserve attention with players capable of making movements in spaces without the ball. They look like bishops on a chessboard and cut diagonally across the field destroying all defenses.

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They are also capable of reacting to setbacks in the game, such as falling behind in Amsterdam on Tuesday night which forced them to chase and turn the game around with a ferocity and aggressiveness devised through the great motivational work of Luciano Spalletti.

Angry, likeable, histrionic and profoundly Tuscan in the way of living and interpreting football, Spalletti is an extraordinary figure who brings fans closer to the team.

Coach Luciano Spalletti is proving extremely popular with fans of the Italian team.

Coach Luciano Spalletti is proving extremely popular with fans of the Italian outfit.

In training and on the field he wears the same tracksuit, always wears a Tibetan rosary as a necklace and uses a black pen as a Tuscan cigar between his fingers and between his lips when he is nervous.

His way of experiencing matches is visceral, he is the twelfth man on the pitch and above all he has courage. White sneakers are a good luck charm and he has a funny way of arranging tufts of grass before making a substitution that is endearing.

Spalletti goes against the stereotype that Italian teams are more defensively minded and looks more like an approach on par with the great Dutch teams of the 1970s and their famous brand of ‘total football’, led by Cruyff.

Napoli are also top of Serie A and from an undefeated start they have now won seven games in a row in all competitions. It does not seem possible how Spalletti has always been snubbed by the best Italian clubs to build a serious and long-term project.

Napoli fans are delighted with their team's excellent start to the season in all competitions

Napoli fans are delighted with their team’s excellent start to the season in all competitions

It is clear that Spalletti is more modern than more favorable names in the country like Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri, who earns much less than him, but has always had many problems receiving opportunities at Juventus or Milan, barring the brief two years. stage at Inter that ended in 2019.

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Napoli have shown Italy that you don’t have to defend all the time, but you can attack during the 90 minutes. After Spalletti’s third goal he urged his players to keep playing without ever turning off. The victory against Ajax has thus become a popular manifesto of modern football that will most likely be studied in Italian football schools and in the technical center of Coverciano.

In Napoli the fans are in love with Spalletti. A noisy link has been created between the coach and the city that today it seems very difficult to imagine him sitting on a different bench in the future.

Napoli lives a second sports youth and seems to have returned to the era of Diego Maradona. There is an out-of-control enthusiasm in the city that could be a long-term problem.

There is hope that the current team can now fight for the honors as it did in the days of the legendary Diego Maradona.

There is hope that the current team can now fight for the honors as it did in the days of the legendary Diego Maradona.

Right now the fans are living a collective dream and celebrating in bars and making collective collections in popular neighborhoods to follow the team in the next European away games.

At the moment, the biggest risk is that the World Cup stoppage in Qatar could halt the team’s growth as they work their way through opponents at home and abroad.

The crazy idea that the world’s top competition plays in the middle of Serie A and all the leagues represents a big question mark and shows the many organizational problems that exist for the teams.

Napoli have many players who will participate in the World Cup and the hope is that the general physical conditions will be sufficient to complete the race for the Scudetto when they return.

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