Empoli-Napoli, Antonio Conte partially dissatisfied and the Tuscans are furious
Empoli-Napoli, Antonio Conte partially dissatisfied and Tuscans are furious
Empoli angry about the penalty awarded for Anjorin’s alleged foul on Politano and converted by Kvaratskhelia, which decided the Castellani challenge in favor of Napoli 1-0. "In our opinion there was no foul, I do not know where the foul is,” said Roberto Gemmi, sporting director who spoke at the end of the match due to mild facial paresis of coach Roberto D'Aversa, "and let me tell you, that episode decided the match. There was è talk of a stomp that I do not see. I would call it a penalty, and we were told that fouls like that would no longer be whistled".
Otherwise the ds liked the performance è liked it: "We are happy with the performance, we are proud to be able to compare ourselves with realities like these and we did it well. But I want to repeat myself, the penalty I did not understand, I repeat I do not see contact but maybe I saw wrong. Then the referee can make mistakes, but that weighs on the result. We probably would have lost the same, but this penalty unless it falls among those penalties that should no longer be given or should have been evaluated differently".
Despite the three points, not totally satisfied Antonio Conte with the performance of his team, especially the first half. “We wanted to win this game, he had given warnings on the eve of the game and I did not do it by chance. There were so many pitfalls here in Empoli: for me, D'Aversa's team è one of the most in form in the league and here no one had yet scored".
“I didn't like the approach of the first half, we had said some things to each other and instead we were timid. I don't know if we were scared, maybe because of the non-positive tradition here in Empoli. The fact is that the first half did not è go well, in so many ways both in possession and non-possession. In the second half we changed something and switched to a different form, especially in the construction of the game. In the end if Empoli scored in the first half there would have been nothing to say, in the second half we deserved. The match è was balanced".