Napoli, Antonio Conte brakes again: ‘Inter and Atalanta are ahead’

Despite the victory, great caution remains.

Napoli again lead Serie A’s solitary top spot after a not-so-contentious 1-0 victory over Roma at the Maradona Stadium. Romelu Lukaku’s goal allowed the Azzurri to pull themselves back one point ahead of the group composed of Inter, Atalanta and Fiorentina. Yet Antonio Conte continues to fear the two Nerazzurri from Lombardy in the race toward the Scudetto.

"Both represent important structures,” Conte stressed to 'DAZN' -. Inter won the Scudetto hands down last year, while Atalanta took the Europa League by beating the German champions. We are theì and we are doing a good job. But we have to continue like this, because others are more advanced than us".

The great importance of his Napoli’s victory against Roma remains. Così Conte: "In all respects, the work we are doing è a lot. Especially the attacking phase è the focus of our attention, and from this point of view I am happy with what we did today as we created several important situations. But above all, the self-confidence of individuals is growing, starting with Lukaku".

" For 70-75 minutes I saw a Napoli that I really liked, although we could have been more bad. In the last quarter of an hour Roma created a bit of apprehension for us, but we wanted to win and we succeeded. Moreover, proposing what I think è was also a good show", concluded Conte.