Luciano Spalletti is ready to return to Naples as an opponent

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Luciano Spalletti spoke to Mediaset after the 2-0 win at Udinese that earned his Juventus team qualification to the Coppa Italia quarterfinals: “We played a decent game, we did everything well. When you play against teams like Udinese, the danger is always when you lose the ball. Instead, we were balanced, we got ourselves some important situations. But we had some situations that we could have handled better and with more quality: these are situations to go and catch because the real lion puts all his strength even with a mouse. If the penalty episode doesn&#8217t come you have to make another goal, if not at the’last even an episode of can condemn”.

“David and Opendaare two central forwards. The former is very relational with the team and inside the’area he gives his best, while the latter is better at attacking depth and spaces. They compensate for each other and can play together, and we are pleased that they are in good condition. They have shown good things in this period. “Cwhat feelings will you have when you return to Naples? Sit will be an’incandescent emotion. I have a lot of friends there and a lot of children waiting for me, and that is the most important thing. It won”t matter how I will be received, but how I feel about them, which is that of a person who loves them the most”.

“There are very good players and since I arrived I have found great helpfulness. From day to day inside the training sessions I have seen something new and this is the thing that gives good hope for doing a certain type of soccer even against the higher quality teams. Some things we still lack and we have to go for it, but we are on the right track. We have a team of great strength and running, but then they have to manage the games and do this dribbling that takes away the problem on the constant balls and deep runs”.

Closing remarks on Riccardo Neri and Alessio Ferramosca, who died in 2006: “December 15 marks the’anniversary of the disappearance of Neri and Ferramosca, an event that happened after a training session of these boys. Since Friday is the dinner dedicated to this anniversary, which I have always attended, and since I am now the coach of their Juventus team, I was pleased to remember this moment and the victory we dedicate to them and their families”.

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