LISBONA (PORTOGALLO) (ITALPRESS) – “We take a healthy team at a very hot stage. We come from good performance, with good energies demonstrated in the field. I tried to make the players recover, tomorrow it will take a beautiful intense, tough race, with so much energy, as we are doing lately.” Antonio Conte wants to review the “his” Naples tomorrow in Lisbon against Benfica in the sixth day of the League Phase of Champions. The Neapolitans have lost the last two trips to Europe (“but with the City we stayed in ten after 10 minutes, with the Psv it was a bad defeat”) but come from 5 victories in a row, the last of which surclassando la Juve.
“It was a game played at very intense rhythms – says Conte a Sky Sport – We have been working on this concept for a while, trying to bring intense rhythms, to press, running forward is better defended. Tomorrow we will have to want not to leave a centimeter in the field, to fight for that centimeter, it is a game to face with courage and unfairness to leave the field without recriminations”.
Happy to find Mourinho as an opponent (“it is a winner, it will be a pleasure to meet him and greet him”), Count recovers McTominay: “It’s a time when players are demonstrating great sense of responsibility and if there’s any small problem you have to overcome it all together. We would have difficulty replacing certain players, especially in the middle of the field, but the boys have given full availability, those of the last game there are all”.
David Neres: “It is very important for us to try to bring home the three points, we know what we have to do and that we have to play a great match. I always want to give my best for the team, our goal is always to win, but I know it’s not easy to do it in every race. It is not important that I sign but only that I win the team”.
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