CASTEL VOLTURNO (ITALPRESS) – Going their own way. Inter’s defeat in Florence Thursday left Napoli alone in first place with no asterisks, and with the Nerazzurri back on the pitch Monday, Di Lorenzo and co. have a chance to go to bed Sunday night on +6, Udinese permitting. “I will tell the boys to look at us and not at others,” Antonio Conte makes clear, “We know we have a difficult game tomorrow. You have to stay calm, this is a team that travels close to the ground. There is not this risk that anyone can get their heads up despite everything around us. That sometimes is misleading. We have to see what our path is. It’s a journey that started in July, I don’t know at the end of the year where this journey will take us. But, I say, let’s enjoy this journey.” As for Buongiorno and the new Billing and Okafor, the former “has improved in an important way. But right now Jesus is at a higher level. Ale will come to the bench. Billing is a serious guy who is now getting into the methodology. For the first time I saw him with Giugliano. Physically he is fine, he is entering into our idea of soccer, he can give us a hand. Okafor is not in the best physical condition, he also started to work in an important way. He has made additions, he has very limited minutes.” “What do I fear about Udinese? Nothing, we have respect. Fearing is not part of our vocabulary. They are a physical, structured team, on the restart they can bother us. They are all over six feet. In all matches you have to have great respect, you have to sweat in every match until the end.” Inevitable then is the talk of the market, and Conte is reminded of the phrase about the hundred-euro restaurant uttered in his Juve days. “The joke was true. But when you can’t at a historical moment spend what others can spend, I don’t understand why you have to embroider on that joke and then be pointed at as a person who asks. I find the question obnoxious. Let’s remove this quote, it is completely gratuitous. What do I think about this team? I have to do what I have done in the past with all clubs. I have to take it to grow, as the past is there and it is clear. Everywhere I have gone the club has grown. As the All Blacks say, ‘leave the jersey you found better than when you arrived.’ Soccer evolves, what was done before has to be revised. We study and revise. I am interested in thinking how to help grow. Apart from the players, we need a sports center that becomes our home, that becomes home Naples, to have a youth sector that is not there today instead of thinking about spending 50-60 million for that player. I am here to support the De Laurentiis family, I am here to give my vision to the club. I am not angry about who has not arrived. The goal is to try with what we have to make a difference. Let’s not ruin what we have painstakingly built. Nothing is owed here if you think about where we started from. I have to help the club. If the club listens to me on facilities and the youth sector? I more than say that I cannot do. I from day one tried to understand where I was, settle in all situations and find the right openings, the right directions to try to improve.” – photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
