Good Samp and good defense: Napoli held to a 0-0 draw

Someone
would probably say: "it’s because of the San Paolo pitch’s
conditions", "sometimes pressure plays nasty tricks" or "they’ve just played Europa League game, so they were tired".
We are used to it and we know that only few people will underline
Sampdoria’s merits: we have been able to stop for a day Napoli’s
dreams of winning the Championship turning them into whistles.

Determined.
Nevertheless, the blucerchiati
did it, fighting, controlling the match and playing with courage and
awareness. A great performance, both in defense (in the second-leg we have only let in two goals and we have the best defense) and
in attack. Determined, careful and reactive, Gastaldello & co.
played as a real team does and brought home a fundamental point,
earned against a top-rank contender.

Analysis.
«We did a great performance – underlines the vice mister Fedele Limone,
who replaced the disqualified Delio Rossi. We were well organized, we
allowed almost nothing to our contenders and we tried to hurt Napoli,
creating some good goal occasions. We are satisfied with the result
because we wanted to give continuity to the last scores: we did it
against a great team, whose strength and quality are only second to
Juventus».