Mourinho appeared in Naples to visit a corner of the city that is dedicated to Maradona, who died on November 24, 2020, through portraits, flags and memorabilia, according to the video published by the official account of the Roman club on Twitter.
The Portuguese coach brought a bouquet of flowers to the “10” sanctuary and placed it on the ground as a sign of respect and admiration.
Mourinho He had a good relationship with the captain of the Argentine team. “Diego never called me after a victory, always after a defeat or in difficult moments. He told me: ?Mou, don’t forget that you’re the best? I miss Diego’s calls. He had a big heart,” Mourinho said. when he found out about Diego’s death.
The DT of Rome, escorted by the local police, received the applause of the Neapolitan neighbors, who sang songs dedicated to their eternal idol.
Napoli does not want to lose track of Milan
Napoli will host Rome on Monday forced to win to reach Inter as Milan’s escort on the Serie A date, whose date 33 will be completed with the visit of Hellas Verona to Atalanta.
Rome will visit Napoli at the Diego Maradona stadium just four days after sealing his ticket to the semifinals of the first edition of the Conference League with a 4-0 thrashing at home against Bodo Glimt.
That victory also meant the tenth game in a row without defeats for the “giallorosso” team of Portuguese coach José Mourinho, who is in fifth place in Serie A with 57 points.
With nine more units appears Napoli, which is third in the Italian League only behind the leader Milan (71) and the defending champion, Inter, which has 69 points but has a pending duel with Bologna (38) by date 20.
Just yesterday, Bologna rescued a 1-1 draw at Juventus, fourth with 63 units and which Rome seeks to reach in the fight for a place in the next “Champions League”.
After his arrival in Naples for tomorrow’s game, Mourinho laid a bouquet of flowers in front of a historic mural by Diego Maradona as a tribute to the Argentine star who died on November 25, 2020.
Napoli fans applauded and thanked Mourinho for his tribute to Maradona, whom he had fired on social media before his death at the age of 60 in November 2020.
But the fans of the Partenopeo team will forget this gesture by Mourinho in tomorrow’s game, when Napoli will seek their twenty-first victory in the tournament to continue in the fight for the elusive “Scudetto” since the 1989-90 season, when they won their second title Series A precisely with the Argentine star as a figure.
Napoli also need a win against Roma to bounce back from an unexpected 3-2 loss at home to Fiorentina, sixth on 56 points like Lazio, both also among those chasing Juventus for fourth place in the tournament.
The good news for manager Luciano Spalletti is that he will have the entire squad available with the exception of striker Andrea Petagna and defender Giovanni Di Lorenzo, both injured.
In return, the coach, who plans to line up Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen and Spanish midfielder Fabián Ruiza, has already brought back goalkeeper Alex Meret and Algerian Adam Ounas.
Ruiz, who has a muscular problem, is emerging as a teammate of the Cameroonian André Anguissa, while the Pole Piotr Zielinski and the Slovakian Stanislav Lobotka compete for the other place in the midfield.
Instead, the Colombian David Ospina is confirmed in goal behind the defense made up of Alessandro Zanoli, the Kosovar Amir Rrahmani, the Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly and the Portuguese Mario Rui.
In attack, meanwhile, Osimhen, who has scored 16 goals in the season, will be accompanied by captain Lorenzo Insigne and Mexican Hirving Lozano, who is ahead of Matteo Politano.
Just as Napoli bets on Osimhen, Rome’s coaching staff has English striker Tammy Abraham, author of 24 goals in his first season at “Calcio”, thus equaling Rodolfo Volk’s 90-year record.
Abraham’s most recent celebration was precisely at the opening of the scoring against Bodo Glimt on Thursday the 14th, when Nicoló Zaniolo contributed a triplet and confirmed himself as a figure of the team that will once again have the security of Brazilian defender Rober Ibañez.
Another good news for Rome is that Mourinho is unbeaten against Spalletti, because after 11 clashes with each other, the Portuguese coach’s teams added 7 wins and 4 draws, including 0-0 in the first round.
The program of the thirty-third date of Serie A will be completed with the duel that Atalanta will play at home to Hellas Verona after their elimination in the quarterfinals of the Europa League against Leipzig.
The team from Bergamasco will seek to begin to recover lost ground in the Italian League after falling to eighth place with 51 points, six more than Hellas Verona, who will go to Bergamo to rehabilitate after their 2-0 loss against Inter on date 32, in the one that Atalanta lost 2-1 with Sassuolo.
Source: Ambito
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