Quote from: topbitcoin on Today at 04:51:51 AM

Quote from: lalabotax on December 20, 2023, 09:15:44 PM

Quote from: skarais on December 20, 2023, 08:45:24 PM

It doesn't make sense for Napoli to deliberately lose a competition they still might win, to me it's just an absurd assumption. Napoli have experienced a very significant drop in form this season after winning the Scudetto last season, so they need to take advantage of every competition to win it instead of letting other teams beat them easily.

Yes, this is a realistic thing. It will be very difficult for Napoli to reach the top of Serie A this season and defend the title they won last season. Not only is their condition quite poor, but the distance between points is far away and the strength of the opposing team is actually getting better this season. The competition is very tough this season. And what's more, at the moment, I'm sure Mazzarri's focus is on improving the performance of his squad and trying not to fall into an even worse position. Because after all, Mazzarri also has quite a tough challenge here. At least if Napoli can still enter the UCL again next season, this will be enough for now.

With the current situation, it is very difficult for Napoli to maintain their situation as the current defending champions.
Napoli is currently still very difficult to maintain its current consistency and performance even though there have been several improvements including the change of coach that has occurred but indeed this is still a fairness when talking about the Scudetto in Serie A.
Until now since the last few seasons the club that won Serie A has never been able to go back to back to get the Scudetto after prime Juventus until the 2020 season until now no one has been able to last for several seasons for the Scudetto including Inter, Milan and Napoli who took turns every season in the last 3 seasons.

Napoli chances are now only possible to be in the top 4 and must try to appear there because it would be very bad if they failed to qualify for the Champions League next season after previously winning very convincingly.

Defending the title is not easy, even clubs from other domestic leagues also feel the same way, such as Manchester City, which is not completely consistent, Bayern Munich, which has tough competitors such as Leverkusen, which does not slip up easily and also Barcelona, which is quite far behind Real Madrid and Girona. This can be concluded that defending the title is not as easy as turning the palm of your hand, especially since the Serie A League competition since Juventus did not win the Scudetto, every season they always change clubs, by looking at Napoli's current performance it seems that Napoli will no longer win the title like last season but they can fight in the top 4 so that next season we will still be competing in the Champions League.

Yes, I hope so being in the top 4 isn't bad because if they catch up with Inter it seems very unlikely that Inter won't experience a decline especially since their distance is already too far namely 14 points. Even though there are still a lot of games remaining but catching up to that many seems impossible for Napoli.