NAPOLI HITS ROCK BOTTOM: IS IT OVER FOR ALLEGRI?

According to La Gazzetta dello Sport; Italian Serie A side Napoli has made an absolute nightmare of a start to the new season, deeply disappointing their fans. Falling far short of expectations in the league and the European arena, the Italian team experienced a major collapse by leaving the pitch with exactly 5 defeats in the first 9 official matches played. This ineffective performance on the pitch and the consecutive bad results caused a serious crisis to erupt within the club. Looking at the statistics, it clearly emerges how dire this gloomy picture achieved by Napoli is in terms of club history. The Italian representative last saw such a bad statistic in 2001, when they struggled in Serie B and experienced great difficulties. The team being dragged into a similar vortex again after long years caused alarm bells to ring at the highest pitch in the community. The experienced manager Allegri is shown as the number one person responsible for this historical decline. The squad, built with great hopes at the beginning of the season, failing to reflect the expected football on the pitch and the inability to prevent point losses made the Italian coach the number one target of criticism. While the board of directors was looking for a way out of this deep crisis the team is in, the future of the technical committee was laid on the table. According to the details in the Italian press, the Napoli management gave the experienced technical man one last chance to pull the team together. The fate of Allegri, who is at the center of criticism, will be definitively drawn according to the results to be obtained from the tough Bodø/Glimt and Roma matches to be played in the coming days. Possible point losses in these two critical exams will pave the way for his dismissal.

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