Outside Europe. Out of everything. The Napoli season ends a month earlier. And it closes between the protest and the disappointment of the people. The San Paolo whistle, sings choruses against Aurelio De Laurentiis, while Arsenal celebrates with its thousand fans the semi-final just won. There was little to do, the English formation defended itself with order, without worries, leaving little or nothing to Neapolitan attempts. Few, indeed, and no one who has ever seriously worried Cech. Lacazette's goal shortly after the half hour of the first half, canceled the dream, threw the San Paolo into despair, because then in the remaining minutes, Napoli never gave the impression of being able to subvert the result. It ends badly, therefore, the first year of Carlo Ancelotti, he will have to wait for the start of the next season to replay the dolls.
CHAMPIONS STYLE - The European Napoli has had its tactical squaring this year, and Carlo Ancelotti has wanted to propose it again to face the Arsenal. The defense foresees three central defenders and a left external one, in this case, Ghoulam. The scheme is the usual one, the 4-4-2, to which the coach relies by postponing to better times the experiment of the trident behind Arek Milik. Unai Emery, on the other hand, presents the same formation of the first leg with the only exception of Xhaka instead of Ozil. The start of Napoli is fearful, we have to wait until the 17th minute to see the first goal on goal. Callejon Calcio on Cech Koulibaly's cross snapped off guard. He moves well, Lorenzo Insigne: he is on the ball, he keeps well on a technical level and from one of his cuts Milik's goal is born that the referee cancels for an obvious offside of the Polish attacker. The Arsenal stretches out with balance, trying not to discover itself and leaving no room for Neapolitan restarts. Zileinski, at 28 ', finds Milik all alone, in the center of the area, but his header is oversized, the mistake is everything.
ARSENAL AHEAD- The English midfield is ordered, the action passes through Ramsey, while Xhaka sets up from afar, trying to unleash the Lacazette and Aubameyang offensive. And it is this last one that tries to worry Meret (31 '), but the goalkeeper contains his conclusion. Ramsey stops on the Naples remittance action. The midfielder touches his left thigh, he has pain. This is a relapse of the contracture suffered two weeks ago. In its place, Emery inserts Mkhitaryan. Certainly, Arsenal does not give up playing, it puts so much energy into the defensive phase, but in the restart it keeps the back department apprehensive. It was 35 minutes when Maksimovic tried to anticipate Lacazette mowing him from behind. The referee blows his free-kick, Meret sets up the barrier and when the English striker beats, he goes in the opposite direction from the ball that ends up in the net. Frost is falling on the San Paolo, now the company is really difficult, to qualify the Napoli will have to score four.
INSIGNE ANGER - The recapture opens with the prodigy of Meret that rejects the close deviation of Aubameyang on the cross of Lacazette, favored by Allan's mistake in output. Around the quarter of an hour, Ancelotti brings Insigne back to the bench. The substitution with Younes is unexpected, the same attacker is surprised and in abandoning the field he says something to Ancelotti. Lorenzo is angry, he does not sit on the bench, the impression is that the matter has not ended here, also because in going out, the player is covered with whistles.
DE LAURENTIIS IS CONTESTED - Meanwhile, from the stands the protest of the two curves starts, all against Aurelio De Laurentiis who in the stands listens to the insults that rain down on him. The disappointment is so great, while the San Paolo begins to evacuate far ahead of the final whistle.