After September 17th, Napoli-Liverpool 2-0 and show all-round against the European champions, not even the most bitter "enemy" of the Azzurri or the most pessimistic of the fans could have thought of a sinking in the league. Also because at the end of the summer the team of Ancelotti seemed to have well assimilated the method of his coach, which pushes a lot on the turn over. And so on September 22nd in Lecce Napoli wins 4-1 - where even Juve will be braked on par - changing 8 elevenths from the Champions League victory without being affected. However, it does not last long because the following Wednesday the first internal defeat for Cagliari came. And from there the Napoli will not recover because it will beat Brescia and Verona at home, but will fall into an identity and game crisis, culminating in an acute draw: 5 with Torino, Spal, Atalanta, Genoa and Milan, in addition to two other defeats : against Roma at the Olimpico and Sunday against Bologna.

INVOLUTION - The 12 points less in the league explain a lot of things. It is striking that the Napoli strengthened in the summer, on a tried and tested basis, did not take advantage of the work already set by Ancelotti, which seemed to have given him advantages at least on the starting line for Juventus from Sarri and Inter for Conte. While all exalted the absolute international strength of the pair of central Manolas-Koulibalys, the Azzurri have always shown a defensive fragility, also exposed by a non-transcendental Bologna. If we consider the beginning of the collapse, with Cagliari, Napoli only scored 10 goals in 10 rounds, conceding as many. The eleven points collected in this absurd autumn would serve to save itself and nothing more.

DEEP CRISIS - Napoli have not won in the league since October 19 (against Verona) and beyond being the team that hits more stakes in Serie A, there is little to curse the bad luck. There is a group that fails to make it to the levels they compete for and a coach who, by his own admission, still hasn't found the solutions to get out of a deep crisis: the worst of Aurelio De Laurentiis's 15 years of management, who evidently was not wrong when he wanted to send the team to retreat, it was November 5th. Then mutiny and disaster.