Four defeats in five league games, three defeats out of three at San Paolo, the European areas of the ranking now far away. The crisis of Napoli continues to worsen and there are two tough matches on the horizon: Tuesday evening Napoli-Lazio (quarter-finals of the Italian cup), Sunday evening Napoli-Juventus.

NO WORDS - Arrived at the microphones over half an hour after the final whistle, Gattuso shows the usual intellectual honesty and takes all the blame for the defeat: "The performance was embarrassing, you have to apologize to the fans and the city. It's difficult explain the involution compared to the first three games of my management. We only did a little bit in the first 20-25 minutes, then we were unwatchable. We played in an elementary way, we tickled the opponents, without competitive fury ". And then announces the decision to return to retreat to prepare for the next two commitments: "It is a decision that the team has taken, we need to look at each other".

PERFECTS UNKNOWN - Head down, downcast, Gattuso used very clear words on the current situation of Napoli: "It seems that we met this morning, we put on the shirt and we went out on the pitch. So we can't continue, we hit the bottom, we have to understand what we are facing. We don't look at the Champions League, we look at the scary classification. We are playing with fire. " The difference between the weekly work and the game performance is Gattuso's main concern: "In training we do good things, but on the field we are flat, we bet one against five, we are predictable in attack. We are a sick team, without soul. It is not enough just to train: this is a team that has to start saying things to itself. I have played for years with people who were disliked by me, but I gave everything on the field ". They did not convince some tactical choices in defense: "I deployed Luperto to the left in order not to overturn the department too much, Di Lorenzo was already coming from some games as a central and was more experienced. New purchases? We try to recover the injured too. Now we have to stay together, listen to the players: tonight we played even worse than the defeat against Parma. We have to work, we have to find ourselves at the team level ".