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Both Napoli and Lazio look dangerous.

Man, this season's gonna be so fierce. Love it!
 

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I'm so furious that tomorrow we cannot watch our boys. Serie A is BACKKKK!

Btw, SMS looks out of gas...
 
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Both teams are playing great, but Napoli plays with that Carlo smooth style.
 

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Good goal from Insigne.
 

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SMS is non existant. Even though I desperately wanted us to improve midfield I'm so glad we did not buy sms. I don't know how he got to be so overrated, but he is. Good player but would have been a total fraud at 100+ million. Not class enough for that kind of dough
 

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SMS is non existant. Even though I desperately wanted us to improve midfield I'm so glad we did not buy sms. I don't know how he got to be so overrated, but he is. Good player but would have been a total fraud at 100+ million. Not class enough for that kind of dough

Its just one game, he had plenty of good ones last season. Still i agree the price tag is way to high.
 

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We can beat both this Napoli and Lazio that we saw today, they aren't miles better than us.
Also Lazio's bench is miles worse than ours.
 
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sms always goes missing in big games, this is not news
 

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I don't think many were expecting that result.

Good for Carlo.

Both looked beatable.

Should be an excellent season.
 

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I think both teams did fairly well, considering this is the first game of the season.

The pace dropped a bit towards the end, but enjoyable game overall.
 

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juve couldnt score a 3rd with motm goalkeeper so they had to ko him before getting the win. just juve things
 

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Sorrentino is always great fun.

Disappointing he got injured. Hope he's alright.
 

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Penaldo exposed??? Calcio resta??? Serie A best league confirmed????
 

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Fuck I hate Juve. Always get it done, teams shit themselves in crunch time against them.
 

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Fuck I hate Juve. Always get it done, teams shit themselves in crunch time against them.

Milan have had several last gasp wins over the years
 

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Penaldo exposed??? Calcio resta??? Serie A best league confirmed????

I know your post is rhetorical but for some reason, it feels like CR7 and Messi might now be able to do what Ibra could.

Just a gut feeling
 

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sms invisible in another big game, shocker.
 

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Lazio are just so weak in closing out games.. just like last season, they lack the killer instinct. Napoli was there for the taking.

To me, both teams looked very beatable. Didn't see any improvement from last season. Carlo of course will gradually improve the team, but Napoli next week should be a competitive, positive prospect for us.
 

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Lazio are just so weak in closing out games.. just like last season, they lack the killer instinct. Napoli was there for the taking.

To me, both teams looked very beatable. Didn't see any improvement from last season. Carlo of course will gradually improve the team, but Napoli next week should be a competitive, positive prospect for us.

Napoli started a bit slow, the first 15 minutes is what it took them to get used to Carlo's formation against a top team.

It will be a hard game next week, but we have a chance against them.
 

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To me, the goals were all Sarri-bol goals. They are still somewhere stuck between Carlo's slower-paced off-the-ball style and Sarri's fast-passing style. There were a ridiculously high number of passes played to forward wide areas where there was no one to receive them - a trademark of Carlo's football where wide players are supposed to do off-the-ball runs to those areas..

I don't see them completely improving in a week. It will take a few weeks.
 
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Napoli is gonna have another great year I think, top 3 locked. ( I was surprised many put them out of top 4). "Ancelotti is bad in the league". yeah but he doesn't relegate you ffs

Lazio are very underwhelming. On paper we have a better starting XI and bench. Don't expect them to challenge for top 4.
 

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He doesn't relegate, but he certainly struggled domestically. He never did as well domestically as he should have, and Napoli lost their dynamo in Jorginho.
 

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And we don’t have any struggles? It will be very hard for Ancelotti or any coach to match Sarri’s results. Doesn’t mean they will do shit. They’re still favourite to finish above us but nothing is impossible.
 

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i will root for Torino and Sassuolo tonight....
but imo our real rival for 4th spot is roma...

ideal scenario is roma loosing points tonight and next turn we fuck them at the full san siro
 

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