At the first big match of the new season Napoli has been eliminated from the Champions League. This was due, according to the newspapers in a “careless defensive line,” “a harmless launch from the sidelines, Albiol has not understood with Rafael, the two have made surprise by Aduriz who burned them on time and he easily slipped the door was unguarded “,” the defense gives the score.” Regardless of the technical value of individual players and the team as a whole, these comments highlight the lack of psychological value of Napoli. Benitez has not build a fighting and determined team. The attentional errors did by Napoli have been made regardless of the technical value of the single player and I am convinced that aggression is an indispensable and trainable team quality if you want to compete at a high level in Europe. Little attention is given to the search for players who possess this mental dimension in favor of the search for even the most technically gifted players in the field but that will melt like snow at the sun. This parameter is too often forgotten and so, while in Europe the teams run and fight, we continue to complain.
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Roma is playing a very positive championship. In fact, this year it has become a competitive team, showing how to win the most games with minimal losses. It’s on the right track to achieve a winning mentality, which means getting into the pitch with the confidence to cope successfully face any team. Compared to what it has been shown up to now, Roma has not yet reached this milestone, I testify, in my opinion, who has suffered two defeats in the two most important games he played. The match against Juventus in the league, which would allow her to continue to exert strong pressure on Juve same and the one against Napoli in the Italian Cup. In both lost the confrontation with the opponent in a clear way. The next step will be to maintain the same strong conviction even in the big games, which determine the difference between a good season and a great one.
Yesterday I wondered who between Juventus and Napoli would have shown the will to win from the start of the game and Juve did it from the first moment. It would be useful to understand why this state of mind it has been demonstrated by Napoli only during the second time it has provided, as we say, “a proof of pride.” In my opinion an experienced coach like Benitez should have parameters to determine if before an important game his team is in the best emotional state to face an opponent that you know the game system and as well you know the fighting spirit that, his coach, Conte is able to convey to his players. With this awareness, you go in knowing what it’s very likely to happen the field and that really did take place. Of course the players are not robots that perform the Benitez’s order, however, a team that wants to win cannot enter the pitch with that attitude. So I think it is important for Napoli to understand how the attitude of the players has been so dismissive, you may be inferior in terms of quality of play, but not in relation to the will to face to the best of your abilities the opponents. The only one who has shown a positive approach was Reina, the Napoli goalkeeper, who has played his role with determination. Napoli needs to improve its ability to go in the field with the emotional condition allowing to play a game with determination, otherwise the class of individual players and the team will remain locked in a drawer where you’ve lost the key.
Juventus and Napoli face off tonight, an important game not only for the 3 points that approach the Roma who wins, but also for the positive effect that this result will have on the team self-esteem. With different words, Mazzarri and Conte will explain to the players what it must happen in the pitch and what they want to avoid that happening. We’ll see who of the two will be able to make happen what that they have planned in these days. Will they go into the field with the same will to win? The match will be beautiful if we will see intensity, speed, fighting spirit and ideas.
The match of tonight is Roma-Napoli, the first against second in the Italian championship, and we expect a very good match between two teams who take few goals and that mark with ease. The two coaches are individuals who are not wasted in controversy between them and they are teaching players to think about one match at a time without fitted to the head of their achievements in the league. Roma have to fear of a team that has scored 10 goals so far only in the first half of the matches, which although often do not decide the game, of course, give a practical and emotional advantage . A mistake that teams must avoid is to think about what it will happen if they win, they must not bring his head to the future, especially those who will score first they have to continue to maintain the same kind of concentration had up to that time. For Napoli it will be more useful to have in the eyes the victory with Borussia and certainly not one with Arsenal. It ‘s always best to remember the victories rather than dwell too much on the flaws. What it can stop the game of the two teams is the fear of losing, not being used to playing high-level matches like this one. The role of the coaches i , in relation to this aspect, absolutely decisive to transmit confidence to the players as a team. The confidence with which they will start the match is dependent on them and on how the most significant players in each team will effectively interpreting their role. Have fun.
Be aware the team was going to enter the field with the wrong attitude; this is missed to Napoli against Arsenal. Hamsik summarizes the thinking of the team: “In matches like this one you cannot give 15′.” Then it becomes difficult to reassemble. They have been devastating, but we started very badly.” Right, but what they did in locker room to be in the mental condition necessary to be immediately competitive. Many times teams think to have the right attitude, but it’s not true and they do almost nothing to train themselves to recognize if their pregame mood is useful to play well or it can be an obstacle. Think to be ready is not the same to feel ready, if you do not understand this difference, you cannot improve and you have to wait to play the first 5 minutes of the game to find out. There are techniques to get to know/put yourself in the best pregame condition, I guess Napoli did not know it.
The Italian football championship this year is so far the most interesting of these years, because it brings out new situations with which the teams have to face beyond their technical level:
Juve must demonstrate that it continues to have the will to win and the Conte’s dramatization related to Pirlo, not just any one, who did not go to the bench after replacing him but in the locker room it’s a sign of how the coach considers decisive to share what happens in the field from the bench to uphold the players’ determination.
Napoli have a match with it seems easy against Sassuolo but it should not think to have already won the game, this is certainly one of the games in which it can be measured the team willingness to win the championship.
Roma was often a team that at the first positive results thought to be already at an end the championship, it must show patience, forget about winning matches and stay focused only to play the next game.
Milan has many problems including injuries and mental weaknesses of Balotelli. Of course, as everyone says Mario is at a crossroads, scrambling like Cassano or become the symbol of Italian football talent, but who helps him? Not just the good will of the player or tell him to change because that happens, he needs someone to lead him to become an adult.
Inter started well also in the last season but it continued bad, it will change this year? Mazzarri looks more confident and convinced Stramaccioni and this is important.
Roma and Napoli have an internal enemy that they must beat, this is the euphoria to be since a long time alone at the top and have won their first four matches, the last of which was particularly rich in meaning . For Roma it was the derby against Lazio, which is perhaps the most important match to play in the season and often in this city has the value of an entire season. Napoli has not won since the days of Maradona with AC Milan at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium, the Scala of football. Therefore, these two wins have certainly boosted the confidence of these teams in their capabilities. At this point it could be possible fall into the trap of euphoria, where everything seems to be positive and the team starts to play with lower concentration, especially the matches perceived as easier. If this happens it would be a serious error, that the two coaches should avoid. Games with teams that do not aspire to the top of the ranking should be addressed to the maximum of the commitment, because if the teams lose these points they cannot be recovered. They will then direct matches with the other best teams that will determine who will win the championship, but if they have lost points, any successes in direct confrontation does not allow to outdistance the other teams. Therefore, the mentally toughest games are those that appear more obvious. In this regard it’s necessary that the teams should remember that in football the goal is a rare event and that sometimes just a shot to do a goal, while other times 10 shots are not enough.
From “tiki-taka” of Barcelona, to the suffocating aggression of Juventus, to “without haste but without a break” of Napoli. Each team has its own philosophy based on the ideas of the coach. At the basis of any form of play there is an idea of football and I think that Benitez has a really good idea. I’is based giving responsibility to the players, which are left free for a day after winning the match against Borussia, even if the next game is against Milan; which focuses on training with the ball to foster a positive climate in training and that it does not upset the players with a physical training too intense. It could say that we are just beginning the journey to say so well of the Benitez’s method. We forget, in this case, that a successful start into on two fronts, league and champions league, is very difficult and it have succeeded it’s a significant result just to confirm the validity of this Napoli new system.
The sentences we use always have a meaning, even more have those said by a coach at the end of a game. The last time Napoli did, in the championship, 3 consecutive draws and 2 defeats in the international matches and Mazzarri, its coach said. “Every things run wrong, but if we have two penalties it would be different. I’m sure that the victories will back.” In psychology we define this approach as a pessimist and it is shown that there is a negative relationship between pessimism and success.
In fact, say “There goes all wrong” is a global assessment that says nothing about how the team played and attribute to the case how are things during the match. Giving importance to the penalties denied, it means taking responsibility away from the players because the victory did not come as a result of referee’s decisions.
The winning attitude instead puts on show a different way to explain the performance, so the question is: “What/when did we do wrong in that match” and “What should we do differently next game.” In addition, when the latest results are 3 draws and 2 defeats, it is not unlucky and much to do to regain winning attitude that it has often characterized Napoli.
