Champions: Allegri, 'saddened but I don't blame the boys for anything'

There were matches in which I could get angry, today we played a good match for 70 minutes. Then we took some runs in the middle of the pitch and the goal came from our own clearance. I'm definitely disappointed, saddened, because it's a bad time. But I have nothing to reproach the boys for tonight for the dedication and desire they put into it.

Massimiliano Allegri is dark-faced, but he tries to defend his Napoli team which leaves with bones broken by Do Drago after the 4-1 defeat by Porto in the Champions League.

"The certainty is that the team did well from a physical and technical point of view, the performance was certainly better than Sunday's" says the coach to Prime Video. "We conceded a goal that could have been avoided" says Allegri referring primarily to the 2-1, but then also to the 1-0 and 3-1 goals, which arrived as a photocopy of corner kick developments. "We have to go and analyze the inactive balls because on that we have suffered, they are details that make the difference" explains the coach who in the dark period of the Azzurri excludes for the moment the possibility of going into retreat before the match on Sunday morning at Maradona against the leaders Lazio.

"We need to prepare for this very important match for the championship. Then after the break we will recover some injured players.

There is work to be done, with great seriousness as the boys are doing. These moments exist in football and must be faced with a great desire for revenge."