It will be aNaples British’ the one who will show up tomorrow in Empoli, to defend the lead and perhaps get ahead of his pursuers. On Antonio Conte’s board there will be three players from the Premier League who, in order to embrace the Neapolitan project led by the Salento coach, left the most important championship around. It’s about Romelu Lukaku, Scott McTominay And Billy Gilmour: ready-made players, strongly desired by Conte and who arrived in Naples with strong motivations.
Three elements who had a different start to the season. While on the one hand the impact of Lukaku and McTominay was immediately devastating and favored the climb towards first place, on the other hand Gilmour had little time to put his qualities at the service of the team. Conte, however, blindly believes in him and will start him tomorrow to replace a totem like Lobotka, who hadn’t missed a match with Napoli for two and a half years: the last time was 30 April 2022, Napoli-Sassuolo 6-1.
While waiting to understand how Gilmour’s test as Lobotka’s deputy will go, Conte is enjoying this ‘English triple coup’ achieved in the last few days of the transfer window. As he points out La Gazzetta dello SportIn fact, since Lukaku, McT and Gilmour arrived, Napoli have never lost again and have almost made a clear path between the championship and the Italian Cup. In six matches (5 in Serie A) he won five times, drawing only at Juventus. He conceded 2 goals and scored 16.