Alexander Good morningdefender of Napoli, spoke on the microphone after the home victory against Lecce Radio Crc: “It’s a great feeling to be first in the standings: we’re still at the beginning, but we have to try to continue like this, to train as best we can and continue to improve. Today wasn’t easy, we knew it. We expected Lecce to finish, trying to score goals on the counterattacks. In my opinion, we turned the ball around well, until we managed to find the goal, even if it came from a dead ball. In terms of play, we also managed to create, we were quite careful on the counterattacks preventative, so we are happy.
One thing that must never be missing is spirit. The way we train every day, the way we are united and arrive at the match is making the difference. The rest can always improve, because we never stop being able to do better. We are working a lot. The coach calmed us down at half-time. The desire to score and take the lead straight away was great. As I was saying, in these matches in which the teams close behind a little, it is obvious that it is more difficult to score. So the coach asked us to calm down and that’s what happened in the second half. We moved the ball well and managed to score.
Penalty? I was close enough, it seemed to me that it was there. Obviously then they will have looked at the VAR and evaluated it themselves, but from what I saw, in my opinion there was a penalty. Di Lorenzo is a point of reference for everyone, both in training and in matches. We all follow him day by day, he helps us a lot. We are happy to have him.
The next few games will be tough, which we will try to prepare as best we can. Now we have Milan, we have a few days and we must try to recover mental and physical energy as soon as possible to try to win the match.
We are happy to win at Maradona and we hope to continue like this.”