Giovanni Mannasporting director of Napoli, spoke to the microphones of DAZN a few minutes before the match against Atalanta: “We are happy, we are coming from an extremely positive moment which has given us awareness. Today we face a great team, we can say that we are faced with two of the greatest coaches in Italian football and it will be a It’s a pleasure to watch it. We have to be calm, regardless of what the result will be.
Where are you at with the renewal of Kvaratskhelia?
“We are talking to Kvicha and his entourage, we already made an offer in July. We are also talking about it now, we are not going to prolong the situation for long because we want to stay focused on the championship and that the player is too. We want to reward him, we expect an evolution in the short term, otherwise we will wait for the end of the season. We still have two years left on the contract and we will make our assessments.”
Did you expect this impact from McTominay?
“Scott is an important player, he comes from Manchester United and we certainly don’t discover it. He is intelligent, has physical strength and knows how to cover the pitch. He quickly entered Italian football, we are happy with him as with the other players who arrived I think he can do even better, he shouldn’t feel any kind of pressure but continue to work as he is doing.”
The official lineups of Napoli-Atalanta
NAPLES (4-3-3): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Buongiorno, Olivera; Anguissa, Gilmour, McTominay; Politano, Lukaku, Kvaratskhelia. Available: Caprile, Contini, Juan Jesus, Neres, Marin, Simeone, Zerbin, Ngonge, Mazzocchi, Spinazzola, Raspadori. Trainer: Antonio Conte
ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Carnesecchi; Djimsiti, Hien, Kolasinac; Zappacosta, De Roon, Ederson, Ruggeri; Pasalic; De Ketelaere, Lookman. Available: Rui Patricio, Rossi, Toloi, Kossounou, Godfrey, Sulemana, Cuadrado, Zaniolo, Bellanova, Samardzic, Palestra, Retegui, Brescianini. Trainer: Gian Piero Gasperini