Napoli and AS Roma achieved a draw in this match, they showed a tight game and both teams showed quite good buying and selling attacks in this match. In the first half they couldn't score a goal, but in the second half, they were able to score 2 goals each. I think this result is a fair result for both teams, because they also played evenly.
Even though Napli had more opportunities, AS Roma under the guidance of De Rossi was a different AS Roma than before. Napoli tried hard to win this match, but they didn't succeed because AS Roma managed to score an equalizer in the 88th minute.
Napoli this season is not the Napoli of last season, where last season they were very effective when attacking. However, this season they are having a bit of trouble when they want to attack because they fail more often.
Even though it was a draw, this was a pretty good result for AS Roma before they played in the Europa League against Leverkusen.
Draw was what I was expecting; the match should end, and it happened as I predicted. I was aware that Roma was in better form than Napoli, but it was Napoli's home game, so I was expecting extra performances from them, and seriously, they played well, but they were not just lucky to win the game. Napoli created a lot of good chances, but lucky was not on their side to be able to convert those good chances into goals.
If I were to compare Napoli's form this season and last season, honestly, their performances really declined. I was not expecting their performances to be really bad like this. As I was not expecting Napoli not to make the top four this season with how they performed last season, the surprise thing is that they did not key those key players, so I wonder how they lose performances like this.
And that is a very significant decline, because if we look at it from any point of view they don't have any advantages this season. In contrast to last season, which was able to perform very extraordinary, they only experienced 4 defeats, and they only experienced 6 draws, that is a number that is 2 times different from the defeats and draws they achieved this season.
I thought they would be able to maintain their performance last season to be able to defend the Scudetto title, but it turns out they couldn't do that and instead they had to slump like they are now. For a team with the status of defending champion, of course this is not a good result at all. Because as a team with defending champion status, they should be able to show something that confirms that they are the team that won the title last season. And they can't do that, they are an average team and maybe last season they were just lucky.