I don't question Walter Mazzarri's experience, in fact I know very well that he is an excellent coach, my doubt lies in the mentality of the team, will they be able to get out of this unfortunate period and settle into the module proposed by Mazzarri? or was the victory against Atalanta just a lucky coincidence? I want to hope and believe that Napoli with Mazzarri can return to winning ways and fight for a place in the Champions League, and despite this with the 1-1 draw between Juventus and Inter they managed to shorten the distance from first place to 8 points, which are not few but not many either and could also be part of playing for the championship victory
in my opinion Napoli will be able to recover, clearly not this season, which is now obviously disastrous for everyone from every point of view. Next season they will certainly be well energized and happy to want to make the difference that they were unable to make this season. My opinion of course.
the season is now quite compromised but anything can still happen, Napoli would only need to win a direct match to revive the fortunes of their championship, I'll give you an example, currently Napoli are -8 behind leaders Inter but the next match is against them Inter, if they were to win against Inter they would move themselves to -5 from the top and everything can be rewritten. so I'm not convinced to give them up for lost when there are still more than 20 games to go until the end of the championship.
It's true, Napoli seems so strange to me, the way they do things, I don't see them being consistent with their way of playing, but when evaluating teams like Juve, Roma, some like Inter, they are teams that will always give very great results, for that reason I have always said that things can go better, but I think the more things that can be done to improve the better, I don't know if you saw the UCL loss with Real Madrid, but for me the Napoli played very, very well, they just couldn't consolidate their returns well, because they lost 4-2, but in the first half Napoli was almost the winner, because what they showed was very good, I think that Napoli's problem is something that It is very external, that is, they come out playing at a high level, their speed and everything means that any team does not expect it and that can cause a lot of confusion and the goal can come, that was what they did, if so They could only have done that for at least 20 minutes, that's fine, but it only lasted 5 minutes, because at minute 6 they scored the goal.
Seeing this behavior of the team I can intuit that when you try to make a strategy better it is because you can undoubtedly improve, we cannot be under a siege for 6 minutes, at least they must hold one for 10 minutes, tie, then insist until they score another, That's why I'm talking about a range of 20 minutes played at full speed, that's why when we see a soccer team when they make that effort and achieve their goal, they then take cover in defense and play defense and a hard counterattack, that's to stop them. recover all the energy they lost, that is why football teams when they are faced with titans like Madrid must do that, otherwise the titans somehow dominate and score many goals, because they take advantage of the mistake they have to liquidate any game, It's normal, it's what grown-ups do.
Regarding Napoli's performance in recent weeks, it doesn't convince me, they don't let me see the team I saw last season, I don't know what's going on.