It was ‘Everyone Against Everyone’,as Gazzetta had billed it, but after a Juve shock and Mauro Icardi’s decisive hat-trick, and Napoli remained out in frontSooner or later,the wheels had to approach off. Napoli set an impossible pace through the first seven games of this Serie A season: taking maximum points while scoring at least three against every opponent.
That came to an close on Saturday, as they ran into a Roma side who had conceded only four in total: second-fewest in the division. A team who finished runners-up to Juventus last season, and whose manager,Eusebio Di Francesco, riffed during his pre-game press conference on the faded American sporting maxim (common saying expressing a principle of conduct) that defence wins championships.
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Source: guardian.co.uk