napoli have always been a tempestuous club beside one there two scudetti in a maradona inspired fever dream but their talisman was banned for a positive cocaine test in NUMBER_TOKEN having delivered the team's second series our title and would never play for them again after the side bopped between serie a and b before going bankrupt in NUMBER_TOKEN and being rescued by italian film producer aurelio dilaurentis gennaro gattuso added a sixth copper italia win in NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN but napoli have failed to deliver in the last six years despite strong serie air campaigns falling short of the title with back-to-back second place finishes under maurizio sarri and carlo ancelotti and with a further runners-up finish under sarri in NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN indeed it feels like napoli's recent history has been about how to deal with sarri's legacy napoli played some of the most elegant football scene in europe under him sarri ball relied on huge amounts of possession quick short pass and move sequences and a constant high press the midfield three of georginio allen and marek hamschick drove the side while griz mertens and insignia scored the bulk of the goals but sarri ball was intense physically and mentally demanding and sarri hardy rotated his squad that meant that napoli would play brilliantly but then fall off in the second half of the season creating fewer chances and allowing more carlo ancelotti and gennaro gattuso both sought to harness aspects of sarri's press and possess style while integrating new signings and making greater use of napoli's whole squad ancelotti also brought greater verticality and an increased use of width and switch passes creating a kind of NUMBER_TOKEN shape in build-up gatuso also introduced a greater focus on pressing out wide and a variable defensive line which would fall back to quite a deep block when napoli were attacked centrally but then rapidly pushed back up the pitch to compress space spelletti's reputation as a coach was built on early promotion successes with empower over achievement with udinese and the creation of roma's exciting strikeless team built on the talents of francesco totti twice a copper italia winner and serie air coach of the year in rome spalletti also has two russian premier league titles to his name with zenitz and petersburg spelletti's system is a NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN and integrates aspects of his three predecessors to great effect napoli's possession-based game is reminiscent of sarri's desire to hog the ball and the team currently average the greatest percentage possession in the league and complete the most passes with the greatest percentage success rate they keep the ball on the ground where possible and use a series of short passes while building up from the back as ancelotti's team did in a kind of NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN but with a lot of depth between the lines fabian ruiz has been recast as the team's georginio patrolling in front of the back line and linking play capable of keeping the ball moving seamlessly as napoli
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