The moment the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Bortolucci's heart collapsed.
He never imagined that his ambitious new season would start with a 0-5 defeat.
More importantly, this defeat not only hit his team, but also severely hit his confidence.
Before the game, he looked down on Gao Shen and his football, but it was Gao Shen and his football that completely tore Treviso into pieces.
Juventus lost 0-5, but everyone knew that it was an accident.
It was the single knockout match of the Coppa Italia, and it was the third match within a week. Naples gave its best.
But what about today?
Naples almost played with a broken formation and immediately disabled Treviso.
Defeated!
Completely defeated!
Bortoruzzi and his football were defeated by Gao Shen!
When he saw Gao Shen walking towards the visiting team's coaching bench, Bortoruzzi went up to him, shook hands with Gao Shen politely, congratulated him on his victory, and then turned and walked into the players' tunnel.
I’m totally embarrassed!
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Gao Shen watched Bortorucci walk in with a smile on his face.
Even before the game, he had already seen the arrogant Italian's temper, with dissatisfaction and disdain almost written on his face. Especially after Sacchi's speech, he probably hated Gao Shen to the core.
When it comes to football tactics, Italians are very proud and confident.
But there is no way, Naples won!
The opponent hates you to death, but can't win against you. It's very enjoyable and a sense of accomplishment to see Gao Shen.
He even began to look forward to meeting again next time.
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Beat Juventus 5-0 in the Coppa Italia.
In the first round of Serie B, they defeated Treviso 5-0 again.
Two consecutive Serie A relegated teams were slaughtered by Napoli with five goals at the San Paolo Stadium, which quickly triggered heated discussions throughout Italian football.
Are Gao Shen and his Naples really that powerful?
Compared with Naples' strength, Juventus obviously failed to get out of the predicament.
In the first round of Serie B, the Bianconeri challenged Rimini away from home, and the two teams ended in a draw one to one.
What makes the Bianconeri fans even more dissatisfied is that Juventus had the advantage on the field, but it was not until the 60th minute that Parro scored a goal for the team.
Nine minutes later, Rimini player Cristiano received a second yellow card and was sent off with a red card.
Juventus, who had one more player than their opponents, not only failed to expand their results in the game, but were equalized by their opponents in the 84th minute. In the end, it was a one-to-one draw.
After this battle, Deschamps was once again controversial.
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A week later, in the second round of Serie B, Naples challenged Piacenza away from home.
This team is very strong and has obviously learned lessons from the previous games. It is more of a defensive team to challenge Naples and try to freeze Naples' offense.
But Naples has too many offensive lines and rich methods.
Although the front line was frozen, Rakitic took a long shot in the 25th minute and penetrated Piacenza's goal to open the scoring for Naples.
In the 79th minute of the second half, Hamsik's goal was the icing on the cake for the team.
In the end, Naples defeated Piacenza 2-0 away from home and won two consecutive victories.
Juventus relied on Trezeguet and Del Piero's two goals in the second half to defeat Vicenza 2-1 at home.
A narrow victory barely allowed Deschamps to retain his coaching position.
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Three days later, in the third round of Serie B, Naples challenged Arezzo away from home.
Although most of them are young people and have plenty of physical energy, senior players still need to be rotated appropriately.
After all, there are two-front battles in the Italian Cup and Serie B, and Gao Shen doesn't want to catch a group of main players and use them hard. This is not necessarily a good thing for the players' bodies.
In the end, Napoli relied on Bonucci's header to beat their opponent 1-0 away from home.
Juventus defeated Crotone 3-0 away from home, with Bodinov scoring twice.
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Weekend, fourth round of Serie B.
Juventus defeated Modena 4-0 at home thanks to Trezeguet's brace, Del Piero and Nedved's goals.
The Bianconeri were finally proud and had their first big win of the season, showing the strong strength of the Italian giants.
In contrast, Naples' performance this week has dropped significantly from before, but it is still very stable.
Play against Triestina at home.
Cavani and Gervinho scored two goals in a row to help the team establish an advantage in the first half. In the second half, the team's defense had some problems. In the 85th minute, the opponent seized an opportunity.
Counterattack goal.
This is also Napoli's only goal so far this season.
Gao Shen felt a little disappointed after his clean sheet was broken, but he did not blame the players for this, but instead gave him encouragement and affirmation.
As for young people, they still need to give priority to praise and encouragement. They should be fed more chicken soup and a few more pieces of flatbread, and they will become more active again.
After the four rounds of Serie B, Naples is the only team with four consecutive wins and ranks first in the standings.
Juventus, with its recent three-game winning streak, ranked second with ten points, and Brescia also ranked third with ten points.
This is basically in line with outside speculation before the season.
This season's Serie B is likely to become a duel between Napoli and Juventus.
For these two powerful teams, what they want is not just promotion places, they both want the championship!
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Serie B fifth round.
Naples once again ushered in an outbreak, slaughtering Spezia 4-0 away from home.
Juventus defeated Piacenza 2-0 away from home.
Both teams won again.
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Serie B sixth round.
Naples defeated Rimini 2-0 at home and won six consecutive games.
Juventus defeated Brescia, who ranked third in the league, 2-0 at home, winning five consecutive games and unbeaten in six games.
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Serie B seventh round.
Juventus took the lead and narrowly defeated Treviso 1-0 away from home.
Naples also encountered Vicenza's tenacious sniping early in the away game. Both sides scored a goal in the first ten minutes. Naples' goal came from David Luiz's own goal. This squanderer finally missed it.
After that, for more than an hour, Naples had the advantage, but was never able to score again.
Until the end of the game, Gervinho made a continuous breakthrough with the ball from the left and passed the ball across the penalty area. Cavani made it in one fell swoop and scored the winning goal for Naples.
In the end, Naples narrowly defeated Vicenza 2-1.
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Serie B eighth round.
After his unsatisfactory performance in the last round, Gao Shen suppressed David Luiz and kicked him out of the squad.
Naples played at home and defeated Crotone 3-0, winning their eighth consecutive victory.
Juventus was away from home and defeated Triestina 1-0 thanks to Trezeguet's goal.
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The ninth round of Serie B.
After conceding the first goal in the away game, Napoli reversed Albino Lefe 3-1.
Juventus defeated Frosinone 1-0 at home.
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After nine rounds of Serie B, Naples had no chance of getting into trouble, winning nine games in a row.
In addition to an upset draw in the first round, Juventus has won eight consecutive games and ranks second behind Naples (the nine penalty points have not been deducted).
The nearest to these two powerful teams, Genoa, which ranks third in the standings, only scored 19 points, a full six points behind Juventus and eight points behind Naples.
This has only been nine rounds.
After the past nine rounds of the league and the pre-season Italian Cup, Italian football has gone from being shocked to amazed by the rise of Naples to now slowly accepting it.
Especially Naples had some ups and downs in the middle, which made everyone see that this young team is not perfect.
At least, it has the inevitable shortcomings of all young teams, which is experience and stability.
Napoli is very strong, but sometimes they fail.
Of course, Naples' ups and downs did not bring about defeat, but were reflected in the game performance, which also made people discover that the lower limit of this team's strength is really strong enough.
As the amazing period passed, everyone gradually changed their impression of Naples.
From the original Serie B promoted team, it became the favorite for promotion.
As the impression has been upgraded, the requirements have also naturally increased. Many problems that could have been ignored in the past have now become big problems.
For example, David Luiz started growing his hair long, but his true colors as a prodigal were also exposed.
However, everyone is satisfied that the team can firmly hold down Juventus in the standings and rank as the leader in Serie B.
Especially when popular teams such as Treviso are performing sluggishly, Naples' sudden rise has become the most beautiful scenery in Serie B.
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The day after the ninth round of Serie B, Gao Shen asked all players to work hard to meet the next challenge at the coaching staff meeting and the players' game analysis and summary meeting.
In the tenth round, Naples will welcome Juventus at home.
Three days later, Naples faced Parma at home in the first leg of the Italian Cup round of 16.
The second round is in December, which is still relatively far away for the time being.
But the next two consecutive games will be a big test for Naples.
Juventus, Napoli's mortal enemy this season, just finished the ninth round, and they have already made harsh words in the media, wanting to avenge the 0-5 loss in the Coppa Italia.
Not to mention the battle in Parma.
In the knockout round, the two rounds are no more severe than the single round, and will test the team's overall strength more severely.
To put it simply, a single-round knockout round only requires 90 minutes of good football, but a double-round knockout round requires 180 minutes of good football. You don’t need to think about it to know that the latter is more difficult.
Naples is invincible in Serie B, but in Serie A, especially the top-ranked teams in Serie A, Naples has not yet competed. Gao Shen is also looking forward to it. He wants to know whether Naples has the strength to compete with the strong teams in Serie A?
