For Napoli the season started off great. Luciano Spalletti’s team did not lose points in eight rounds in a row, which was the best indicator among all the representatives of the top 5 European championships. The first failure happened in the ninth round, where the Neapolitans scored a goalless draw with Roma, but at the same time they took the maximum in the next two matches with Bologna (3:0) and Salernitana (1:0). In the last rounds “Napoli” looked inconspicuous. In the home match with “Verona” (1:1) in the 12th round, the Neapolitans were forced to recoup and in the end were content with only one point. In the last round, the “parthenopeans” lost 2:3 to “Inter”, but managed to maintain the lead. “Milan” is lagging behind only due to additional indicators, the “Nerazzurri” approached a distance of four points. This week Napoli lost 1:2 to Spartak in the Europa League, thus extending the streak without wins to three matches.
If last season Manchester United fought for the first place and even took the lead for some time, then the start of the new season is not happy with the results. The team was eliminated from the League Cup, losing at the first stage to West Ham (0:1). The situation is better for the Mancunians in the Champions League, where the red devils chalked up three wins and a draw, which brought an early ticket to the playoffs. By the way, last Tuesday Manchester United took revenge on Villarreal for their defeat in the Europa League final last year. In the English championship, the guests have suffered four defeats in the last five rounds, where the last fiasco in the game was with Watford (1:4) being the last straw for the management, which dismissed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Before this fight United had five victories and two world victories, which corresponds to 17 points and the eighth position in the standings. It should be noted the terrible performance of the team in the defensive line, which conceded almost two goals per game. Varane, Greenwood, Maguire, Pogba, Cavani, Fred and Shaw, who has a head injury, will not be able to play today.
