Napoli

After Napoli’s latest slip, Serie A's race is between Inter and Milan | Nicky Bandini

25-Apr-2022 12:15:16 | The Guardian

José Mourinho’s Roma could not deal with Inter’s power while Olivier Giroud once again came to Milan’s rescue at Lazio

Amid a breathless finish to the Serie A season, spare a thought for your narrators who don’t know where to begin. In Empoli, where Napoli surrendered their title bid by conceding three times in seven minutes to opponents who had not won a game since December? Or at San Siro, where Internazionale thumped a Roma side led by José Mourinho, the man who led them to the treble, and who arrived on a 12-game unbeaten run in the league?

Perhaps we should start in Rome, where Milan kept the title race alive with a 91st-minute strike from a 21-year-old midfielder who almost signed for Inter? Then again, was the most memorable image of this weekend not the one from Salernitana’s Stadio Arechi, where Davide Nicola threw his shoe in frustration before clutching it on the sideline and menacing his players to improve?