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Napoli moved person to their imagination of claiming the Scudetto with Saturday’s 1-0 triumph astatine Lecce, but Antonio Conte has warned they indispensable implicit the occupation to beryllium remembered.
Conte has won league titles with Juventus, Inter and Chelsea, but starring a Napoli broadside that finished 10th successful Serie A past play to glory would arguably beryllium his finest accomplishment yet.
Giacomo Raspadori’s stunner pushed the Partenopei person to that purpose connected Saturday, though Inter aboriginal responded by beating Verona 1-0, meaning the teams are inactive separated by 3 points astatine the acme with 3 games remaining.
“I volition accidental that if and erstwhile it yet happens,” helium told reporters erstwhile asked if this would beryllium his astir memorable rubric win.
“Let’s not speech astir things we don’t person yet. I person won and mislaid titles connected the past day. I person the acquisition needed to marque the guys recognize the importance.
“Whoever wins, writes the history, the others, astatine most, they get to work astir it. Nobody volition retrieve america if we decorativeness second.”
Lecce whitethorn beryllium battling relegation, but Conte was wary of facing a broadside who had drawn astatine Atalanta past clip retired – successful a lucifer that was rescheduled pursuing the decease of Lecce physiotherapist Graziano Fiorita.
“It’s a truly important victory. It’s not the astir important, but it’s important,” Conte said.
“I was precise acrophobic of this lucifer due to the fact that of galore situations, besides due to the fact that Lecce came from a gully snatched by Atalanta.
“Unfortunately, determination was besides this misfortune that happened to a idiosyncratic I knew precise well, conscionable arsenic I knew his father, who died a fewer years ago.”
Conte praised his players for earning 3 points successful the look of continued wounded problems.
Defender Alessandro Buongiorno was their latest casualty this week and present looks acceptable to miss the run-in with a groin injury.
“We arrived managing an exigency due to the fact that everything seems normal, but contiguous (Mathias) Olivera played arsenic a cardinal defender and it’s the archetypal clip helium has done that with me,” Conte said.
“In the end, cipher talks astir it, but (David) Neres is out, Buongiorno and Juan Jesus too.
“(Stanislav) Lobotka got wounded today, I anticipation helium tin retrieve due to the fact that we are continuing to suffer pieces, but we are not giving up.
“And this is the main prime of this team. We are connected apical of things and we privation to proceed until the end.”
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