Player Ratings: Juventus 3-0 Napoli – Locatelli commands midfield as David scores again
Manuel Locatelli is Football Italia’s MOTM for Juventus’ 3-0 win over Napoli.
Juventus 3-0 Napoli Player ratings
Juventus: Di Gregorio 6; Kalulu 6, Bremer 6.5, Kelly 6.5, Cambiaso 5.5 (60′ Kostic 7); Locatelli 7.5 (87′ Koopmeiners N/A), Thuram 7; Conceicao 5.5 (60′ Cabal 6), McKennie 6.5, Yildiz 7 (88′ Gatti N/A); David 7 (76′ Miretti 7). Coach: Spalletti 8.
Best Juventus Player: Locatelli 7.5 – Another all-round performance from the Juventus captain, who received another standing ovation when he was subbed off in the dying minutes. One assist for David’s opener, 93% passing accuracy in the opposition half, six duels won and four recoveries.
Lowest Juventus rating: Cambiaso 5.5 – Often messy with the ball at his feet. The movements were good, but he was sloppy when he had possession. He was booed by his own fans when he was subbed off.
Juventus coach: Spalletti 8 – Less than two months ago, he lost his first game as the Juventus coach in Naples. Fast forward to today, and he’s turned Bianconeri completely upside down. The Old Lady dominated and didn’t concede much to the defending champions, moving just one point below them in the table.
Napoli: Meret 5.5; Di Lorenzo 5, Buongiorno 5.5, Juan Jesus 5; Gutierrez 5.5 (73′ Beukema 5), Lobotka 6, McTominay 5.5, Spinazzola 5; Vergara 5.5 (79′ Lukaku N/A), Elmas 5.5 (70′ Giovane 5); Hojlund 5. Coach: Conte.5.5.
Best Napoli player: Lobotka 6 – The rest of the team just didn’t work. The Slovakia international put together 91 accurate passes from 95, but his teammates didn’t make good use of the ball.
Lowest Napoli ratings: Di Lorenzo, Juan Jesus, Spinazzola and Hojlund 5 – The Napoli defence collapsed, and only Buongiorno was partially up to the task, making a goal-line clearance shortly after Juventus’ opening goal. Hojlund could only complain about a potential penalty in the first half, while Spinazzola was too soft on David when the Canadian netted the opening goal.
Napoli coach Conte: 5.5 – Honestly, there wasn’t much he could do in such circumstances, ten players out, including wingers David Neres and Politano and centre-back Amir Rrahmani, probably the best Napoli defender so far this season. The Partenopei are exhausted, Conte can’t rotate, and tonight they didn’t have enough energy to react as they did in San Siro against Inter just a few weeks ago.