Yeah after winning it Turin, then next game to get a player sent off in the first few minutes against Fiorentina and got down to a tame 3-0 defeat is a pure bottle job.
Spursesque.
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Not really. Spurs haven’t been in a position like that with a league title in their grasp with four games to go since the early 1960’s. Napoli had all the momentum after winning at Juventus. Take care of business against Fiorentina and there’s only one point in it with three games to go and Juventus still have to travel to face the side in 3rd place in the league. Napoli completely filled the togs immediately once opportunity presented itself.
They were 5 points behind Chelsea last season when they shat it against West Ham with 3 games to go.
They bottled it against Chelsea the year before that after being 2-0 up to hand little Leicester City the title with two games to go.
Spurs played West Ham in the 4th last game of last season and not the 3rd last as you’ve incorrectly stated. Of Chelsea’s last four games, three were at home, two against sides who were relegated Middlebrough and Sunderland and the other against Watford who had fired their manager the week of the Chelsea game. The one away game, Chelsea’s title clinching game was at the Hawthorns against a West Bromwich Albion side who picked up 1 point from their last 8 games of the season. Spurs won 12 of their last 13 games of the season. If Spurs had won at West Ham for a perfect 13 out of 13, Spurs would still have finished a distant second to Chelsea. The league was long lost for Spurs before they ever went to West Ham.
In 2015/16 when Spurs drew at Stamford Bridge, it was Spurs third last game of the season and Spurs were a distant 8 points behind Leicester going into that game with prospects of winning the league already all but gone regardless of the outcome at Stamford Bridge.
What happened to a Napoli side bang in title contention at Fiorentina last week was on a different scale to what happened to Spurs in 2015/16 at Stamford Bridge and 2016/17 at West Ham when they were distant if notional closest chasers.
It’s not.
Spurs bottled it in title races against sides who finished 15th and 10th in the previous seasons.
Why don’t you apply your standards to Napoli and Roma? You’re a hypocrite. Excuse after excuse to explain away the failings of Napoli and Roma. Spurs posted their record points total of 86 last season. Strange for someone who claims to be so big on consistency that you didn’t highlight that Spurs record points haul of 86 wasn’t enough and they were a distant 7 points behind a Chelsea side who won a record breaking 30 out of 38 games. You’re a hypocrite.
Chelsea came from 10th position the season before to win a league title.
Juve are on the cusp of 7 titles in a row.
Where Chelsea finished in 2015/16 is of no relevance to the fact that applying your criteria Napoli bottled it in Florence last week. Strange you won’t call out the Napoli bottling job for what it was. How many trophies has Napoli coach Sarri won in his managerial career?
I see another bottle job from Napoli today. Led twice at home to Torino but pegged back twice for 2-2.
Spursesque
Cracking game in the Champions League qualifier between Lazio and Inter. Lazio 2-1 up for most of it while only needing a point to clinch it and now Inter 2-3 up and Lazio a man down with about 5 minutes left
Mental alright. I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt