Italian Serie A side Napoli missed the chance to go top of Serie A table as they were held to a goalless draw by struggling Venezia. The 2023 champions had 15 shots on goal but were frustrated by the excellent performance from home team goalkeeper Ionut Radu.
Ionut Radu made seven saves and those saves earned his second-bottom side a valuable point. Venezia also had a chance to steal a winner late in added time, but were unable to cap off a sweeping counter-attack with a goal.
Napoli have drawn five of their last seven league games, which is not nice. Speaking about this, the head coach Antonio Conte said: “I am satisfied with the performance, then we wanted to win it. The positive aspect is that we created a lot, the negative is that we didn’t convert them.”
He also said: “We had to be more incisive, the one who scores goals wins. There are nine games to go, we’ll try to be a nuisance until the end, fighting tooth and nail.”
Napoli will be hosting AC Milan after the international break and Antonio Conte is not happy as he said the players will be exhausted after the break. He said: “We only have half a team left.” The former Chelsea and Tottenham boss Conte has won Serie A as a manager with Inter and Juventus.
