Antonio Conte has no intention of holding something again when he returns to San Siro, as the highest two face off in Serie A on Sunday.
The Italian revived Inter and helped them break Juventus’s nine-year stranglehold on the Scudetto, stopping their run within the 2020-21 season to win the title for the primary time since their treble-winning marketing campaign in 2009-10.
Now at Napoli, a membership that’s seeking to return to the heights of their 2022-23 title win, Conte’s aspect sit prime of Serie A with 25 factors after 11 video games – a degree above Inter forward of their upcoming conflict.
“It’s positively good to return to the place I labored and received. Sure, two joyful years,” Conte instructed reporters.
“It was an exquisite expertise that I carry inside me, like all of the previous ones that I lived to the fullest.”
Napoli’s profitable run in Serie A got here to a grinding halt in opposition to Atalanta final weekend when Conte’s aspect have been crushed 3-0, and so they have a poor current file in opposition to Inter, having received simply one in every of their final 10 Serie A matches in opposition to them.
Napoli want to keep away from struggling two consecutive top-flight losses for the primary time since final December, and Conte says he’s in no temper to drop three factors once more.
“The three factors is all the time essential, it’s inevitable that we face a staff that right now, for the whole lot they’ve proven, is the strongest staff,” Conte added.
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“We’re not going to San Siro to wave the white flag earlier than beginning, however satisfied to play our playing cards. Then we’ll see what occurs. We’re getting ready in a significant method, as we all the time do.
“It will likely be an essential take a look at, we’ll measure ourselves in opposition to the perfect, and it is going to be essential to grasp our progress. Don’t forget that we arrive on the prime of the desk… and the target is to stay on the prime.”
Napoli striker Romelu Lukaku has scored just one purpose in his final 4 video games, however when requested about his type, Conte mentioned he was uninterested in questions concerning the Belgian striker.
“At each blessed convention, there may be all the time the query about Lukaku. It turns into a bit – not annoying – however we’re speaking concerning the staff. Lukaku’s progress will depend on the expansion of the staff,” Conte mentioned.
“However I’m assured as a result of I see them every single day, they wish to work and enhance. I see numerous dedication and I’d not cut back it to a single participant. It’s not truthful to the others.”
