Serie A: “We must not be too hard on the players”, pleads Garcia, “also responsible for this defeat”

For the second time this season, Naples lost at home, 3-1 against Fiorentina, on Sunday during the 8th day, a heavy setback for which the coach of the reigning Italian champion, Rudi Garcia, assumes responsibility. responsibility. “We must not be too hard on the players, I am also responsible for this defeat,” declared Garcia, speaking to the DAZN platform. “We lost a great opportunity to stay in the top 4 and solidify 3rd place, we must regain quickly, but as long as we cannot string together three victories, we cannot aim high,” underlined the technician French.

Garcia regretted “the lack of aggressiveness” and “the too many defensive and offensive errors” of his team which went from 3rd to 5th place in the Serie A standings (14 points), seven lengths behind the leader, AC Milan. Over the last five matches, including the Champions League match against Real Madrid, lost 3-2 on Tuesday, Napoli has a record of two wins, two defeats and a draw.

According to the Italian press, last month, the president and owner of the club Aurelio De Laurentiis gave these five matches to Garcia, who arrived in July, to prove himself. Present at the Diego-Armando-Maradona stadium, “ADL” made no comments after the match nor posted a message on X (formerly Twitter) as he sometimes does from the final whistle. Napoli captain Giovanni di Lorenzo admitted that his team had delivered “a bad match”: “It’s a heavy defeat at home, we have to do better and more. This defeat saddens us, going into the international break with a defeat is not good,” noted the Italian international.