SO ARE NAPOLI ONE OF EUROPE’S TOP TEAMS?

THE way Sarri has the Serie A leaders playing — a focus on quick rotation of possession and a tigerish attitude to winning it back — certainly has them in a similar category to City. Sarri tweaked Napoli’s formation after taking over in 2015, dropping Marek Hamsik deeper and pushing up wingers Jose Callejon and Lorenzo Insigne. Remarkably the team costs around £70million — less than Gonzalo Higuain was sold to Juventus for last year. This is widely regarded as Napoli’s best chance to win Serie A since the Diego Maradona-inspired campaign of 1989-90, which saw the Argentine dubbed the King of Naples.