{"id":6425,"date":"2024-11-03T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/european-preview-barcelona-aim-to-pull-clear-napoli-backed-for-title\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T22:27:47","slug":"european-preview-barcelona-aim-to-pull-clear-napoli-backed-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/european-preview-barcelona-aim-to-pull-clear-napoli-backed-for-title\/","title":{"rendered":"European preview: Barcelona aim to pull clear &#038; Napoli backed for title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Napoli bid to keep their Serie A title charge going when they take on third-placed Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antonio Conte&#8217;s side are unbeaten in 10 games, winning nine of those, and will be hoping to maintain or extend their four-point lead over Inter Milan on Sunday (11:30 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is what Antonio Conte does in Italy,&#8221; said Italian football expert James Horncastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we go back to matchday one, they lost 3-0 at Hellas Verona. The transfer window was still open, he hadn&#8217;t got some of the players he really wanted, like Scott McTominay &#8211; &#8216;McTomadona&#8217; &#8211; and Billy Gilmour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once McTominay integrated he has been very useful playing off Romelu Lukaku, he has the engine to be in a midfield three but also has the energy to break behind Lukaku.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And they have arguably one of the best dribblers in the world in Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. I think they will win the league. Napoli are looking very good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Atalanta, who have Serie A top scorer Mateo Retegui, have only lost once since August and a win would take them to within three points of the leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second-placed Inter host struggling Venezia at 19:45 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juventus &#8211; who are unbeaten but have drawn six of their 10 games &#8211; visit Udinese on Saturday (17:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c14ln3p2zn1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli bid to keep their Serie A title charge going when they take on third-placed Atalanta. Antonio Conte&#8217;s side are unbeaten in 10 games, winning nine of those, and will be hoping to maintain or extend their four-point lead over Inter Milan on Sunday (11:30 GMT). &#8220;This is what Antonio Conte does in Italy,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6427,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}