Soccer Football - Champions League - Group A - Napoli v Rangers - Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Naples, Italy - October 26, 2022 Napoli's Giovanni Simeone scores their second goal REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Legendary Italian newspaper Gazzetto del Sport has delivered some brutal verdicts on Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s Champions League flops.
Napoli breezed through last night’s match with a shadow side that slipped back into second gear after scoring twice in the opening 15 minutes.
After that start van Bronckhorst happily accepted a 3-0 defeat, claiming that his side had shown character during the second half.
No-one else was kidded by that claim with Ben Davies and Leon King’s performances slaughtered by Gazetta.
Picking up on their coverage, The Sun reports:
The brutal marking system from the daily often cited by Football Italia’s James Richardson branded one Rangers player ‘A DISASTER’ and barely granted ANY pass-marks to the visitors at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
Gazzetta gave the same verdict to Harry Cochrane of Hearts following the Jambos’ Conference League defeat to Fiorentina a fortnight ago.
But Ben Davies was next to be branded ‘un disastro’ for his role in Napoli’s opening two goals in the first quarter of an hour and Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s set-up slated as “fearful”.
Branded ‘The Worst’, former Liverpool defender Davies was rated 4.5 and headlined ‘ a disaster’.
His performance summarised: “The disastrous test of the central English (sic), who never manages to find the right fit on Simeone, who is always able to cut behind him. He never manages to find a solution to the contrary.”
Teenager Leon King alongside him was also not spared and handed a similar score, with only Malik Tillman and Allan McGregor rated 6.
On Tuesday Ajax visit Ibrox with the homeside 90 minutes away from a complete whitewash from their first ever Champions League appearance.
Lose 2-0 and they are officially the worst team ever to play in the UCL.
Come on Ajax!!!!!
And they go pops on tuesday night when ajax go to cheating liebrox i hope they take about 5 off them and then see what the media say the follow morning in there papers and i expect our jounralists to write the truth about the scum in blue aye right ill crack the jokes Aberdeen are in glasgow today at liebrox so lets see what the reds can do to them but sevco have n.walsh as the ref s.mclean as the VAR man so its 13 blues against 11 reds can wait to see if mclean can spot any hand balls in the box for sevco all eyes on walsh and cheating mclean thats afact fucking RATS