It was a game of two halves, and at the end it was Napoli who was able to beat Lazio 4-1 due to a great second half performance. Maurizio Sarri spoke with Sky Sport after the match, "Mertens scored a world class goal. A brilliant goal, beautiful. This player continues to grow and at this moment he is really becoming world class. I want that he stays like an animal hungry for goals. I expected more difficulties, they are in a great physical and mental state and honestly in the first half we went down due to a dirty situation. But the squad was in the game, I didn't have bad feelings. In fact at half time I tried to transmit these feelings to them. We could make the result right in the second half. And then they corrected it in 10 minutes, they performed even better than I thought."
He continued with his analysis of the match, "For the goal by De Vrij we had enough people in the box, but we could have done better to guard Immobile before, but we let him turn towards goal. In the final part, Albiol went to cover the first ball, and maybe there was too much distance between him and Jorginho. Mertens was held in the summer? For my part it was a bit of good luck. Milik got hurt and I look for solutions and found this one. But from there to think that he could become this type of striker passes. And I become sorry that he found this out at 30 years old."
