Posted by Guardian 91 days ago
• 'Chelsea might have bigger names, but not the inspiration'• 'Chelsea's defence is a masterpiece of disorderliness'Gazzetta dello Sport described it as "extraordinary normality". A team such as Napoli – one with a wage bill a fraction the size of Europe's elite and who were playing their football in Italy's third tier as recently as 2006 – should not be able to defeat Chelsea as easily as they did on Tuesday night. And yet it did not come as a total surprise when they did."If you had said six months ago that Napoli would beat Chelsea 3-1, it would have been time to dial [Italy's medical emergency number] 118," writes Marco Ansaldo in La Stam...
