Lorenzo Insigne missed a penalty in Napoli’s Supercoppa Italiana loss to Juventus, but his coach would not pin the defeat on him.
After he missed an opportunity to equalise from the penalty spot, Gennaro Gattuso urged Lorenzo Insigne not to blame himself for the loss to Juventus by Napoli’s Supercoppa Italiana.
Insigne sent Wojciech Szczesny the wrong way but fired the left-hand post woefully wide.
Gattuso declined to blame Insigne, but the forward’s miss saw him spurn the opportunity to score his 100th Napoli goal.
“I have to thank my players, as they did what we needed to. They were a little timid, especially in the first half, but reacted to the goal,” Gattuso told RAI Sport.
“These things can happen, I congratulate them on their efforts. We could’ve done something more perhaps, but we know these situations are difficult.”
“In such an important game, you can have a little bad luck and that includes a missed penalty, but the save on Lozano at the 94th minute was incredible.”
“We win and lose with everyone in the team, Lorenzo mustn’t think we lost because of him, as that’s just not true.”
