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Napoli manager Luciano Spalletti hilariously broke the fourth wall in his side’s 6-1 dismantling against Ajax as his season continues to improve.
Napoli tore their Dutch opponents to pieces in the Champions League group stage clash, but an early equalizer from Italian striker Giacomo Raspadori left Spaletti channeling his inside Michael Scott.
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Spalletti turned to the camera in the most impassive manner
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And makes hilarious gestures despite the game being linked
The veteran coach turned to a camera next to his dugout, with what Corriere dello Sport called a T-gesture, theorizing it could have meant ‘time out’ due to the impressive form of his attacker.
More likely though, he was the one to point the score to 1-1, but either way, it was reminiscent of a scene from The Office and showed just how much Spalletti is enjoying his record-breaking start to the season.
Raspadori, meanwhile, looks like the solution to Italy’s attacking slump with two Nations League goals, adding to the already solid results of Roberto Mancini’s side.
And he’s now doing it for Napoli too, with the Serie A giants in frankly unstoppable form.
Topping their domestic league with six wins and two draws from eight games, the side continued that streak in the Champions League where they have a 100 per cent record in Group A, which also includes six-time champions Liverpool. Europe.
After humiliating Jurgen Klopp’s Reds 4-1 at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, they followed that up by crushing Rangers 3-0, and now tearing Ajax 6-1 apart.
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Napoli left Ajax in ruins
The victory was not only Napoli’s biggest in the Champions League, but Ajax’s heaviest defeat in any competition since November 1964.
Napoli are also the first Italian side to score more than ten goals in their first three Champions League games of the season, with their 13 goals so far in 2022/23 the most of any team.
The incredible start to the season is even more surprising when you consider that Napoli have lost some of their best players this season, with club legends Lorenzo Insigne and Dries Mertens, while key defender Kalidou Koulibaly left for Chelsea, and Fabian Ruiz joined Paris Saint-Germain.
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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been in such unstoppable shape that he has earned the nickname “Kvaradona”
New faces have made a huge difference though, with ex-Fulham man Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa a star in midfield along with ex-Tottenham man Tanguy Ndombele.
But it’s up front where the real magic happens, with Georgian winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia earning the nickname ‘Kvaradona’ due to his incredible dribbling and goal-scoring ability.
Spalletti is a veteran of Italian football having managed Inter Milan, Roma, Udinese and Empoli since taking the dugout in 1994, but with just two Coppa Italia to his name so far he are plenty of reasons to believe this season could be his best yet.
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