Napoli has slowed down in the last 4 rounds, however, when they ran too fast in the early stages of the season, they still officially won Serie A 2022-2023 5 rounds early. In the early morning of September 5 (Vietnam time), the 1-1 draw at Udinese was enough for Naples people to end 33 years of waiting...
Accordingly, Napoli won their first Serie A title since the late legendary Diego Maradona was captain - the 1989-1990 season. They won the championship when the 2022-2023 season still has 5 more rounds.
Coach Luciano Spalletti's team was too sublime in the first half of the season, having lost only 1 of 24 matches. They have won 65 points out of a total of 72 points they can have won during that time.
The leading position that Napoli has built is guaranteed, so even though their form has declined a bit since the beginning of March, it is still meaningless. Because with what happened, everyone understands that Scudetto returning to Naples is just a matter of when, not if.
Napoli have dropped more points in their last nine games than in their previous 24 games, but that doesn't matter. 1 point against Udinese was all they needed to Mathematically ensure that Lazio and Juventus could not catch up with them.
After being held to a draw by Salernitana in the previous match, the match at Udinese started worryingly when Sandi lovric took the home team's lead in the 13th minute. But Victor Osimhen's equaliser, his 22nd goal in Serie A this season, in the early stages of the second half, brought glory.
The legendary Maradona inspired Napoli to win the Serie A championship in 1987 and 1990. The club fell into a difficult period in the late 1990s and was pushed down to Serie C1 in 2004 after declaring bankruptcy.
But 3 years later, they returned to Serie A and gradually rose to the position of one of the strongest teams in the country.
They have almost touched the silver cup on several occasions, finishing second behind Juventus four times in 2012-2013, 2015-2016, 2017 2018 and 2018-2019.
But now Napoli has become the Italian champion. Even if Juventus get back 15 points, the gap is still too far (17 points) to stop Napoli.
Meanwhile, Lazio's efforts - beating Sassuolo 2-0 on Wednesday - have only forced Napoli fans to wait another day to celebrate...
