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Conte talks about the De Bruyne incident again: Some things can be tolerated once, but the second time cannot

4:13pm, 1 October 2025Football

Hupu September 30th Napoli will face Portugal Sports at home in the second round of the first phase of the Champions League. Before the game, Napoli coach Conte accepted an interview with Italy Sky Sports.

Conte said in an interview:

"It was an important game, the opponent was a very good team, and Portugal won the league championship. They represented the top level of Portuguese football with Benfica and Porto. We lost against Manchester City, but it was a special game because Di Lorenzo was sent off. Our preparation time was very limited, and we returned from Milan very late: the players who played yesterday had resumed training."

"Why? We conducted a very in-depth analysis of the game, and the conclusion was: we played better in this game than we did last year against Milan. Although we won last year, the process was very difficult, and this time we took the initiative, but we didn't do it like in the past That's enough to focus. We have to do better in certain situations and improve ourselves. "

Talking about Spinazzola and Oliveira:

"Yesterday they had a deformed training alone, and today we'll look at it again: If you need to take risks, you have to take risks, because we don't have many choices. The alternative may be to let Elmas play fullback."

Finally Conte talked about the incident of de Bruyne being dissatisfied with substitutions against Milan:

"This is not a separate situation for a certain player, and anyone who knows me knows what I think of certain behaviors. My duty is to restore order and reiterate some principles: Some things are tolerated the first time, but not the second time."

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