I understand Sevilla are champions, and are a good football team but Benitez is the better manager. Forget experience, he is easily the best manager out of the four remaining. And Fiorentina are a team Napoli smacked around recently and are also a bunch of cats that they know. It all makes sense for Benitez to finish off what started off as a crap season, as winners of the UEFA Cup and put them back in the Champions League.
Napoli really I felt were the team to challenge Juventus. I have no time for Roma and Garcia and Lazio have just overachieved based on who they have. So it was really guys like Hamsik, Higuain and my boy Insigne who I thought would offer a challenge to the Turin kings....but they got caught in the pit-lane by fubaring their season after failing to qualify for the Champions League knockouts.
But Benitez knows how to get things right and is about winning rather than offering some wengeritis stew. Now, the team are clicking, they have an outside(ish) chance of getting in the top two but Rafa sees their best chance of doing so by winning this Uefa Cup trophy that has finally been given a boost by the winners qualifying for the big one.
My (virtual) money is on them to do so, and I expect them to face Sevilla, which I suppose is the "better" final, and he may not have been back home for a monute, but he still does know Spanish football and how to exploit it.
HH
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