Napoli president De Laurentiis backs Conte over Coppa selection

Napoli were knocked out of the Coppa by Lazio in midweek.

“I agree with him, he was absolutely right to use 11 different players,” ADL said at a book meeting yesterday.

“It was a great training against Lazio and a life lesson for the team.

“We knew it wouldn't have been easy to change so much. If we had kept more of the usual XI it would have been a more balanced game.

“The coach had to give space to other players and that's what he did. The result doesn't matter. We can allow ourselves experiments, like Conte did against Lazio.”