carl_feedthegoat wrote:BlueinBosnia wrote:Chinners wrote:Justified logic wrote:Two club record goal scorer records to be broken. The other is Hamsik...
Marek Hamsik is putting Diego Maradona’s Napoli goal record to the back of his mind to prime himself for facing ‘one of the strongest teams in Europe’ in Manchester City. Napoli travel to the Etihad Stadium in the Champions League on Tuesday night with their captain one goal away from becoming the club’s all-time record goalscorer. Slovak midfielder Hamsik, 30, has notched 114 goals for the Serie A frontrunners to take him within sight of the 115 Maradona hit between 1984-1991
Blimmy, that's quite impressive from Hamsik
He's been with them for over a decade, in fairness, and 115 goals is hardly unachievable.
Got to say, I'm surprised their all-time goalscoring record is so low - is there historically some kind of cultural difference where players didn't stay with clubs for as long in Italy as they did in England until the second half of the 20th century? (Napoli being formed relatively recently may also be a factor here)
Im not surprised as Italian games rarely end in anything other than a 1-0 (probably a little exaggerated) but do you ever see high scoring games over there over the course of the season ?
that's pretty much a solid note.
also, to Bib's, that has been traditionally worked for steady "Big Fishes" only: the 2 clubs from the business capital (milan) and the FIAT group's own toy, by legislative "catho-socialist" tradition also backed, compulsorily, by the whole body of taxpayers!
Rome's and Naples, on the contrary, have been living regular up & down ages, resulting in inconsistent stats, similar to those"green in regulation" on a windy morning at Carnoustie
