Juventus 2, Napoli 0: no player or coach has explained the defeat

We have no quotes to report from Turin. Nothing from a player or a coach is in the material available to us, and we will not put words in anyone's mouth.

The facts already say a lot. Napoli held Juventus at 0-0 for 70 minutes. Then Alajbegovic broke the deadlock and, five minutes later, Marianucci was sent off. From the 75th minute Napoli played with ten men.

Boga made it 2-0 in the 87th minute, 12 minutes after the red card. Any explanation that does not start from that sequence does not hold up. Whoever speaks to the microphones will have to deal with those minutes.

The bench

Massimiliano Allegri was suspended, so he was not in Turin. He returns to the touchline for the Lazio game. Supporters want to know about a management of the match that failed at the decisive moment.

With a fragile defence and the game slipping away late on, that is the debate already under way. Reading the night as a one-off would be a mistake. Napoli are eighth with 14 points after ten rounds, and this 2-0 simply confirms the table.

Next up: Porto

Napoli travel to Porto on Wednesday 4 November for a Champions League match at the Estadio do Dragao, kick-off 21:00 CET (20:00 UK, 15:00 ET). It is a competition of its own.

They arrive from Turin with one question unanswered: who answers for this game? When Allegri, Marco Landucci or the players speak, we will report their words under their names and set them against what we saw on the pitch.