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Benitez sees Napoli clash with Juventus as decisive

Napoli coach Rafa Benitez admits victory over Juventus today could be decisive in their season.

Napoli fought back twice to grab a 2-2 draw against Juventus in the Italian Super Cup in December, eventually winning via a penalty shoot-out.

"It is an important game and if we win then there will be a lot of talk around us," said the Coach in his Press conference.

"The message must always be the same, though: take it one game at a time, then we'll see if we get consistent results.

"We want to win this match against a top level opponent. In order to do that, we must understand what happened in previous games, where we drew and lost too many.

"We must learn to control the game when we are in front, but we did show more character recently against Parma, Juve and Cesena. We can do better, but it's already two or three steps forward from before. The performance against Cesena was a show of maturity."

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