With a victory over AC Milan on Tuesday, Serie A leaders Napoli extended their remarkable winning streak.
Although manager Antonio Conte can no longer dismiss the possibility of winning the Scudetto title, returning to European football remains the primary goal.
Napoli has now won nine league games without a loss after defeating San Siro 2-0.
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They now lead the league by seven points ahead of Inter Milan, who will host Empoli on Wednesday.
Conte is still working to manage expectations at the club after Napoli’s poor championship defence last season prevented them from playing in Europe this season.
“Scudetto? No one is hiding. We see realistically what we are doing this year,” he told DAZN.
“After 10 games it has something of the incredible and unexpected, not even the craziest would have predicted it.
“But we remain with our feet on the ground.
“We know what our goal is, which is to return to Europe.
“But there are five or six teams that have the same idea.
“Winning in Naples would be something incredible. We have given ourselves three years.
” We are rebuilding something and it takes time.”
After such an impressive start, Conte knows it will be hard to stop the Napoli supporters thinking of another title success.
“We try to feed the dreams of the fans, but we need to have balance,” Conte added.
“Our fans followed us with passion even today, it is right that they dream.
“We have to be prepared when there is some setback.
“We want to make the Neapolitan fans proud of this team.”