McTominay ready to be crowned King of Naples

In all of his laser -controlled focus, Scott McTominay must have dreamed of the scenes that could develop in Naples this weekend.

When he returned to the city from a 0-0 draw in Parma last weekend, the Scots’ car was surrounded by an Armada of Horns-Rollern, shortly after thousands of worshiped fans greeted the team with flags and torches.

If this corresponds to the result of the new hero of Naples, which almost derails the club’s title offer, you can only imagine how he will receive the reply if you should win the title of Serie A at home to Cagliari on Friday evening.

An Mctominay shrine has already appeared in the city center, and it is only a matter of time before he finds his image on the walls of the Spanish district, the spiritual home of the Napoli Fandom with his legendary Diego Maradona wall paintings and dozens of other works of art that solve the past.

In the past nine months, Mctominay Mania has swept into the Bay of Naples like a sea storm.

A fan tattooed his leg with the nickame ‘McFratm’ of the midfielder – a pun in the Neapolitan dialect, which means ‘McBro’ – while Italian journalists greeted him as a “man of fate” and “Total footballer” after he had sincerely drawn a nervous team into a nervous team in the past few weeks.

Scott McTominay has become a star man in Napoli since Manchester United moved

The goals and templates of the Scotsman have brought the Italian club in the edge of Series A title

Mctominay’s face decorates a shrine in the football town of Naples in Naples

There is hardly any arguments that Napoli should win her fourth Scudetto on Friday evening, or the result of Inter in Como, Mctominay is considered a driving force.

His eleven goals and six templates are a common number of record number for a midfielder in one season in the series in which this century is a series in series per century. Two more than Kaka actually made it.

Under the head coach Antonio Conte, McTominay, who encouraged the 28-year-old to get out of midfield, where his playful ability examines.

In April, the former star of Manchester United scored five of the six goals from Napoli in three victories in a row before scored both goals in a 2-2 draw with Genoa. He not only scored goals, but also decisive goals, with seven of his strikes being unlocked goalless games.

Now the day of the recent day is waiting. In contrast to two years, when Luciano Spalletti’s Napoli surrounded the competition to win the first title of the club since Maradona was in his pomp with five games, this has been going on.

Napoli are one point ahead. When you lose and undergo, we will look at the first Scudetto playoff since the 1960s and only the second. At the end of the season it would be as good as possible.

Neapolitan nerves have already been tested in the past two weeks. The team was captured against Genoa and Parma on back-to-back differences, which they could have cost expensive.

Fortunately for them it didn’t. Last Sunday Lazios veteran wing player Pedro picked up twice with 2-2 draws. He became an unlikely Neapolitan hero for the night, since pictures of the Spaniard, who mocked, was posted when a saint was posted in the city.

Scotland International McTominay evaluates a spectacular header against Monza

This flag shows that Scott McTominay has become a saint in his adopted city

McTominays Scot, Billy Gilmour, top left, also played an important role in the title offer

This penultimate round was a real roller coaster ride without 90 minutes, including red tickets for Conte and Inter boss Simone Inzaghi, which are now suspended for the last day.

To say that tickets for Napoli’s final game are required, it would be as to say that Maradona had a half decent left foot. Half a million inquiries were made to have sold out the Stadio Maradona 10 times.

The preparations are in progress for another city -wide party, with huge screens being built throughout the city to transmit the game and an open bus parade planned.

Now it is up to the players. “We have the bone in our mouth and must not let it go,” said Conte, who described a potential scudetto as “historical and unimaginable”. He expected his debut campaign to be a transition after the embarrassing title defense last season ended with a 10th place and no European football.

The star striker Victor Ossimhen left sharp circumstances last summer before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was sold to Paris Saint Germain in January and was not replaced.

Absence from Europe turned out to be a blessing in the disguise, and Conte insisted that we were unable to do this if we had played in his squad every three days due to a lack of depth.

Napoli still invested quite strongly last summer and, Romelu Lukaku, Alessandro Buongiorno and David Neres, committed to considerable fees, not to mention the Scottish midfield duo from Mctominay and Billy Gilmour.

A title requirement still seemed to be a distance, even for a trainer who was about to become the first man, Serie A with three different clubs (according to Juventus and Inter) and won the tenth time as a player and trainer.

McTominay’s dominance in midfield has proven to be crucial for Antonio Cons Team

McTominay admires the statue of another Napoli hero, the late Diego Maradona

It is another goal for the productive Mctominay when he celebrates Como in the sword

Conte’s success was built on a collective effort. The Napoli from 2024-25 were not almost as entrepreneurial as the entertainers from two years ago, but they were ruthlessly efficient, with their defense assuming an attack that only grants the common fifth for the goals.

The trainer has made no secret of how hard he found this season.

‘(The title) would repay me for everything that I have been able to do this year. I went beyond my limits, «said Conte.

What seemed “unimaginable” for Conte is now at a touch. A fourth Scudetto for this football Mad would write Mctominay and Conte’s names in Club-Folklore.

But of course not just you.

Gilmour also played his role. The playmaker may not have had the same influence as his compatriot, but his contribution in the second half of the season was the key to maintaining his hot start. When Conte needed his reinforcements to increase in the past few months, Gilmour and Giacomo Raspadori did exactly that.

However, there is little doubt that Mctominay will be the focus of safe celebration if Napoli should do the job.

It would also set an exclamation mark at the end of an extraordinary success story for Italy’s constantly growing Scottish contingent this season.

Lewis Ferguson led Bologna to her first trophy for 51 years in Coppa Italia, Che Adams, in Turin, Liam Henderson became an Empoli Centurion and Josh Doig won the title of series B with Sassuolo.

Now it is on Mctominay and Gilmour to win the largest price of everyone and to achieve unembolitan immortality.