Scott McTominay is feeling the love in Napoli after achieving a "dream" Serie A title success.

Former Manchester United man McTominay has excelled in his first season in Italy.

Fittingly, McTominay got the opening goal as Napoli beat Cagliari 2-0 on Friday to edge out Inter in a title race that ran down to the wire.

McTominay ended his season with 16 league goal involvements (12 goals, four assists) - only one midfielder has been involved in as many goals in his first season in the Italian top-flight in the last 20 editions of the tournament: Hernanes in 2010-11 (16).

The 28-year-old scooped the prize of Serie A's MVP, and told DAZN: "The sacrifice of every single player in this group is just incredible. The people deserve it, as they’ve been behind us from day one. For me to come here and experience this, it’s just a dream.

"My Italian is OK, I can understand, but speaking it takes more confidence and it’s not easy.

"It is much easier to do it with people who don’t speak any English. I can feel a lot of love."

Napoli have scored 59 goals in Serie A this term, setting a new record for the fewest goals scored by a title-winning team.

Antonio Conte, meanwhile, is the second coach to win the Scudetto in his debut season as Napoli coach after Alberto Bigon in 1989-90.

Conte has won his fifth Scudetto as a coach in Serie A (after the three with Juventus between 2011-12 and 2013-14 and the title with Inter in 2020-21), second only to Giovanni Trapattoni (seven) and Massimiliano Allegri (six) – five also Marcello Lippi and Fabio Capello.

"It happened again, and it’s something wonderful," said Conte, who served a touchline suspension on Friday.

"When we got to the stadium, it was honestly difficult to get in, as I don’t know how many people were there. I had a slight thought, if we let these people down, it’d be something we carried with us for a long time.

"All the credit goes to the boys. Winning in Naples is difficult, these boys are doing it for the second time in two years.

"They are serious boys, you don't leave in a team that always plays to win."