Societa Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is an Italian professional football club based in Naples, Campania that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. Napoli have won two Serie A titles, six Coppa Italia titles, two Supercoppa Italiana titles, and one UEFA Cup.
Napoli vs Barcelona: 2nd leg| Head to Head| Results
2nd Leg:
Barcelona cruised into the last 16 of the Europa League on Thursday after comfortably seeing off Napoli 4-2 to go through 5-3 on aggregate in a serious show of force.
The Catalan giants were on top almost from the off in Naples thanks to Jordi Alba expertly finishing a lightning counter-attack from a Napoli corner, and Frenkie de Jong’s superb long range effort effectively ended the tie with three quarters of the match to play.
Xavi’s thrilling side could have had more before Lorenzo Insigne briefly gave the hosts hope from the penalty spot mid-way through the first half, and Gerard Pique made absolutely sure there would be no Napoli comeback on the stroke of half-time.
Head to Head:
Napoli wins: 0
Draws: 2
Barcelona wins: 1
Napoli XI: Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Fabian, Demme; Elmas, Zielinski, Insigne; Osimhen.
Subs: Ospina, Ghoulam, Juan, Zanoli, Mertens, Ounas, Petagna, Politano, Idasiak.
Barcelona XI: Ter Stegen; Dest, Pique, Araujo, Alba; Pedri, Busquets, F. De Jong; Torres, Aubameyang, Adama.
Subs: Neto, Puig, Dembele, Braithwaite, L. De Jong, Mingueza, Garcia, Nico, Gavi, Tenas.
Results:
Only a Ferran Torres penalty could save Xavi’s side from defeat in the first leg of the play-off tie, leaving the clash all square at 1-1 after a Piotr Zielinski opener.
Having failed to make it out of their Champions League group, Barcelona are actually unbeaten in their last five games and new signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hit a hat-trick in a big win at Valencia over the weekend.
Barcelona are scoring goals for fun at the moment, but are shaky at the back against a team on a run of three consecutive 1-1 draws. Expect this one to go all the way.
