How do they get to the Champions League? The keys to Napoli's irregular performance

Little it remains of the Naples that, in the past season, surprised to all Italy doing with the Series To very soon. It left by behind to teams like Inter, AC Milan or Juventus headed by Spalletti and with Kvaratskhelia and Oshimen like main leading. It was a very reliable team, able to go through on of his rivals and that left very few doubts. It did not reach him in Europe, but in the domestic championship finish winning with more solvency of which any one expected .

In this course, the history has been very different and complicated for the Naples, that to day of today finds in the ninth position of the Series To and that only has won one of his last five parties. The irregularity has been the main ingredient of the team, especially in this 2024. Rudi García was the first destituido, in November, and Walter Mazzarri took the reins of the bench, but is to the edge of the dismissal. In fact, several sources suggested that they existed possibilities that it was 'fulminado' before the return to the Champions League, but finally have descartado the possibility.

'Duel' with a lot of details in the Champions League

The true, in any case, is that the Naples does not cross a moment that it invite to the optimism and has to be a factor that take advantage of a FC Barcelona that, although it is not in his moment more lúcido, has tools to be able to face the eliminatory with a 'small' advantage and with players like Robert Lewandowski or Ílkay Gündogan, that are in his best moment in what to statistics refers . The Pole, that only has marked a goal in League of Champions, sum three consecutive days seeing goal (4 goals) and annotated in the Glass of Rey (2) and Supercopa of Spain (2). A total of eight targets in what it goes of year.

Concentrating us in the Napoli, in this course has evidenciado a lot of problems in the defensive saga. The exit of Min, with destination to the Bayern, has been one of the detonantes of the low level that are offering to the hour of 'move away' the danger of the area. Rrahmani, Natan or Ostigard are not fulfilling with the expectations and is noticing in the quantity of goals fit.

Players to take in account by the Barça

In general lines, the Naples is a team that, although it has several stars in his payroll and that keeps to many of the players with which carried the 'Scudetto' in the last year, has left to have the brilliance that accustomed. It has influenced the absence of Oshimen in the attack, by his presence in the Glass of Africa, because all the responsibility has recaído in the boots of Kvaratskhelia and, although the georgiano already has showed to be one of the more 'effective' of Europe, the load is too big. With the return of the Nigerian, that finally yes will be available for the party, the history would have to be more 'simple'.

The Barça knows that it can do a lot of damage by the internal lanes and that it will be key that arrive a lot of balloons to the area, but will have to be slope of a Gave Lorenzo that it is one of the footballers more 'active' of the staff and that it is able to generate superiorities with very little 'terrain'. It is one of the strongest points of the Italian picture and of the combinations with the centre of the field, with Lobotka and Anguissa in the double pivote, can depend a lot the exit of balloon of the ones of Walter Mazzarri.