Tonight Napoli
will play the most important and prestigious of its recent history game. To the
knockout stage of the Champions League
we had already arrived in 2012, but tonight playing the second leg of the first
knockout round against Real Madrid
at the San Paolo, at home, against the European champions and world champions
team and in front of about 57 thousand spectators.
Match Details:
Napoli vs. Real Madrid
Game 2: Champions
League Round of 16
Date: 07 March 2017,
2:45 PM
Stadium: Stadio San
Paolo
It will replace the 3-1 disadvantage accumulated in the first
game. It will be difficult, but not impossible: The last three teams who lost
3-1 the first leg away to a knockout round of the Champions League are then able to qualify by winning the second leg
at home.
Although lower on paper, Naples continues to be one of the
most interesting and entertaining teams in Europe play very well, has a rose
full of talent and can rely on the excellent condition of some of its most
important players. The last day of the season, also winning away against AS
Roma ended a short series of negative results. The team then comes to the game
tonight at its best, and with nothing to lose.
In the first leg, the match played on February 15, Napoli had gone in the eighth minute
lead with a shot of Lorenzo Insigne, goalkeeper of Real had become unprepared
and out of position. Real had equalized ten minutes later with a header from
Karim Benzema.
The second goal of Real
had scored Toni Kroos while the third was scored in the 54th minute from
Brazilian midfielder Casemiro with a great volley from outside the area. In the
last twenty minutes of the match Napoli had tried to move on offense to score
at least one more goal ahead of the return game.