BARCELONA booked their spot in the Europa League last-16 with a 5-3 aggregate win over Napoli in final 32 of the competition.
- RESULT: Napoli 2-4 Barcelona (3-5 on agg)
- Napoli XI: Meret, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Koulibaly, Mario Rui, Fabian, Demme, Elmas, Zielinski, Insigne, Osimhen
- Barcelona XI: Ter Stegen, Dest, Pique, Araujo, Sergio, Adama, Pedri, Jordi Alba, Ferran Torres, De Jong, Aubameyang
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Full time – Napoli 2-4 Barcelona (agg: 3-5)
And that’s a wrap in Naples!
The Catalan giants convincingly put Gli Azzurri to the sword scoring four on the night and five on aggregate.
Napoli 2-4 Barcelona – Gavi yellow card!
90+2 Gavi has gone in the book for a reckless challenge which will mean that he misses the first leg in Barcelona’s last 16 tie.
Three minutes of additional time has been added
Napoli 2-4 Barcelona
89. What an absolute waste.
Matteo Politano went for the quick corner, but none of his teammates were on the same wave length.
Napoli 2-4 Barcelona
88. Corner to Napoli..
Napoli 2-4 Barcelona
86. It looks as if the goal has come too little too late but stranger things have happened in football.
If Napoli get one more, it will be a tense ending for the Catalan giants.
Goal! – Hold your horses people because Politano has scored!
The substitute did well to weave in between Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba before digging out a powerful low strike into the bottom corner.
Fantastic finish from the Napoli attacker.
Could it be game on?
Napoli 2-4 Barcelona
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
80. There’s only 300 Barca fans in attendance but they are making all the noise at the Diego Armando Mardona Stadium.
A night to forget for Napoli.
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
76. More changes in the game but this time, for Xavi and co.
- Adama Traore – OFF
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – OFF
- Pedri – OFF
- Osumane Dembele – ON
- Nico Gonzalez – ON
- Luuk de Jong – ON
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
76. The game has gone completely flat now and it’s just a case of the time of ticking down.
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
72. Luciano Spalletti has made a double change and it looks more like a substitution to rest players rather than to overturn the deficit.
- Fabian Ruiz – OFF
- Victor Osimhen – OFF
- Faouzi Ghoulam – ON
- Adam Ounas – ON
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona – Great defending Pique!
70. Victor Osimhen seemed as if he was through on goal with all the time in the world.
But the experienced Spanish international just did enough to stop Osimhen from making it a somewhat awkward ending.
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
68. Excellent finish from Lorenzo Insigne but the flag quickly went up for offside.
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
66. Looking at the Napoli players attitude, you can tell that they believe the game has gone.
No real effort from anyone what so ever.
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
62. Sergio Busquets was booked in the celebrations for Pierre Emerick Aubameyang’s goal so Xavi decides to drag him from the match.
- Sergio Busquets – OFF
- Gavi – ON
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
60. That should be game, set and match now as Barcelona are beginning to run away with the tie.
Heart break for Napoli.
Goal! – Aubameyang gets on the scoring act!
It was reminiscent of the old Barcelona who put together some good build-up play before Adama Traore found Aubameyang in acres of space.
And without thinking too much about it, the Gabon forward smashed the ball home with a first time effort.
That’s four in two for the January signing now.
Napoli 1-4 Barcelona
Luciano is really losing it
The Napoli boss is going a-wall in the technical area as he tries to push his side to dig deeper.
Napoli 1-3 Barcelona – What a block Rrahmani!
53. Sergino Dest did well to dribble past a few players before delivering a superb ball into the box.
After a few deflections, it fell to the feet of Frankie de Jong who took a snap shot but Amir Rrahmani bravely through everything in front of the ball to stop it from going in.
Napoli 1-3 Barcelona – Chance wasted!
52. The ball perfectly rolled out to Pedri on the edge of the box and the Spaniard only had one thing in his mind.
That one thing was probably to lash the ball into the back of the net but instead, his effort went horribly wide.
Napoli 1-3 Barcelona
49. Sergei Karasev has been very lenient tonight
Kalidou Koulibaly planted himself in the ground completely blocking Adama Traore from making his run.
But the referee saw it as a fair challenge and waved play on
Napoli 1-3 Barcelona
47. The Catalan giants have picked up from where they left off by controlling most of the possession.
Napoli 1-3 Barcelona
45. One change to tell you about and it’s Luciano Spalletti who has made his first roll of the dice.
- Diego Demme – OFF
- Matteo Politano – ON
Second half – Napoli 1-3 Barcelona
We have returned from the interval ladies and gentleman which means we enter the last 45 minutes of this tie.
Remember people, the away goals rule has been scrapped by UEFA so it’s a straight shoot-out for whoever can score the most goals.
All the opening half statistics
Even though Barcelona are controlling the statistics on all fronts, the numbers don’t tell the whole story because Napoli have been very threatening going forward.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
