Even with those problems, they managed to draw with Barcelona. I don't think Barcelona have any serious problems that prevent them from winning, at least they are playing better than Napoli. Napoli are awful this season, as their play shows, I'll be surprised if they go any further
I won't underestimate Napoli because they managed to draw the match at home. Their performance may not be as good in league games, but they are performing very well in the Champions League, and if they wish, they can eliminate Barcelona at this point because what Barcelona played against them will not be sufficient to hold them back and prevent them from progressing to the next round of the competition when they repeat the same in the day of the second leg. If I were to rate each of their performances this season, I would give them the same score, even though Barcelona is in a better position in the standings than Napoli. My score could be attributed to the competitive nature of each league which I feel that of Serie A is more harder to play in than that of La Liga.
I predict Napoli will be eliminated after the second leg match, I compared it to when Napoli played in the first leg, there was nothing special and they can only make 1 shot on target even though they were playing at home and the goal was lucky. I can't imagine what Napoli will do in the second leg match and Barcelona as the home team is certainly more aggressive than the first leg match, I'm a little doubtful that Napoli can score a goal.
That's exactly what i was thinking about arsenal. This club was not even capable enough to perform better in the UCL nor serie a. Napoli has become main obstacle for barcelona in the upcoming game to qualify for the next stage. Im seeing barcelona as a team that will be getting a lot of benefits from the next leg.
Barcelona will have so many advantages compared to the napoli. Considering the current circumstances, I'm not very confident that Napoli will make it to the next stage. It appears that if playing at home was very often boosting the confidence of barcelona. This is gonna be the main problem that will be so hard to be solved by napoli.
It's caused by it wil be mentally tested when it will face barcelona away. Barcelona was not a good form but that's enough to beat napoli when it will play at home. Barcelona's odds is not that good like my expectation but i think that barcelona must only becareful when napoli play passively against it.
The major weakness of barcelona was a passive strategy like what used by mourinho. It was very often making barcelona feel so desperate to score. This is also forcing barcelona to perform even better compared to the first leg.
Barcelona has very big chance to get a ticket to go to the next round. I can't fuckin wait to see barcelona will continue to fight against napoli soon. Things are going even harder for napoli.