After their impressive weekend showing in Serie A, Napoli will turn their attention to their quest to secure a place in the quarter-finals of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League.
The Partenopei responded to just their second loss of the Serie A season by comfortably beating Atalanta last time, increasing their gap at the summit to 18 points. A first Scudetto since 1990 now looks like a formality, so they can turn their attention to reaching the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League (UCL) for the first time in their history.
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After a dominant 2-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg, Luciano Spalletti’s men are firmly in the driver’s seat ahead of the return fixture. The hosts have lost just one home game by a three-goal margin since 2013, so they will be confident of another dominant home win here.
Eintracht Frankfurt travel to Naples amidst a four-game winless run (D2, L2), with the Eagles’ latest setback coming in a 1-1 draw against relegation-threatened Stuttgart in the Bundesliga last weekend.
Coach Oliver Glasner believes his side is ‘capable of extraordinary achievements’, and their positive record against Italian sides on the continental stage suggests they could pull another rabbit out of the hat (W5, D2, L3). First, however, they travel to Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, a Stadium where no one has beaten Napoli in the UCL since 2017 (W8, D3).
Although the German outfit saw two of their three group-stage victories come on the road, they’re the lowest scorers still left in the competition (GF: 7), so overturning a two-goal deficit appears unlikely.
Meanwhile, Napoli’s UCL matches average four goals per game this season – the second-highest among teams remaining in the competition. So we can expect an over 2.5 goals game this Wednesday in Naples.
