GOAL OF BARCELONA
Minute 45 PT. With Messi recovered but still in pain, Suárez stands in front of the ball. The Uruguayan chooses an open shot and Ospina, the crusader. The ball kisses the net up, against the angle.
Penalty for Barcelona
Minute 43 PT. The VAR advises Cüneyt Çakır to observe the play on the monitor and the referee decides to charge a penalty.
Kick Messi and a penalty?
Minute 40 PT. Messi fights for the ball with Koulibaly in the area and manages to get his leg to try to steal the ball. At that moment, in a very fast play, the defender does not observe this situation and in his attempt to reject it he hits the Argentine hard, which requires medical attention. The VAR defines whether it charges a penalty.
From Messi’s no goal to Napoli’s chance
Minute 36 PT. Insigne takes charge of a free kick on the left side of the field but his center does not find an accurate shot from any teammate. And Barcelona quickly build one against that does not prosper.
THE VAR CANCELS THE SECOND TO MESSI
Minute 32 PT. The VAR takes its time but decides, finally, to cancel Messi’s second. They judged that, after lowering his chest, the Argentine touched the ball with his arm, something that is not observed in the repetition.
GOAL OF BARCELONA! OR NOT?
Minute 30 PT. When the goal was denied to Luis Suárez, due to a great save by Ospina, the ball ended up being left to Messi, who lowered it with his chest and shot the Napoli goalkeeper hand in hand, with a left-footed shot at the near post. But the VAR checks it for a supposed hand.
And now that?
Minute 28 PT. With a 2-0 before half of the first half, Barcelona dominates the tie 3-1. Napoli now needs two goals: if they do, they will get a ticket to Lisbon for the advantage of away goals.
GOAL OF BARCELONA! GOAL OF MESSI!
Minute 23 PT. Messi faced, collided with Mario Rui and fell. The ball was left behind but, despite being surrounded by rivals, he recovered it and took his left-footed shot falling down that got next to the far post before a sterile stretch from Ospina. Leo did not give up and ended up drawing a goal.
Naples needs a goal
Minute 20 PT. Barcelona is putting Napoli behind, who did not have the weight again in the first minutes. A new offside, this time from Fabian Ruiz, prevents an attacking arrival of the visit that needs to convert a goal to force extra time and penalties.
Advantage Barcelona
Minute 15 PT. Despite the good start of Napoli, mainly due to the offensive weight of Mertens, it is Barcelona that scores on their first occasion. The centrals went up in the first corner and it was the Frenchman Lenglet who won his position and with a clean and accurate header beat Ospina.
GOAL OF BARCELONA!
Minute 10 PT. Lenglet fights with his marker – with an apparent push – and jumps only to score 1-0 with a head after Rakitic’s corner. Although the VAR reviews it, the referee confirms the goal.
Offside de Mertens
Minute 8 PT. Napoli gets dangerously close to Ter Stegen’s area again. Although the play is invalidated by Mertens’ advanced position, Zielinski tries on goal. It goes over the crossbar.
They surround Messi
Minute 5 PT. Between four players they chase Messi in his attempt to step on the area, in a play that ends in a corner that does not put Napoli in trouble. Gattuso set an iron mark for the Argentine.
Warn Napoli
Minute 2 PT. Despite the high pressure from Barcelona, Napoli generated the first chance to score. After an overflow to the left, Piqué cannot reject and the ball remains for Mertens, who does not connect it well and his shot against Ter Stegen goes out.
Kicked off the game
Minute 0 PT. The Turkish Cüneyt Çakır whistles the start of the duel. Barcelona has the advantage of the visitor’s goal after 1-1 in Italy.
Minute of silence
To the anthem of the Champions League and the draw, the Camp Nou is further silenced with the minute of silence in tribute to the fatalities in the world by COVID-19.
To the court
Three minutes before the time set for the start of the game, the arbitration team takes the field, followed by the Barcelona players in single file. Moments later, those of Napoli appear, with the alternative white shirt.
The substitutes are ready
The Barcelona and Napoli players who are not starters take their places in the Camp Nou stalls, on the substitute benches, with social distancing due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
To the changing rooms
15 minutes before the start of the game, the players from Barcelona and Napoli finished with the warm-up on the field of play. At 16 o’clock the rematch of the round of 16 will start. There is only room for one in Lisbon.
Preheating started
The archers Ter Stegen (Barcelona) and Ospina (Napoli) were the first to go out onto the Camp Nou pitch, 40 minutes before the start of the second leg for the Champions League round of 16. The series is 1-1.
The threat of Napoli
Dries Mertens, author of the Neapolitan goal in the first leg, is one of the top scorers in the current Champions League, with six goals. Will you dial again?
Very different histories
While Barcelona have won their last 12 knockout knockout stages, Napoli looking to get into the quarter-finals for the first time.
Without Busquets or Arturo Vidal
Setién replaced with De Jong and Rakitic two key pieces of the Catalan midfield: the Chilean Vidal had been sent off 89 minutes into the first leg in San Paolo, while the Spanish was left out due to accumulation of cards. Exactly, that should be taken care of today Griezmann, Semedo and Messi, who, if they are cautioned and qualify, will not be able to play in Lisbon in the quarterfinals.
Messi’s numbers
In the Champions League, Leo accumulates 114 goals in 141 games since his debut in 2004 in the maximum European competition, where he raised four Orejonas (2005/06, 2008/9, 2010/11 and 2014/15). In addition, he has scored 33 of them in his last 28 knockout phase matches at home.
Setién is firm
“It does not occur to me that it is my last game“Said the Barcelona coach in the previous match and reaffirmed that he is” calm. “” We have thoroughly prepared the game thinking that we will continue and that we will be able to face the rest until the final in Portugal with the same enthusiasm and energy that I have now and that we all have, “he added.
Napoli 11
Ospina; Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Fabian, Demme, Zielinski; Callejón, Mertens, Badge.
The 11 of Barcelona
Ter Stegen; Semedo, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Rakitic, De Jong, Sergi Roberto; Messi, Suárez and Griezmann, Setién’s chosen ones for the rematch with Napoli.
Everyone at the Camp Nou
An hour and a half before the start of the game, Napoli arrived at the stadium in the bus that took him from the hotel. The Barcelona players, meanwhile, did it a while before in their private vehicles.
“Thank you”
As part of the UEFA campaign, Napoli also changed their shirt. Unlike Barcelona -which will carry it on the shield-, the thanks of the Italian club will be on the sleeve.
Barcelona is “unbeatable” at the Camp Nou
Barcelona accumulates 35 games without losing at the Camp Nou in the Champions League, with an average of 31 wins and 4 draws. This streak is the second best in the history of the tournament – which includes the European Cup -, behind Bayern Munich’s 43 games between 1969 and 1991.
Bad streak out of Naples
Napoli’s previous two away appearances in the Champions League knockout round ended badly, both in the round of 16. In 2012, after winning 3-1 at home, Chelsea prevailed with the same result in London and took the finish to extra time, where Ivanovic converted the final 4-1. Then, in 2017, Real Madrid won 3-1 in the first leg and repeated the score in Italy, closing the series with an overwhelming 6-2.
The unforgiving Barcelona
The Catalan team overcame their last 19 Champions League qualifiers in which they did not lose the first leg. To find that defeat that left him out of the tournament, we have to go back to April 2003, when they drew 1-1 in the first leg with Juventus, which later beat them 2-1 in extra time at the Camp Nou.
“How to climb Everest”
Gennaro Gattuso, the Napoli coach, compared facing Barcelona to climbing Everest in the press conference prior to the Champions League match. “We will try to do it with our game idea,” he stressed.
Barcelona’s special jersey
To his classic blaugrana, Barcelona will wear a limited edition jersey in the momentous match with Napoli. On the shield is written a “gràcies” in thanking the essential professionals who took the lead during the new coronavirus pandemic.
There is always a first time
This will be the first visit of Napoli, Diego Maradona’s flagship team, to the Camp Nou for official continental tournaments. You have to travel to 2009 to find a rookie who wins at the home of Barcelona. It was Rubin Kazan, who surprised locals and strangers by winning 2-1 on the road.
What’s next
The winner will be measured in the quarterfinals against the winner of the cross between Bayern Munich and Chelsea, who will also meet this Saturday, in Germany, at the same time. In the first leg, the Bavarian team won 3-0.
The way, there far and long ago
The match, a rematch of the one played last February 25 in Italy that ended 1 to 1, before the break forced by the coronavirus pandemic, will take place this Saturday from 4 p.m. (Argentina time) at the Camp Nou, with the arbitration of the Turkish Cuneyt Cakir and televising of the ESPN 2 signal.
The previous
Barcelona, with Lionel Messi as the standard, will try to beat Napoli of Italy this Saturday at home, in the revenge match of the knockout stages of the Champions League, the maximum goal that remains for the Catalan club in an opaque season in which it has not He won the Spanish League or the Copa del Rey.
